Bisbee daily review., 1913-05-22

powers, by endeayoring to maintain a strict neutrality. therefore require that you will give the subject mature consideration, that such measures as shall be des-ued most likely to effect this desirable purpose may be adopted without delay Such other measures as may be necessary for us not be in our power to avoid or con trol, you will also think of. and lay them before me at my arrival in Phil adelphia; for which place I shall set out tomorrow"
 He was at Mount Vernon when he dispatched these instructions; but it did not take him long to reach the seat of government, to consult his cabinet, and to issue a proclamation of ueu- trality whose terms no man could mis- take. It contained explicit threat of exemplary action against any who should presume to disregard it.
 Genet Comes From France. That very month (April, l793J Ed. mond Charles Genet, a youth still in his twenties whom the new republic over sea had commissioned minister to the United States, landed at Charleston. It pleased him to take possession of the country, as If it were of course an appenage of France. He was hardly ashore before he had be gun to arrange for the fitting out Of privateers, to issue letters of marQue to American citizens, and to author. ize French consuls at American ports to act as judges of admiralty in the condemnation of prizes.
 AS he iourneyed northward to Phil. adelphia he was joyfully confirmed in lis views and purposes by his recep tiOn at the hands of the people He was everywhere dined and toasted and feted, as if he had been a fevorite prince returned to his subjects His speeches by the way rang in tone of authority and patronage. He reached Philadelphia fairly mad with the sense of power, and had no con. ception of his real situation till he stood face to face with the president.
 Of that grim coutenance and cold greeting there could be but one inter pretation; and the fellow winced to feel that at last he had come to a grapple with the country's govern ment. It was, no doubt, in the eyes of the sobering man, Q strange and start ling thing that then took place. The country itself had not fully known Washington till then--or its own dlS- nifty either. It had deemed the proc lamation of neutrality a party meas ure. into which the president had been ted by the enemies of France, the par Lisans of England.
 But the summer undeceived every body, even Genet. Not content with the Iawless mischief he had set afoot on the coasts by the commissioning of privateorsmen, that mad youth had hsstened to send agents into the south md west to enlist men for armed ex- ueditions against the Floridas and against New Orleans, on the coveted Mississippi; but his work was every where steadily undone.
 Neutrality Is Enforced.
 Washington acted slowly, deliberate ly even, with that majesty of self-con. .roI. that awful courtesy and stiffness ln wrath, that had ever made him a master to be feared in moments of sharp trial. One by one the unlawful prizes were seized; justice was done apon their captors; the false admiralty courts were shut up. The army of the United States was made ready to check the risingS in the south and west, should there be need; the com olaints of the British minister were silenced by deeds as we'll as by words; the clamor of those who had well comed the Frenchman SO like provin- cials was ignored, though for season tt seemed the voice of the country It. self; and the humiliating work. which ought never to have been necessary, was at last made effective and com plete.