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Albert Gallatin

CHAPTER V
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The vote was 62 to 36.

Among the irreconcilables the name of Edward Livingston is recorded.
The answer of the President was a model of good sense.

"No event can afford me so much cordial satisfaction as to conduct a negotiation with the French Republic to a removal of prejudices, a correction of errors, a dissipation of umbrages, an accommodation of all differences, and a restoration of harmony and affection to the mutual satisfaction of both nations." This was the leading debate of the session.

The situation was too grave for trifling.

On June 5, two days after the President's reply, resolutions were introduced to put the country in a state of defense.
Gallatin struggled hard to keep down the appropriations, and opposed the employment of the three frigates, which as yet had not been equipped or manned.


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