He declines sending them....

Debates upon the treaty making power....

Upon the bill for making appropriations to carry into execution the treaty with Great Britain....

Congress adjourns....

The President endeavours to procure the liberation of Lafayette.
{1794} That the most material of those legislative measures on which the two great parties of the United States were divided, might be presented in one unbroken view, some transactions have been passed over, which will now be noticed.
In that spirit of conciliation, which adopts the least irritating means for effecting its objects, the President had resolved to bear with the insults, the resistance, and the open defiance of Mr.Genet, until his appeal to the friendship and the policy of the French republic should be fairly tried.