The Washington herald., 1913-03-19

course which should make it a self-re-
specting nation: and consented to sub
NIT himself once more to the vote of
the electors.
Parties were organising but there was
no opposition to Washington. He re-
ceived again a unanimous vote; and John
Adams was again chosen Vice President
The second inauguration tMarch, 1888
seemed but a routine confirmation OF the
first But the elections to Congress
showed a change setting in.
A Strong Opposition.
In the Senate the avowed supporters
OF the administration had still a narrow
majority, but in the House they fell ten
votes short of control. and Washington
had to put his policy Of neutrality into
execution against the mad Genet with
nothing but doubts how he should be
supported.
The insane policy of Genet saved the
President serious embarrassment, after
all: made the evidence that Washington
was right too plain to be missed by any
body; 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 1873 was out, an
attack upon Hamilton In the House.
though led by Madison, had failed: Jeffer-
son had left the Cabinet: and the hands
of those who definitely had heartily sup
ported the President were not little
strengthened.
parties-a- bitterness sharper as yet. In
deed. than their differences Of view; but
the "Federalists," who stood to the sup
Port of Washington and Hamilton, were
able, none the less. to carry their more
indispensable measures-even an act OF
neutrality which made the Presidents
policy the explicit law of the land
The sober second thought of the
country was slowly coming about to
their aid
The air might have cleared alto
Gether had the right method of dealing
with France been the only question
| that pressed, but the ill 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 Mischievous.
Great Britain seemed as mischiev-
| ousiy 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 In
dians to their savage inroads upon the
border, as the French had done in the
| old days: she set herself to destroy
| neutral trade by seizing 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 II
| she counted on its weakness, especially
on the seas: and Congress would have
| taken measures of retaliation, which
must certainly have led to open hos
/ tilities. had not Washington inter-
vened, dispatchins John Jay. the trust
! ed Chief Justice, across sea as min
lister extraordinary. to negotiate terms
of accommodation. and so giving pause
to the trouble
To-morrow-The Unpopular Treaty.
Submarine cables resting at the bottom Of ths
| sea \ yauation of