Tuesday, December 10.
Agreeably to the resolution of yesterday, the Senate waited on the President of the United States, and the President of the Senate, in their name, presented the Address then agreed to.
To which the President of the United States made the following reply:
Gentlemen of the Senate:
I thank you for this Address. I wish you all possible success and satisfaction in your deliberations on the means which have a tendency to promote and extend our national interests and happiness; and I assure you that, in all your measures directed to those great objects, you may, at all times, rely with the highest confidence on my cordial co-operation.
The praise of the Senate, so judiciously conferred on the promptitude and zeal of the troops, called to suppress the insurrection, as it falls from so high authority, must make a deep impression, both as a terror to the disobedient, and an encouragement of such as do well.
JOHN ADAMS.
United States, December 10, 1799.
The Senate returned to their own Chamber, and proceeded to the consideration of Executive business.