This was, compensation for the negroes carried away in violation of the treaty of peace.

The house avoided this proposition by modifying the resolutions so as to expunge all that part of it which prescribed the conditions on which the intercourse might be restored.

A bill was brought in conforming to this resolution, and carried by a considerable majority.

In the senate, it was lost by the casting vote of the Vice President.

The system which had been taken up in the house of representatives was pressed no further.
The altercations between the executive and the minister of the French republic, had given birth to many questions which had been warmly agitated in the United States, and on which a great diversity of sentiment prevailed.
The opinion of the administration that the relations produced by existing treaties, and indeed by a state of peace independent of treaty, imposed certain obligations on the United States, an observance of which it was the duty of the executive to enforce, had been reprobated with extreme severity.