In the end, the House stood 51 to 48 in favor of carrying the treaty into effect.

Only four votes for the treaty came from the section south of Mason and Dixon's line.
During the agitation over the Jay treaty the rage of party spirit turned full against Washington himself.

He was blackguarded and abused in every possible way.

He was accused of having shown incapacity while General and of having embezzled public funds while President.

He was nicknamed "the Step-Father of his country." The imputation on his honor stung so keenly that he declared "he would rather be in his grave than in the Presidency," and in private correspondence he complained that he had been assailed "in terms so exaggerated and indecent as could scarcely be applied to a Nero, a notorious defaulter, or even to a common pickpocket." The only rejoinder which his dignity permitted him to make is that contained in his Farewell Address, dated September 17, 1796, in which he made a modest estimate of his services and made a last affectionate appeal to the people whom he had so faithfully served.
The Farewell Address was not a communication to Congress.