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CIRCULAR-LETTER FROM CONGRESS. 223
Britain to break it down are as vain and fruitless as
the raging of the waves which beat against her cliffs.
Let those who are still afflicted with these doubts
consider the character and condition of our enemies.
Let them remember that we are contending against
a kingdom crumbling into pieces; a nation without
public virtue, and a people sold to and betrayed by
their own representatives ; against a prince governed
by his passions, and a ministry without confidence or
wisdom; against armies half paid and generals half
trusted ; against a government equal only to plans of
plunder, conflagration, and murder—a government,
by the most impious violations of the rights of
religion, justice, humanity, and mankind, courting the
vengeance of Heaven, and revolting from the protection of Providence. Against the fury of these enemies
you made successful resistance, when single, alone,
and friendless, in the days of weakness and infancy,
before your hands had been taught to war or your
fingers to fight. And can there be any reason to apprehend that the Divine Disposer of human events,
after having separated us from the house of bondage,
and led us safe through a sea of blood towards the
land of liberty and promise, will leave the work of our
political redemption unfinished, and either permit us
to perish in a wilderness of difficulties, or suffer us to
be carried back in chains to that country of oppression, from whose tyranny he hath mercifully delivered
us with a stretched-out arm ?
In close alliance with one of the most powerful
nations in Europe, which has generously made our
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 1 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000254 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | CIRCULAR-LETTER FROM CONGRESS. 223 Britain to break it down are as vain and fruitless as the raging of the waves which beat against her cliffs. Let those who are still afflicted with these doubts consider the character and condition of our enemies. Let them remember that we are contending against a kingdom crumbling into pieces; a nation without public virtue, and a people sold to and betrayed by their own representatives ; against a prince governed by his passions, and a ministry without confidence or wisdom; against armies half paid and generals half trusted ; against a government equal only to plans of plunder, conflagration, and murder—a government, by the most impious violations of the rights of religion, justice, humanity, and mankind, courting the vengeance of Heaven, and revolting from the protection of Providence. Against the fury of these enemies you made successful resistance, when single, alone, and friendless, in the days of weakness and infancy, before your hands had been taught to war or your fingers to fight. And can there be any reason to apprehend that the Divine Disposer of human events, after having separated us from the house of bondage, and led us safe through a sea of blood towards the land of liberty and promise, will leave the work of our political redemption unfinished, and either permit us to perish in a wilderness of difficulties, or suffer us to be carried back in chains to that country of oppression, from whose tyranny he hath mercifully delivered us with a stretched-out arm ? In close alliance with one of the most powerful nations in Europe, which has generously made our |
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