As we are more powerful and more enlightened than they are, there is a responsibility of national character that we should treat them with kindness, and even with liberality." The plan suggested in this report was, to add to those arrangements respecting trade, which were indispensable to the preservation of peace, a chain of garrisoned posts within the territory of the Indians, provided their assent to the measure should be obtained; and to subject all those who should trespass on their lands to martial law.

A bill founded on this report passed the senate, but was lost, in the house of representatives, by a small majority.
[Sidenote: Resignation of General Knox.] This report preceded the resignation of the secretary of war but a few days.

This valuable officer, too, was driven from the service of the public, by the scantiness of the compensation allowed him.
On the 28th of December, 1794, he addressed a letter to the President giving him official notice that, with the year, his services as secretary for the department of war would cease.

This resolution had long before been verbally communicated.
"After having served my country," concluded the letter, "near twenty years, the greater portion of the time under your immediate auspices, it is with extreme reluctance I find myself constrained to withdraw from so honourable a situation.

But the natural and powerful claims of a numerous family will no longer permit me to neglect their essential interests.
"In whatever situation I shall be, I shall recollect your confidence and kindness with all the fervour and purity of affection, of which a grateful heart is susceptible." In the letter accepting his resignation, the President expressed the regret it occasioned, and added: "I can not suffer you, however, to close your public service, without uniting to the satisfaction which must arise in your own mind from conscious rectitude, assurances of my most perfect persuasion that you have deserved well of your country.
"My personal knowledge of your exertions, while it authorizes me to hold this language, justifies the sincere friendship which I have borne you, and which will accompany you in every situation of life." [Sidenote: Is succeeded by Colonel Pickering.] Colonel Pickering, a gentleman who had filled many important offices through the war of the revolution; who had discharged several trusts of considerable confidence under the present government; and who at the time was postmaster general, was appointed to succeed him.
On the seventh of March, the treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, between the United States and Great Britain, which had been signed by the ministers of the two nations, on the 19th of the preceding November, was received at the office of state.
[Sidenote: Treaty between the United States and Great Britain.] From his arrival in London on the 15th of June, Mr.Jay had been assiduously and unremittingly employed on the arduous duties of his mission.