. Gouverneur Morris; the story of his life and work . execute faithfully routine departmental work,should hold office during good behavior, andshould be appointed without reference to theirpolitics; but if the higher public servants, such asthe heads of departments and the foreign minis-ters, are not in complete accord with their chief,the only result can be to introduce halting inde-cision and vacillation into the counsels of thenation, without gaining a single compensatingadvantage, and without abating by one iota thevirulence of party passion. To appoint Monroe,an extreme Democrat, to Franc
. Gouverneur Morris; the story of his life and work . execute faithfully routine departmental work,should hold office during good behavior, andshould be appointed without reference to theirpolitics; but if the higher public servants, such asthe heads of departments and the foreign minis-ters, are not in complete accord with their chief,the only result can be to introduce halting inde-cision and vacillation into the counsels of thenation, without gaining a single compensatingadvantage, and without abating by one iota thevirulence of party passion. To appoint Monroe,an extreme Democrat, to France, while at thesame time appointing Jay, a strong Federalist, toEngland, was not only an absurdity which didnothing toward reconciling the Federalists andDemocrats, but, bearing in mind how these partiesstood respectively toward England and France, itwas also an actual wrong, for it made our foreignpolicy seem double-faced and deceitful. Whileone minister was formally embracing such of theParisian statesmen as had hitherto escaped the I John Jay. I.
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