3430. GENET (E. C.), Reception of.—
It
was suspected that there was not a clear mind
in the President's counsellors to receive Genet.
The citizens, however, determined to receive
him. Arrangements were taken for meeting him
at Gray's Ferry in a great body. He escaped
that by arriving in town with the letters which
brought information that he was on the road.
* * * The citizens determined to address
Genet. Rittenhouse, Hutcheson, Dallas, Sargent,
&c., were at the head of it. Though a
select body of only thirty was appointed to present
it, yet a vast concourse of people attended
them. I have not seen it; but it is understood
to be the counter address to the one presented
to the President on the neutrality proclaimed.
by the merchants, i. e., Fitzsimmons & Co. It
contained much wisdom but no affection.—
To James Madison. Washington ed. iii, 562.
Ford ed., vi, 260.
(Pa.,
May. 1793)
