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EDWARD RUTLEDGE TO JAY. 67
Colonies, and a Scheme for a treaty with foreign Powers
will be laid before the House on Monday. Whether we
shall be able effectually to oppose the first and infuse Wisdom into the others will depend in a great measure upon
the exertions of the . . . and sensible part of the Members. I trust you will contribute in a considerable degree
to effect the Business and therefore I wish you to be with
us. Recollect the manner in which your Colony is at this
time represented. Clinton has Abilities but is silent in
general and wants (when he does speak) that Influence to
which he is intitled. Floyd, Wisner, Lewis and Alsop tho'
good men, never quit their chairs. You must know the
Importance of these Questions too well not to wish to [be]
present whilst they are debating and therefore I shall say
no more upon the Subject. I have been much engaged
lately upon a plan of a Confederation which Dickenson has
drawn ; it has the Vice of all his Productions to a considerable Degree; I mean the Vice of Refining too much.
Unless it's greatly curtailed it never can pass, as it is to be
submitted to Men in the respective Provinces who will not
be led or rather driven into Measures which may lay the
Foundation of their Ruin. If the Plan now proposed
should be adopted nothing less than Ruin to some Colonies
will be the Consequence of it— The Idea of destroying all
Provincial Distinctions and making every thing of the most
minute kind bend to what they call the good of the whole,
is in other Terms to say that these Colonies must be subject to the Government of the Eastern Provinces. The
Force of their Arms I hold exceeding Cheap, but I confess
I dread their over-ruling Influence in Council. I dread their
low Cunning, and those . , . Principles which Men
without Character and without Fortune in general possess,
which are so captivating to the lower class of Mankind, and
which will occasion such a fluctuation of Property as to
introduce the greatest disorder. I am resolved to vest the
Congress with no more Power than that is absolutely neces-
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 1 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000098 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | EDWARD RUTLEDGE TO JAY. 67 Colonies, and a Scheme for a treaty with foreign Powers will be laid before the House on Monday. Whether we shall be able effectually to oppose the first and infuse Wisdom into the others will depend in a great measure upon the exertions of the . . . and sensible part of the Members. I trust you will contribute in a considerable degree to effect the Business and therefore I wish you to be with us. Recollect the manner in which your Colony is at this time represented. Clinton has Abilities but is silent in general and wants (when he does speak) that Influence to which he is intitled. Floyd, Wisner, Lewis and Alsop tho' good men, never quit their chairs. You must know the Importance of these Questions too well not to wish to [be] present whilst they are debating and therefore I shall say no more upon the Subject. I have been much engaged lately upon a plan of a Confederation which Dickenson has drawn ; it has the Vice of all his Productions to a considerable Degree; I mean the Vice of Refining too much. Unless it's greatly curtailed it never can pass, as it is to be submitted to Men in the respective Provinces who will not be led or rather driven into Measures which may lay the Foundation of their Ruin. If the Plan now proposed should be adopted nothing less than Ruin to some Colonies will be the Consequence of it— The Idea of destroying all Provincial Distinctions and making every thing of the most minute kind bend to what they call the good of the whole, is in other Terms to say that these Colonies must be subject to the Government of the Eastern Provinces. The Force of their Arms I hold exceeding Cheap, but I confess I dread their over-ruling Influence in Council. I dread their low Cunning, and those . , . Principles which Men without Character and without Fortune in general possess, which are so captivating to the lower class of Mankind, and which will occasion such a fluctuation of Property as to introduce the greatest disorder. I am resolved to vest the Congress with no more Power than that is absolutely neces- |
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