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 cabinet, 233;
keeps confidence in Hamilton, 234;
urged by all parties to accept presidency again, 235;
willing to be reelected, 235;
pleased at unanimous vote, 235;
his early immunity from attacks, 237;
later attacked by Freneau and Bache, 238;
regards opposition as dangerous to country, 239;
asserts his intention to disregard them, 240;
his success in Genet affair, 241;
disgusted at “democratic” societies, 242;
thinks they fomented Whiskey Rebellion, 242;
denounces them to Congress, 243;
effect of his remarks, 244;
accused of tyranny after Jay treaty, 244;
of embezzlement, 245;
of aristocracy, 245;
realizes that he must compose cabinet of sympathizers, 246;
reconstructs it, 246;
states determination to govern by party, 247;
slighted by House, 247;
refuses a third term, 248;
publishes Farewell Address, 248;
his justification for so doing, 248;
his wise advice, 249;
address Attacked by Democrats, 250, 251;
assailed in Congress by Giles, 251;
resents charge of being a British sympathizer, 252;
his scrupulously fair conduct toward France, 253;
his resentment at English policy, 254;
his retirement celebrated by the opposition, 255;
remarks of the “Aurora,” 256;
forged letters of British circulated, 257;
he repudiates them, 257;
his view of opposition, 259.
In Retirement.
Regards Adams’s administration
as continuation of his own, 259;
understands Jefferson’s
attitude, 259;
wishes generals of provisional
army to be Federalist, 260;
doubts fidelity of opposition
as soldiers, 260;
dreads their poisoning mind
of army, 261;
his condemnation of Democrats,
261, 262;
snubs Dr. Logan for assuming
an unofficial mission to France, 263-265;
alarmed at Virginia and Kentucky
resolutions, 266;
urges Henry to oppose Virginia
resolutions, 267;
condemns the French party
as unpatriotic, 267;
refuses request to stand again
for presidency, 269;
comments on partisanship of
Democrats, 269;
believes that he would be
no better candidate than any other
Federalist, 270, 271;