Quarrels with Genet, Etc.
Document 1793Senator King states his objections to the actions of Citizen Genet who he believed was endangering US neutrality with regard to France's war with Spain and Britain.
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Quarrel with Jay,
Neutrality.
Objections to popular meetings in
Subjects already acted on by Government.
New York Saturday 3d Aug. 1793.
The French fleet from the Chesapeake and their convoy are and for the north, two or above the Battery — the ambassador also arrived, both [undecipherable] and an account, confirmed by those of many Spectators of the combat, leave no doubt of the flight of the English frigate —
You will have seen in our news papers, an invitation for a meeting in the fields to address Mr. [undecipherable] lately arrived here — this business was agitated with Mr. [undecipherable] Osgood, Livingston, Nicholson, and others of like politics. Elsewhere, between two or three hundred Persons assembled, and I am told they were generally anti-federal — Nicholson was in the Chair, an address was produced, adopted, and a Committee of thirty or forty Persons appointed to present it) — These Gentlemen will not be stopped by trifles, they already appear that the cause of France is that of America, but it is time to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable]
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Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Senator King states his objections to the actions of Citizen Genet who he believed was endangering US neutrality with regard to France's war with Spain and Britain.
Date
08/03/1793
Author
Sent from
New York
Repository
Collection
Document number
1793080300501
Page start
1
Note
Partially illegible
Recipient is not shown but is assumed to have been Alexander Hamilton.
Notable persons
Rufus King
the French
Mr. Genet
Citizen Genet
Mr. Smith
Gelston
Mr. Osgood
B Livingston
Mr. Nicholson
men in high authority
the Executive
George Washington
mercantile people
Notable locations
New York
Chesapeake
Battery
the Fields
Notable items
French fleet
battery
combat
flight of the English frigate
newspapers
invitation
meeting
anti-federal
antifederal
cause of France
Mr. Genet's appeal to the people
decision of the executive
treaty of commerce
treaty
rules in the lives of nations
Chamber of Commerce
Constitution
laws
peace and order of the community
town meetings
decree
decree of the french convention
vessels

