Charles
Lee consulted a member from Virginia, to know whether Marshall would be
agreeable. He named you, as more likely to give satisfaction. The answer
was,' Nobody of Mr. Madison's way of thinking will be appointed.'
The representatives have not yet got through their addresses. An
amendment of Mr. Nicholas's, which you will have seen in the papers, was
lost by a division of forty-six to fifty-two. A clause by Mr. Dayton,
expressing a wish that France might be put on an equal footing with
other nations, was inserted by fifty-two against forty-seven. This vote
is most worthy of notice, because the moderation and justice of the
proposition being unquestionable, it shows that there are forty-seven
decided to go to all lengths to
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They have received a new orator from the district of Mr. Ames. He is the
son of the Secretary of the Senate. They have an accession from South
Carolina also, that State being exactly divided. In the House of
Representatives I learned the following facts, which give me real
concern. When the British treaty arrived at Charleston, a meeting, as
you know, was called, and a committee of seventeen appointed, of whom
General Pinckney was one. He did not attend. They waited for him, sent
for him: he treated the mission with great hauteur, and disapproved of
their meddling.
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