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310 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
the reports respecting the state of others are as false
as they have been injurious. At Martinico the Loan
Office Bills sold at a considerable discount, and indeed
it was no easy matter to sell them at all. I shall take
the earliest opportunity of setting them and others
right about that matter.
On my return from Aranjues, where I propose to
go to-morrow, I shall transmit the papers you mention, with some others equally interesting. I can
easily believe that your difficulties have been great
and various. They were often the subject of conversation in America, and I am sure your friends, as well
as country, will rejoice in the late important success^
of your negotiations. The French Court, by continuing steady and true to the objects of their treaty
with us, will obtain those which induced them to make
it. Their conduct towards us hitherto has, I confess,
attached me to the whole nation in a degree that/
I could not have thought myself capable of ten years
ago. In my opinion Britain is to be conquered in
America, and that it would be more for the interest
of her enemies to confine their offensive operations
to that point than enfeeble their efforts by attention
to many lesser objects. Let America be supplied
with money, clothes, and ammunition, and she will,
by expelling her enemies and establishing independence, do more essential injury to those imperious
islanders than they have sustained for centuries.
What aid this court may be pleased to afford us is
not yet ascertained. I hope they will be such as may
be proportioned to the common interest, their dignity,
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 1 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000341 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 310 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. the reports respecting the state of others are as false as they have been injurious. At Martinico the Loan Office Bills sold at a considerable discount, and indeed it was no easy matter to sell them at all. I shall take the earliest opportunity of setting them and others right about that matter. On my return from Aranjues, where I propose to go to-morrow, I shall transmit the papers you mention, with some others equally interesting. I can easily believe that your difficulties have been great and various. They were often the subject of conversation in America, and I am sure your friends, as well as country, will rejoice in the late important success^ of your negotiations. The French Court, by continuing steady and true to the objects of their treaty with us, will obtain those which induced them to make it. Their conduct towards us hitherto has, I confess, attached me to the whole nation in a degree that/ I could not have thought myself capable of ten years ago. In my opinion Britain is to be conquered in America, and that it would be more for the interest of her enemies to confine their offensive operations to that point than enfeeble their efforts by attention to many lesser objects. Let America be supplied with money, clothes, and ammunition, and she will, by expelling her enemies and establishing independence, do more essential injury to those imperious islanders than they have sustained for centuries. What aid this court may be pleased to afford us is not yet ascertained. I hope they will be such as may be proportioned to the common interest, their dignity, |
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