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CIRCULAR-LETTER FROM CONGRESS. 229
perfected ; that the Union may be dissolved, Congress
be abolished, and each State, resuming its delegated
powers, proceed in future to hold and exercise all the
rights of sovereignty appertaining to an independent
state. In such an event, say they, the Continental
bills of credit, created and supported by the Union,
would die wTith it. This position being assumed, they
next proceed to assert this event to be probable, and
in proof of it urge our divisions, our parties, our separate interests, distinct manners, former prejudices,
and many other arguments equally plausible and
equally fallacious. Examine this matter.
For every purpose essential to the defence of these
States in the progress of the present war, and necessary to the attainment of the objects of it, these States
now are as fully, legally, and absolutely confederated
as it is possible for them to be. Read the credentials
of the differe:\ delegates who composed the Congress
in 1774, 1775t and part of 1776. You will find that
they establish a Union for the express purpose of
opposing the oppressions of Britain, and obtaining
redress of grievances. On the 4th of July, 1776, your
representatives in Congress, perceiving that nothing
less than unconditional submission would satisfy our
enemies, did, in the name of the people of the Thirteen
United Colonies, declare them to be free and independent States ; and " for the support of that declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine
Providence, did mutually pledge to each other their
lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honour."
Was ever confederation more formal, more solemn,
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 1 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000260 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | CIRCULAR-LETTER FROM CONGRESS. 229 perfected ; that the Union may be dissolved, Congress be abolished, and each State, resuming its delegated powers, proceed in future to hold and exercise all the rights of sovereignty appertaining to an independent state. In such an event, say they, the Continental bills of credit, created and supported by the Union, would die wTith it. This position being assumed, they next proceed to assert this event to be probable, and in proof of it urge our divisions, our parties, our separate interests, distinct manners, former prejudices, and many other arguments equally plausible and equally fallacious. Examine this matter. For every purpose essential to the defence of these States in the progress of the present war, and necessary to the attainment of the objects of it, these States now are as fully, legally, and absolutely confederated as it is possible for them to be. Read the credentials of the differe:\ delegates who composed the Congress in 1774, 1775t and part of 1776. You will find that they establish a Union for the express purpose of opposing the oppressions of Britain, and obtaining redress of grievances. On the 4th of July, 1776, your representatives in Congress, perceiving that nothing less than unconditional submission would satisfy our enemies, did, in the name of the people of the Thirteen United Colonies, declare them to be free and independent States ; and " for the support of that declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, did mutually pledge to each other their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honour." Was ever confederation more formal, more solemn, |
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