The result must be a foregone conclusion, since John Jay was regarded as the chief Anglo-maniac in America after Hamilton.

They therefore condemned in advance any treaty he might agree to.

But their criticism went deeper than mere hatred of him: it sprang from an inveterate hatred of England, which dated from before the Revolution.

Since the Treaty of 1783 the English seemed to act deliberately with studied truculence, as if the Americans would not and could not retaliate.

They were believed to be instigating the Indians to continuous underhand war.