Washington himself entered into no discussion, but he ruminated over those which came to him.

I am not sure that he invented the phrase "Either the Treaty, or war," which summed up the alternatives which confronted Jay; but he used it with convincing emphasis.

When it came before the Senate, both sides had gathered every available supporter, and the vote showed only a majority of one in its favor.

Still, it passed.

But that did not satisfy its pertinacious enemies.