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4084. JAY TREATY, House of representatives and.—[further continued] .

I am well pleased with
the manner in which your House have testified
their sense of the treaty. While their
refusal to pass the original clause of the reported
answer proved their condemnation of
it, the contrivance to let it disappear silently
respected appearances in favor of the President,
who errs as other men do, but errs with
integrity.—
To W. B. Giles. Washington ed. iv, 125. Ford ed., vii, 41.
(M. Dec. 1795)