AMERICAN PROBLEMS by WILLIAM E.BORAH 1924

RECOGNITION OF RUSSIA 265
and the execution of the Queen occurred what
was known in France as the reign of terror or
No language, Mr. President, which
mob rule.
has been used, or which could be used in the
description of the atrocities of the soviet government
could exceed the atrocities which were
practiced during those months. There must
have been a deep, a profound reason for the
recognition of that Government in France, to,
which we will come in a few moments.
On June 2, 1793, Lyons, by decree of the convention,
was doomed to destruction; its name
was to be blotted out; 3,500 were arrested, and
half of them thrown into prison and massacred.
Toulon and Marsailles suffered likewise. This
was the condition in France at the time of the
action of Washington's Cabinet.
Now, who composed that Cabinet ? Excepting
always, of course, living Cabinets, it was
undoubtedly the greatest in all history, not
They
only of our country but of all the world.
were not only administrators but they were
builders of government; they were constructors;
they were the carpenters who set up the
fabric.
There have not been in the history of
mankind two men who better understood the
science of government than Alexander Hamilton
and Thomas Jefferson.
The wide-ranging