4075. JAY TREATY, Bad.—
No man in
the United States has had the effrontery to affirm
that the treaty with England was not
a very bad one except A. H.[Alexander
Hamilton] under the signature of “ Camillus
”. Its most zealous defenders only pretended
that it was better than war, as if war
was not invited, rather than avoided, by unfounded
demands. I have never known the
public pulse beat so full and in such universal
union on any subject since the Declaration of
Independence.—
To James Monroe.
Ford ed., vii, 58.
(M.
March. 1796)
