The  correspondence  between  the  United  States  and  France  in  reference
to  questions  which  have  become  subjects  of  discussion  between  the  two
Governments  will  at  a  proper  time  be  laid  before  Congress.
When,  on  the  organization  of  our  Government  under  the  Constitution,
the  President  of  the  United  States  delivered  his  inaugural  address  to  the
two  Houses  of  Congress,  he  said  to  them,  and  through  them  to  the  coun-
try and  to  mankind,  that —

The  preservation  of  the  sacred  fire  of  liberty  and  the  destiny  of  the  republican
model  of  government  are  justly  considered,  perhaps,  as  deeply,  as  finally,  staked  on
the  experiment  intrusted  to  the  hands  of  the  American  people.
And  the  House  of  Representatives  answered  Washington  by  the  voice
of  Madison:

We  adore  the  Invisible  Hand  which  has  led  the  American  people,  through  so  many
difficulties,  to  cherish  a  conscious  responsibility  for  the  destiny  of  republican  liberty.
