1To John Adams from James McHenry, 20 October 1797 (Adams Papers)
...conduct that nation has observed towards the United States may indeed entertain apprehensions of being forced into a war with the United States, in the event of a war taking place between the United States and France: but is there solid ground for the opinion that she will volunteer such a war in the present conjuncture and under the present state of their colonial possessions in America...
2To John Adams from James McHenry, 29 October 1799 (Adams Papers)
That in pursuance of the 4th Section of “an act further to suspend, the Commercial intercourse, between the United States and France and the dependencies thereof.” The President of the United States, having deemed it expedient and consistent with the interest of the United States to remit and discontinue the restraints and prohibitions provided by the said act, with respect...