Ron Chernow Quote
Adams made a conciliatory overture and announced plans to dispatch a diplomatic mission to Paris. The three-man delegation was to include two southern Federalists, John Marshall and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, and a northern Republican, Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, who had been a partisan of the French Revolution. The French are no more capable of a republican government, Adams advised Gerry, than a snowball can exist a whole week in the streets of Philadelphia under a burning sun.
Ron Chernow
Adams made a conciliatory overture and announced plans to dispatch a diplomatic mission to Paris. The three-man delegation was to include two southern Federalists, John Marshall and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, and a northern Republican, Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, who had been a partisan of the French Revolution. The French are no more capable of a republican government, Adams advised Gerry, than a snowball can exist a whole week in the streets of Philadelphia under a burning sun.