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i54 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
be printed entire. Extracts might be followed by
suspicions. The malicious might remark, that parts
were concealed which, if made known, would probably
give a different colour to the whole. A number of
Holt's papers shall be sent to you, and care taken
to transmit others to Congress, to headquarters, to
Peekskill, etc.- I shall also request Loudon to
reprint it.
This attack on your reputation will, I hope, do you
only a temporary injury. The honest though credulous multitude, when undeceived, will regret their
giving way to suspicions which have led them to do
you injustice.
I have reason to suspect that the Council of Safety
believed that Ticonderoga was left by your direction
or advice, or with your knowledge. They appear
fully satisfied of the contrary, and, in my opinion, St.
Clair's letter will remove all doubts on that head.
The propriety of appointing a committee to inquire
into your conduct appears to me very questionable.
Supposing it unexceptionable in point of delicacy
with respect to you (which I by no means think it),
yet as this Council and the late Convention have, on
certain occasions, made your cause their own, your
enemies would not fail to insinuate that the proposed
inquiry was a mere contrivance to give a favourable
complexion to your conduct. Your readiness to submit
to such an inquiry is no doubt a strong argument of
innocence and conscious rectitude ; but whether it
would not be assuming in the Council to propose it,
and inconsistent with the dignity of your station to
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 1 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000185 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | i54 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. be printed entire. Extracts might be followed by suspicions. The malicious might remark, that parts were concealed which, if made known, would probably give a different colour to the whole. A number of Holt's papers shall be sent to you, and care taken to transmit others to Congress, to headquarters, to Peekskill, etc.- I shall also request Loudon to reprint it. This attack on your reputation will, I hope, do you only a temporary injury. The honest though credulous multitude, when undeceived, will regret their giving way to suspicions which have led them to do you injustice. I have reason to suspect that the Council of Safety believed that Ticonderoga was left by your direction or advice, or with your knowledge. They appear fully satisfied of the contrary, and, in my opinion, St. Clair's letter will remove all doubts on that head. The propriety of appointing a committee to inquire into your conduct appears to me very questionable. Supposing it unexceptionable in point of delicacy with respect to you (which I by no means think it), yet as this Council and the late Convention have, on certain occasions, made your cause their own, your enemies would not fail to insinuate that the proposed inquiry was a mere contrivance to give a favourable complexion to your conduct. Your readiness to submit to such an inquiry is no doubt a strong argument of innocence and conscious rectitude ; but whether it would not be assuming in the Council to propose it, and inconsistent with the dignity of your station to |
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