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5o CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
tion is not uncommon ; nothing will contribute more
to its suppression than a vigorous exertion of the
powers vested in your Convention and Committee of
Safety, at least till more regular forms can be introduced. The tenderness shown to some wild people
on account of their supposed attachment to the cause,
has been of disservice. Their eccentric behaviour,
by passing unreproved, has gained countenance, and
has lessened your authority, and diminished that dignity so essential and necessary to give weight and
respect to your ordinances. Some of your own people are daily instigated (if not employed) to calumniate
and abuse the whole province, and misrepresent all
their actions and intentions. One in particular has
had the impudence to intimate to certain persons that
your battalions last campaign were not half full, and
that Schaick's regiment had more officers than privates ; others report that you have all along supplied
the men-of-war with whatever they pleased to have,
and through them our enemies in Boston. By tales
like these they pay their court to people who have
more ostensible consequence than real honesty, and
more cunning than wisdom.
I am happy to find that our intermeddling in the
affair of the test is agreeable to you. For God's sake
resist all such attempts for the future.
Your own discernment has pointed out to you the
principle of Lord Stirling's advancement; had the
age of a colonel's commission been a proper rule, it
would have determined in favour of some colonel at
Cambridge, many of whose commissions are prior in
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 1 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000081 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 5o CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. tion is not uncommon ; nothing will contribute more to its suppression than a vigorous exertion of the powers vested in your Convention and Committee of Safety, at least till more regular forms can be introduced. The tenderness shown to some wild people on account of their supposed attachment to the cause, has been of disservice. Their eccentric behaviour, by passing unreproved, has gained countenance, and has lessened your authority, and diminished that dignity so essential and necessary to give weight and respect to your ordinances. Some of your own people are daily instigated (if not employed) to calumniate and abuse the whole province, and misrepresent all their actions and intentions. One in particular has had the impudence to intimate to certain persons that your battalions last campaign were not half full, and that Schaick's regiment had more officers than privates ; others report that you have all along supplied the men-of-war with whatever they pleased to have, and through them our enemies in Boston. By tales like these they pay their court to people who have more ostensible consequence than real honesty, and more cunning than wisdom. I am happy to find that our intermeddling in the affair of the test is agreeable to you. For God's sake resist all such attempts for the future. Your own discernment has pointed out to you the principle of Lord Stirling's advancement; had the age of a colonel's commission been a proper rule, it would have determined in favour of some colonel at Cambridge, many of whose commissions are prior in |
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