is succeeded by Mr.
Monroe.... Kentucky remonstrance.... Intemperate resolutions
of the people of that state.... General Wayne defeats the
Indians on the Miamis.... Insurrection in the western parts
of Pennsylvania.... Quelled by the prompt and vigorous
measures of the government.... Meeting of Congress....
President's speech.... Democratic societies.... Resignation
of Colonel Hamilton.... Is succeeded by Mr. Wolcott....
Resignation of General Knox.... Is succeeded by Colonel
Pickering.... Treaty between the United States and Great
Britain.... Conditionally ratified by the President.... The
treaty unpopular.... Mr. Randolph resigns.... Is succeeded
by Colonel Pickering.... Colonel M'Henry appointed secretary
of war.... Charge against the President rejected..... Treaty
with the Indians north-west of the Ohio.... With Algiers....
With Spain.... Meeting of Congress.... President's
speech.... Mr. Adet succeeds Mr. Fauchet..... The house of
representatives call upon the President for papers relating
to the treaty with Great Britain.... He declines sending
them.... Debates upon the treaty making power.... Upon the
bill for making appropriations to carry into execution the
treaty with Great Britain.... Congress adjourns.... The
President endeavours to procure the liberation of Lafayette.

{1794}

That the most material of those legislative measures on which the two
great parties of the United States were divided, might be presented in
one unbroken view, some transactions have been passed over, which will
now be noticed.

In that spirit of conciliation, which adopts the least irritating
means for effecting its objects, the President had resolved to bear
with the insults, the resistance, and the open defiance of Mr. Genet,
until his appeal to the friendship and the policy of the French
republic should be fairly tried. Early in January, this resolution was
shaken, by fresh proofs of the perseverance of that minister, in a
line of conduct, not to be tolerated by a nation, which has not
surrendered all pretensions to self government. Mr. Genet had
meditated, and deliberately planned, two expeditions to be carried on
from the territories of the United States, against the dominions of
Spain; and had, as minister of the French republic, granted
commissions to citizens of the United States, who were privately
recruitin