try, and you will transmit to
posterity an example that must command their admiration and grateful
praise. Long may you continue to enjoy the endearments of fraternal
attachments, and the heartfelt happiness of reflecting that you have
faithfully done your duty.

"While I am permitted to possess the consciousness of this worth,
which has long bound me to you by every tie of affection and esteem, I
will continue to be your sincere and faithful friend."

Soon after his return to New York, the President was informed of the
ill success which had attended his first attempt to negotiate a peace
with the Creek Indians. General Lincoln, Mr. Griffin, and Colonel
Humphries, had been deputed on this mission, and had met M'Gillivray
with several other chiefs, and about two thousand men, at Rock
landing, on the Oconee, on the frontiers of Georgia. The treaty
commenced with favourable appearances, but was soon abruptly broken
off by M'Gillivray. Some difficulties arose on the subject of a
boundary, but the principal obstacles to a peace were supposed to grow
out of his personal interests, and his connexions with Spain.

[Sidenote: North Carolina accedes to the union.]

This intelligence was more than counterbalanced by the accession of
North Carolina to the union. In the month of November, a second
convention had met under the authority of the legislature of that
state, and the constitution was adopted by a great majority.

CHAPTER VI.

Meeting of congress.... President's speech.... Report of the
secretary of the treasury on public credit.... Debate
thereon.... Bill for fixing the permanent seat of
government.... Adjournment of congress.... Treaty with the
Creek Indians.... Relations of the United States with Great
Britain and Spain.... The President visits Mount Vernon....
Session of congress.... The President's speech.... Debates
on the excise.... On a national bank.... The opinions of the
cabinet on the law.... Progress of parties.... War with the
Indians.... Defeat of Harmar.... Adjournment of congress.

{1790}

On the eighth of January, 1790, the President met both houses of
congress in the senate chamber.

[Sidenote: Meeting of the second session of the first congress.]

In his speech, which was delivered from the chair of the vice
president, after congratulating congress on the accession of the
important state of North Carolina to the union, and on the pros