Like the great earl, Ames rose pale and trembling from illness to address a House angry and divided.

Defending himself and the Federal party against the charge of being in English interest, he said, "Britain has no influence, and can have none.

She has enough--and God forbid she ever should have more.

France, possessed of popular enthusiasm, of party attachments, has had and still has _too much influence_ on our politics,--any foreign influence is too much and ought to be destroyed.
I detest the man and disdain the spirit that can ever bend to a mean subserviency to the views of any nation.

It is enough to be American.
That character comprehends our duties and ought to engross our attachments." Considering the probable influence on the Indian tribes of the rejection of the treaty, he said, "By rejecting the Posts we light the savage fires, we bind the victims....