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EGBERT BENSON TO JAY. 213
cepting them. The assertion that Gen1- J. Clinton has
made a requisition of Men from Vermont you may be
assured is false. The Legislature will meet early in the next
Month when we shall be at our ne plus relative to this business unless something decisive is speedily done by Congress.
The People are much pleased that you have at last published your journals, tho' some of the proceedings are exceedingly reprehended, particularly the loan of 2,000,000 to
Pennsylvania. We cannot comprehend the propriety of
lending an enormous Sum to a trading State, their Government established and in full possession of all their
territory. Advancing monies indefinitely to delegates
without an application from their respective states is another proceeding for which Congress is censured. From
what I can learn I think it more than probable you will be
instructed as to both these matters. We have an idea that
the politics of Pennsylvania have crept into Congress and
that most of your proceedings are poisoned by their party
disputes about their government and that Congress ought
to remove from that State. How just this surmise is I will
not determine, but it seems to be so much the opinion of
many here that I should not be surprised if the Legislature
were also to send instruction upon this subject.
A regulating scheme has not been attempted anywhere in
the State except at Albany, and how it succeeds there I
do not certainly know but can easily conjecture. It is
amazing that people should still pursue a system so evidently futile and absurd. I sincerely wish the limitation may
be limited to the City of Albany. I possibly am in the opposite extreme and so far from reducing prices agreeable to
this plan, I think the Embargo Act ought immediately to
be repealed and our farmers indulged with an opportunity
of carrying their produce to the highest market. We have
already by embargos and other restrictions sacrificed too
much to the Common Cause; it is time we should observe
a different policy, and place our subjects upon equality with
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 1 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000244 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | EGBERT BENSON TO JAY. 213 cepting them. The assertion that Gen1- J. Clinton has made a requisition of Men from Vermont you may be assured is false. The Legislature will meet early in the next Month when we shall be at our ne plus relative to this business unless something decisive is speedily done by Congress. The People are much pleased that you have at last published your journals, tho' some of the proceedings are exceedingly reprehended, particularly the loan of 2,000,000 to Pennsylvania. We cannot comprehend the propriety of lending an enormous Sum to a trading State, their Government established and in full possession of all their territory. Advancing monies indefinitely to delegates without an application from their respective states is another proceeding for which Congress is censured. From what I can learn I think it more than probable you will be instructed as to both these matters. We have an idea that the politics of Pennsylvania have crept into Congress and that most of your proceedings are poisoned by their party disputes about their government and that Congress ought to remove from that State. How just this surmise is I will not determine, but it seems to be so much the opinion of many here that I should not be surprised if the Legislature were also to send instruction upon this subject. A regulating scheme has not been attempted anywhere in the State except at Albany, and how it succeeds there I do not certainly know but can easily conjecture. It is amazing that people should still pursue a system so evidently futile and absurd. I sincerely wish the limitation may be limited to the City of Albany. I possibly am in the opposite extreme and so far from reducing prices agreeable to this plan, I think the Embargo Act ought immediately to be repealed and our farmers indulged with an opportunity of carrying their produce to the highest market. We have already by embargos and other restrictions sacrificed too much to the Common Cause; it is time we should observe a different policy, and place our subjects upon equality with |
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