people of the states according to the first enumeration"....

Militia law....Defeat of St. Clair....Opposition to the

increase of the army...Report of the secretary of the

treasury for raising additional supplies....Congress ad-

journs....Strictures on the conduct of administration, with

a view of parties....Disagreement between the secretaries

of state and treasury..Letters from G. Washington on

this subject...Opposition to the excise law....President's

proclamation...Insurrection and massacre in the island of

St. Domingo...General Wayne appointed to the com-

mand of the army....Meeting of congress...President's

speech....Resolutions implicating the secretary of the

treasury rejected.. Congress adjourns.. Progress of the

French revolution, and its effects on parties in the United

States.

CHAPTER VI.

G. Washington again unanimously elected president....War

between Great Britain and France....Queries put by the

president to his cabinet in relation to the conduct proper to

be adopted by the American government in consequence

of this event....Proclamation of neutrality...Arrival of Mr.

Genet as minister from France.. His conduct....Illegal

proceedings of the French cruisers....Opinions of the

cabinet in relation thereto....State of parties.... Democratic

societies formed...Genet calculates upon the partialities of

the American people for France, and openly insults their

government....Rules laid down by the executive in relation

to the powers at war within the ports of the United States

....The president requests the recall of Genet...British

order of 1793....Decree of the national convention relative

to neutral commerce.

CHAPTER VII.

Meeting of congress...President's speech... His message on

the subject of the foreign relations of the United States...

Report of the secretary of state in relation to the com-

merce of the United States...He resigns... Is succeeded by

Mr. Randolph...Mr. Madison's resolutions founded on the

above report...Debate thereon... Debates on the subject of a

navy...An embargo law.. Mr. Jay appointed envoy extraor-

dinary to Great Britain...Inquiry into the conduct of the

secretary of the treasury, terminates honourably to him...

Internal taxes laid...Congress adjourns.

CHAPTER VIII.

Genet recalled... Is succeeded by Mr. Fauchet...Governeur

Morris recalled, and 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 mea.

sures of the government... Meeting of congress... President's

speech...Democratic societies...Resignation of colonel

Hamilton... Is succeeded by Mr. Wolcot... 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 in the

United States...Mr. Randolph resigns... Is succeeded by

colonel Pickering. .Colonel M Henry appointed secretary

at war...Charge against the president rejected...'1 reaty

with the Indians north west of the Ohio...Treaty with

Algiers...Treaty with Spain... Meeting of congress...Pre-

sident'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

La Fayette.

CHAPTER IX.

Letter from general Washington to Mr. Jefferson...Hostile

measures of France against the United States... Mr. Monroe

recalled and general Pinckney appointed to succeed him

...General Washington's valedictory address to the people
of the United States, in which he declines being considered
as a candidate for the presidency...The minister of France
endeavours to influence the approaching election...The
president's speech to congress.. He denies the authenticity
of certain spurious letters published as his in 1776...John
Adams elected president, and Thomas Jefferson vice pre-
sident...General Washington retires to Mount Vernon...
Political situation of the United States at this period...The
French government refuses to receive general Pinckney
as minister.. Congress is convened... President's speech...
Three envoys extraordinary deputed to negotiate with
France... Their treatment... Measures of hostility adopted
by the American government against France...General
Washington appointed commander in chief of the Ameri
can army... His death... And character.

OF

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

CHAPTER I.

After retiring to private life, general Washington devotes his time to rural pursuits, to the duties of friendship, and to institutions of public utility....Resolves of congress and of the legislature of Virginia for erecting statues in honour of him.... Recommends the opening and improving the inland navigation of the great rivers in Virginia....He declines accepting a donation made to him by his native state.... Establishment of the society of the Cincinnati, of which he is elected president....The causes which led to a change of the government of the United States....Letters of general Washington to the governors of the several

states.

To a mind inflamed by ambition, or corrupted by the love of power, it will appear impossible that the late commander in chief could have descended, without reluctance, from the exalted station which he had filled so long, and with so much glory. But the actions of Washington had never been influenced by selfish motives. To preserve the liberties of his country his sword had been drawn, and to establish her independence he had remained at the head of her armies.

These

1783

to

1787.