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He was so exhausted that he was on the verge of a collapse, and triumphs were drab under the daily harassment of Jefferson, Genet, and Freneau. Matters came to a climax one day in August, shortly before the outbreak of yellow fever.
Wolcott says honesty is the fashion in New York. Some of the clergy think Wall Street as wicked as the most fashionable streets in Tyre and Sodom; and the street-singers thanks to Mr. Freneau have each, and all, their little audiences on the subject.
Yet, with all his strength of grasp, this ill-assorted combination could not last, although Washington resisted the inevitable in a surprising way, and he even begged Jefferson to remain when the impossibility of doing so had become quite clear to that gentleman. The remonstrance in regard to the Freneau matter had but a temporary effect.
Over an anonymous signature he inquired, in Fenno's paper, whether the government salary given to Freneau was paid him for translations, or for calumniating those whom the voice of the nation had called to the administration of public affairs; whether he was rewarded as a public servant, or as a disturber of the public peace by false insinuations.
Senator Lodge, in commenting on this affair, caustically remarks: "Strict veracity was not the strongest characteristic of either Freneau or Jefferson, and it is really of but little consequence whether Freneau was lying in his old age or in the prime of life." An unbiassed searcher after truth to-day will find that the circumstantial evidence runs very strongly against Jefferson.
Jefferson, "and I took his intention to be, that I should interpose in some way with Freneau perhaps withdraw his appointment of translating clerk in my office. But I will not do it." "It appears to us," says Mr.
Their character has been shown in a previous chapter, but they were of no real moment except as illustrations of the existence and meaning of party divisions. The ravings of Bache and Freneau, and the coarse insults of Giles, were all totally unimportant in themselves. They merely define the purposes and character of the party which opposed Washington, and but for him would be forgotten.
That was precisely the point of the charge which he seems to have failed to apprehend, that public patronage was used at his suggestion to further party ends. Freneau had intended to start a newspaper somewhere in New Jersey.
"Captain Grumet, who made his escape from the Scorpion prison ship, at New York, on the evening of the 15th, says more lenity is shown the prisoners. There are 200 in the Strombolo, and 120 in the Scorpion." It was in 1780 that the poet Freneau was a prisoner on the Scorpion, which, at that time, was anchored in the East River.
Freneau was one of his college friends, a deserving man, to whom he was attached, and whom he was glad to help.
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