89;
answers resolutions of Boston town meeting, 190;
refuses to abandon his judgment to popular outcry, 190;
distinguishes temporary from permanent feeling, 191;
fears effect of excitement upon French government, 192;
his view of dangers of situation, 193, 194;
recalled to Philadelphia by cabinet, 195;
receives intercepted correspondence of Fauchet, 195, 196;
his course of action already determined, 197, 198;
not influenced by the Fauchet letter, 198;
evidence of this, 199, 200;
reasons for ratifying before showing letter to Randolph, 199, 200;
signs treaty, 201;
evidence that he did not sacrifice Randolph, 201, 202;
fairness of his action, 203;
refuses to reply to Randolph's attack, 204;
reasons for signing treaty, 205;
justified in course of time, 206;
refuses on constitutional grounds the call of representatives for
documents, 208;
insists on independence of treaty-making by executive and Senate, 209;
overcomes hostile majority in House, 210;
wishes Madison to succeed Morris at Paris, 211;
appoints Monroe, 216;
his mistake in not appointing a political supporter, 212;
disgusted at Monroe's behavior, 213, 214;
recalls Monroe and appoints C.C. Pinckney, 214;
angered at French policy, 214;
his contempt for Monroe's self-justification, 215, 216;
review of foreign policy, 216-219;
his guiding principle national independence, 216;
and abstention from European politics, 217;
desires peace and time for growth, 217, 218;
wishes development of the West, 218, 219;
wisdom of his policy, 219;
considers parties dangerous, 220;
but chooses cabinet from Federalists, 220;
prepared to undergo criticism, 221;
willingness to bear it, 221;
desires to learn public feeling, by travels, 221, 222;
feels that body of people will support national government, 222;
sees and deplores sectional feelings in the South, 222, 223;
objects to utterances of newspapers, 223;
attacked by "National Gazette," 227;
receives attacks on Hamilton from Jefferson and his friends, 228, 229;
sends charges to Hamilton, 229;
made anxious by signs of party division, 229;
urges both Hamilton and Jefferson to cease quarrel, 230, 231;
dreads an open division in cabinet, 232;
desirous to rule without party, 233;
accomplishes feat of keeping both secretaries in cabi