In republics, those to whom power was delegated, being the servants of the people, acting solely for their benefit, ought to transact all national affairs in open day.

This doctrine was not too absurd for the extravagance of the moment.
The predetermined hostility to the treaty increased in activity, as the period for deciding its fate approached.

On its particular merits, no opinion could be formed, because they were unknown; but on the general question of reconciliation between the two countries, a decisive judgment was extensively made up.

The sentiments called forth by the occasion demonstrated, that no possible adjustment of differences with Great Britain, no possible arrangement which might promise a future friendly intercourse with that nation, could be satisfactory.

The President was openly attacked; his whole system strongly condemned; and the mission of Mr.Jay, particularly, was reprobated in terms of peculiar harshness.