The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1913-07-18

ID HIS Family
was at last maue euC[1ve ana com
plete.
Towards the close of June, Wash
ington ventured to. go for a little while
to Mount Vernon for rest. At once
there was trouble. A privateer was
found taking arms and stores aboard
in the very river at Philadelphia; JEFF
ferson allowed her to drop down to
Chester, believing Genet instead OF
the agents of the government; and
she was upon the point Of getting to
sea before Washington could reach
the seat of government. Jefferson
was not in town when the president
arrived.
Rebuke for jefferson.
''What is to be done in the case OF
the Little Sarah now at Chester?
came Washington's hot questions after
him. "Is the minister of the French
republic to set the acts of this gov
eminent at defiance with impunity?
And then threaten the executive with
an appeal to the people? What must
respecting nation; and consented to
submit himself once more to the vote
of the electors.
Elected for Second Term.
Parties were organizing, but there
was no opposition to Washington. He
received again a unanimous vote; and
John Adams. was' again chosen vice
president. The second inauguration
March, 1899 seemed but routine
confirmation of the first.
But the elections to congress showed
a change setting in. In the senate
the avowed supporters of the admin
istration had still narrow majority;
but in the house they fell ten votes
short of control; and Washington had
to put his policy Of neutrality into ex-
ecution against the mad Genet with
nothing but doubts how he should be
supported. The insane folly Of Genet
saved the president serious embar-
rassment, after all; made the evidence
that Washington was right too plain
to be missed by anybody; and gave
the country at last vision enough to
see what was in fact the course of
affairs abroad, within and without un-
happy France.
Before that trying year 1898 was
out, an attack upon Hamilton in the
house, though led by Madison, had
failed; Jefferson had left the cabinet;
and the hands of those who definitely
and heartily supported the president
were not a little strengthened.
There was sharp bitterness between
parties-a bitterness sharper as yet,
indeed, than their differences Of view;
but the "federalists," who stood to the
support of Washington and Hamilton,
were able, none the less, to carry their
more indispensable measurement an
act of neutrality which. made the pres
ident's policy the explicit law of the
land. The sober second thought Of
the country was slowly coming about
to their aid.
Doubts About England.
The air might have cleared alto
gether had the right method of deal
ing with France been the only ques-
ton thatspressed; but the i'll fortune
of the time forced the president to
seem not only the recreant friend of
France, but also the too complacent
partisan of England.
Great Britain seemed as mischiev-
ously bent upon forcing the United
States to war as Genet himself had
been. She would not withdraw her
garrisons from the border posts; it
was believed that she was melting
the Indians to their savage inroads
upon the border, as the French had
done in the old days; she set herself
10 destroy neutral trads by Selling
all vessels that carried the products
of the French islands or were laden
with provisions for their ports; she
would admit American vessels to her
own West Indian harbors only upon
sufferance, and within the limits of a
most jealous restriction.
1t gave a touch of added bitterness
to the country's feeling against her
that she should thus levy as it were
covert war upon the Union while af-
fecting to be at peace with it, as IL
she counted on its weakness, especial
ly on the seas; and congress would
have taken measures of retaliation,
which must certainly have led to open
hostilities,r had not Washington inter
despatching John Jay, the
trusted chief justice, across sea as
minister extraordinary, to negotiate
terms of accommodation; and SO CIV
ing pause to the trouble.
Whisky Riots Suppressed.
While the country waited upon the
it witnessed wholesome.
in the power of it's new
government. In March, 1871, congress
had passed an act laying taxes on dis
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