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JAY TO FLORIDA BLANCA. 291
America; but where is it ? of whom composed ? what
has it done, or is doing ? are questions to which they
constantly give evasive answers. Much also have
they said of the numbers that have joined their arms
in America. The truth is, that at Boston, Rhode
Island, New York, and Philadelphia, they gleaned
some of that refuse of mankind to be found and purchased by anybody in all commercial cities. It is also
true, that some men of weight and influence in the
country, who joined the enemy on their first successes,
did draw away with them several of their immediate
dependants, whom they persuaded or otherwise influenced to enlist in their service. To these may also
be added the prisoners, who at different times they
forced into their service by famine, and other severities
too numerous as well as barbarous to be here particularized. But I have no reason to believe, that all
these aids put together ever exceeded three thousand
men. This business, however (except with respect
to prisoners), has long been over, and before I left
America, many of those deluded people had returned
and implored the pardon of their country.
In America, as in all other popular governments,
your Excellency knows there must and ever will be
parties for and against particular measures and particular men. The enemy, adverting to this circumstance, have had address enough to ascribe differences
and temporary heats arising from this source, in which
they were not interested, to causes much higher, and
more flattering to their importance; and this they
have done with so much art, as to have imposed in
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 1 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000322 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | JAY TO FLORIDA BLANCA. 291 America; but where is it ? of whom composed ? what has it done, or is doing ? are questions to which they constantly give evasive answers. Much also have they said of the numbers that have joined their arms in America. The truth is, that at Boston, Rhode Island, New York, and Philadelphia, they gleaned some of that refuse of mankind to be found and purchased by anybody in all commercial cities. It is also true, that some men of weight and influence in the country, who joined the enemy on their first successes, did draw away with them several of their immediate dependants, whom they persuaded or otherwise influenced to enlist in their service. To these may also be added the prisoners, who at different times they forced into their service by famine, and other severities too numerous as well as barbarous to be here particularized. But I have no reason to believe, that all these aids put together ever exceeded three thousand men. This business, however (except with respect to prisoners), has long been over, and before I left America, many of those deluded people had returned and implored the pardon of their country. In America, as in all other popular governments, your Excellency knows there must and ever will be parties for and against particular measures and particular men. The enemy, adverting to this circumstance, have had address enough to ascribe differences and temporary heats arising from this source, in which they were not interested, to causes much higher, and more flattering to their importance; and this they have done with so much art, as to have imposed in |
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