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72 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
RESOLUTIONS OF NEW YORK CONVENTION APPROVING
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.1
In Convention of the Representatives of ]
the State of New York, White Plains, ;
July 9, 1776.
Resolved, unanimously, That the reasons assigned
by the Continental Congress for declaring the United
Colonies free and independent States, are cogent and
conclusive ; and that while we lament the cruel necessity which has rendered that measure unavoidable, we
approve the same, and will, at the risk of our lives and
fortunes, join with the other Colonies in supporting it.
Resolved, That a copy of the said Declaration, and
the aforegoing Resolution, be sent to the Chairman
of the Committee of the County of Westchester, with
orders to publish the same with beat of drum at this
place, on Thursday next, and to give directions that it
went into this measure with pure intentions, and with no other wish than that
of serving their country ; and we entertain too high an opinion of their virtue
and integrity to apologize for a plainness of speech becoming freemen, and
which we know can give offence only to that counterfeit and adulterated dignity which swells the pride of those who, instead of lending, borrow consequence from their offices. And, sir, we beg leave to assure Congress, that
though we shall always complain of and oppose their resolutions when they
injure our rights, we shall ever be ready to risk our lives and fortunes in
supporting the American cause."
1 On July 9, 1776, the day the newly elected Convention of New York, mentioned on p. 59, assembled at White Plains, it received through the delegates at
Congress a copy of the Declaration of Independence for approval. This was
read and then referred to a Committee, of which Mr. Jay was chairman. At
the afternoon session of the same day the Committee reported the above resolutions which were unanimously adopted. Referring to this action Jay's biographer says, vol. i., p. 45 : " Thus, although Mr. Jay was, by his recall from
Congress, deprived of the honour of affixing his signature to the Declaration of
Independence, he had the satisfaction of drafting the pledge given by his native
State to support it; and this pledge, in his own handwriting, is preserved
among the records of New York."
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 1 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000103 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 72 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. RESOLUTIONS OF NEW YORK CONVENTION APPROVING DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.1 In Convention of the Representatives of ] the State of New York, White Plains, ; July 9, 1776. Resolved, unanimously, That the reasons assigned by the Continental Congress for declaring the United Colonies free and independent States, are cogent and conclusive ; and that while we lament the cruel necessity which has rendered that measure unavoidable, we approve the same, and will, at the risk of our lives and fortunes, join with the other Colonies in supporting it. Resolved, That a copy of the said Declaration, and the aforegoing Resolution, be sent to the Chairman of the Committee of the County of Westchester, with orders to publish the same with beat of drum at this place, on Thursday next, and to give directions that it went into this measure with pure intentions, and with no other wish than that of serving their country ; and we entertain too high an opinion of their virtue and integrity to apologize for a plainness of speech becoming freemen, and which we know can give offence only to that counterfeit and adulterated dignity which swells the pride of those who, instead of lending, borrow consequence from their offices. And, sir, we beg leave to assure Congress, that though we shall always complain of and oppose their resolutions when they injure our rights, we shall ever be ready to risk our lives and fortunes in supporting the American cause." 1 On July 9, 1776, the day the newly elected Convention of New York, mentioned on p. 59, assembled at White Plains, it received through the delegates at Congress a copy of the Declaration of Independence for approval. This was read and then referred to a Committee, of which Mr. Jay was chairman. At the afternoon session of the same day the Committee reported the above resolutions which were unanimously adopted. Referring to this action Jay's biographer says, vol. i., p. 45 : " Thus, although Mr. Jay was, by his recall from Congress, deprived of the honour of affixing his signature to the Declaration of Independence, he had the satisfaction of drafting the pledge given by his native State to support it; and this pledge, in his own handwriting, is preserved among the records of New York." |
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