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.
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