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====Washington's Administration demands Genêt's recall====
[[File:Edmund_Randolph,_head-and-shoulders_portrait.jpg|thumbnail|left|250px|Attorney General Edmund Randolph]]
Genêt ignored American warnings and allowed the outfitting of another French privateer, the Little Democrat. Defying numerous warnings from U.S. officials to detain the ship in port, Genêt continued to ready the ship to sail. Genêt also threatened to take his case to the American people, bypassing official government opposition. Genêt failed to realize that Washington and his neutrality policy were politically popular, and that his pro-British enemies would depict such an attempt as foreign meddling in American domestic affairs.

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