Thomas Jefferson. The "momentous" period to which the address refers, was the difficulty with France, to which country the Jay treaty had been very distasteful, as the French declared that it favored Great Britain and denied certain rights to them. Happily, war was finally avoided. The Dispensary of St

Lancaster." In that paper is described the unsuccessful attempt of the three American envoys, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Elbridge Gerry and John Marshall, to establish diplomatic relations with the French Republic. The first dispatches of the envoys, sent from Paris October 22nd, 1797, reached

glory.' "Resolved, That in every act of his long and eventful life, — from the period of early boyhood, when in the stormy days of 1776 battling for the liberties of his country, he, a prisoner of war, refused to perform a menial service for a British officer, down through the Bar, the Senate Hall, the