[81] History of the United States, Second Series, i, 550.
[82] The names of the selectmen who addressed him were Ezekiel Price, Thomas Walley, William Boardman, Ebenezer Seaver, Thomas Crafts, Thomas Edwards, William Little, William Scollay, and Jesse Putnam.
[83] In “No. 6,” written, it is supposed, some time in August, Fauchet, alluding to the breaking out of the Whiskey Insurrection, said: “Scarce was the commotion known when the secretary of state [Mr. Randolph] came to my house. All his countenance was grief. He requested of me a private conversation. 'It is all over,' he said to me; 'a civil war is about to ravage our unhappy country. Four men, by their talents, their influence, their energy, may save it. But—debtors of English merchants—they will be deprived of their liberty if they take the smallest step. Could you lend them instantaneous funds sufficient to shelter them from English persecution?' This inquiry astonished me. It was impossible for me to make a satisfactory answer. You know my want of power and my defect of pecuniary means. I shall draw myself from the affair by some common-place remarks, and by throwing myself on the pure and disinterested principles of the republic.”
[84] Fauchet had been superseded by M. Adet, and had gone to New York to embark for France, when this difficulty occurred.
[85] Marshall's Life of Washington, ii. Appendix, Note xx.
CHAPTER XXX.
violence of party spirit—inflammatory appeals to the people—washington menaced with impeachment, and charged with plundering the treasury—newspaper discussions—hamilton in defence of the treaty—jefferson's appeal to madison to come to the rescue—proceedings in boston—reconstruction of the cabinet—arrival of young lafayette—washington's friendship for him—caution and expediency—the exiles and the congress—their home at mount vernon—their departure for france.