Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . lished; the envoys re- and paused; and, through letters toPinchon (August and September, 1798),information was conveyed to the UnitedStates government that the Directorywere ready to receive advances from theformer for entering intci for peace. President Adams,without consulting his cabinet or the na-tional dignity, nominated to the SenateWilliam Vans Murray (then UnitedStates diplomatic agent at The Hague)as minister plenipotentiary to was a conc
Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . lished; the envoys re- and paused; and, through letters toPinchon (August and September, 1798),information was conveyed to the UnitedStates government that the Directorywere ready to receive advances from theformer for entering intci for peace. President Adams,without consulting his cabinet or the na-tional dignity, nominated to the SenateWilliam Vans Murray (then UnitedStates diplomatic agent at The Hague)as minister plenipotentiary to was a concession to the Directorywhich neither Congress nor the peopleapproved, and the Senate refused toratify the nomination. This advance,after unatoned insults from the Directory,seemed like cowardly cringing before ahalf-relenting tyrant. After a while thePresident consented to the appointmentof three envoys extraordinary, of whichMurray should be one, to settle all dis-putes between the two Ellsworth and William R. Daviewere chosen to join Murray. The latterdid not proceed to Europe until assur-. MKDAL AWARDED BY C0S0RES3 IN COMMEMORATION OP THE OAPTDRK OP LA TKXGEANCK BT THE CONSTELLATION. turned home; and the provisional army ances were received from France of their of the United States which had been or- courteous reception. These were received ganized was disbanded. from Talleyrand (November, 1799), and ^ Circumstances humbled the pride of the the two envoys sailed for France. The French Directory, and the wily Talley- same month the Directory, which had be- rand began to think of reconciliation with come unpopular, was overthrown, and the the United States. He saw the unity of government of France remodelled, with the people with Washington as leader. Napoleon Bonaparte as first consul or 416 FRANCE—FRANKING PRIVILEGE supreme ruler, of the nation. The en- 1814 they published the American Medi-voys were cordially received by Talley- cal and Philosophical R
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