The tendency of such conditions to inspire political feuds and to foster factional animosity is quite obvious.

This situation must be borne in mind, in order to make intelligible the course of Adams's administration.
Adams had an inheritance of trouble from the same source which had plagued Washington's administration,--the efforts of revolutionary France to rule the United States.

In selecting Monroe to succeed Morris, Washington knew that the former was as friendly to the French Revolution as Morris had been opposed to it, and hence he hoped that Monroe would be able to impart a more friendly feeling to the relations of the two countries.

Monroe arrived in Paris just after the fall of Robespierre.

The Committee of Public Safety then in possession of the executive authority hesitated to receive him.