[720] Marshall to Washington, Paris, March 8, 1798; Amer. Hist. Rev., Jan., 1897, ii, 303; also MS., Lib. Cong.
[721] Marshall's Journal, March 20, 93.
[722] Marshall's Journal, March 22, 95.
[723] Murray to J. Q. Adams, April 3, 1798, quoting Pinckney; Letters: Ford, 391.
[724] The exact reverse was true. Up to this time American newspapers, with few exceptions, were hot for France. Only a very few papers, like Fenno's Gazette of the United States, could possibly be considered as unfriendly to France at this point. (See supra, chap. i.)
[725] Am. St. Prs., For. Rel., ii, 190-91.
[726] Ib., 191.
[727] Marshall's Journal, March 22, 95.
[728] Marshall's Journal, March 22, 95-97.
[729] The Fairfax purchase.