f enmity, which it had
occasioned. Accordingly, in the correspondence and other records of
the time, we catch some glimpses of him, which show that even after
Congress had passed the great amendments, and after their approval by
the States had become a thing assured, he still looked askance at the
administration, and particularly at some of the financial measures
proposed by Hamilton.[455] Nevertheless, as year by year went on, and
as Washington and his associates continued to deal fairly, wisely,
and, on the whole, successfully, with the enormous problems which they
encountered; moreover, as Jefferson and Madison gradually drew off
from Washington, and formed a party in opposition, which seemed to
connive at the proceedings of Genet, and to encourage the formation
among us of political clubs in apparent sympathy with the wildest and
most anarchic doctrines which were then flung into words and into
deeds in the streets of Paris, it happened that Patrick Henry found
himself, like Richard Henry Lee, and many another of his companions in
the old struggle against the Constitution, drawn more and more into
support of the new government.

In this frame of mind, probably, was he in the spring of 1793, when,
during the session of the federal court at Richmond, he had frequent
conversations with Chief Justice Jay and with Judge Iredell. The
latter, having never before met Henry, had felt great dislike of him
on account of the alleged violence of his opinions against the
Constitution; but after making his acquaintance, Iredell thus wrote
concerning him: "I never was more agreeably disappointed than in my
acquaintance with him. I have been much in his company; and his
manners are very pleasing, and his mind, I am persuaded, highly
liberal. It is a strong additional reason I have, added to many
others, to hold in high detestation violent party prejudice."[456]

In the following year, General Henry Lee, then governor of Virginia,
appointed Patrick Henry as a senator of the United States, to fill out
an unexpired term. This honor he felt compelled to decline.

In the course of the same year, General Lee, finding that Patrick
Henry, though in virtual sympathy with the administration, was yet
under the impression that Washington had cast off their old
friendship, determined to act the part of a peacemaker between them,
and, if possible, bring together once more two old friends who had
been parted by political differences that no lon