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364 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
your taxes paid ? Do the people continue firm ? A
few more glorious exertions will give them peace,
liberty, and safety. What says Vermont ?
Tell me how your mother and brothers do. Remember me to them and my other friends. God
bless you, my friend.
I am sincerely yours,
John Jay.
WILLIAM BINGHAM r TO JAY.
Philad., July i, 1780.
Dear Sir:
With great difficulty & repeated solicitations I procured
permission from Congress to return here, and arrived in the
frigate Confedaracy the beginning of May. Previous to my
departure, I addressed you several letters from Martinico
which I hope you have received. It has given me peculiar
pleasure to hear of your safe arrival at Cadiz, and of the
favorable reception you are like to meet with at the court of
Madrid.
The sentiments of the people of this country I found
surprisingly altered since I left it; they were no longer
governed by that pure, disinterested patriotism, which distinguished the Infancy of the contest; private Interest
seemed to predominate over every Consideration that
regarded the public weal. It was necessary that they should
experience some signal misfortune to rouse them into
activity. The loss of Charleston and its important garrison has in a great measure had that effect, and I am happy
to see the spirit of the people begin to rise on the discovery
of their danger and actual situation. But what was near to
prove of very fatal consequence was the state of our finances,
which by not being properly organized and established on a
1 Agent of Continental Congress at Martinique.
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 1 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000395 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 364 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. your taxes paid ? Do the people continue firm ? A few more glorious exertions will give them peace, liberty, and safety. What says Vermont ? Tell me how your mother and brothers do. Remember me to them and my other friends. God bless you, my friend. I am sincerely yours, John Jay. WILLIAM BINGHAM r TO JAY. Philad., July i, 1780. Dear Sir: With great difficulty & repeated solicitations I procured permission from Congress to return here, and arrived in the frigate Confedaracy the beginning of May. Previous to my departure, I addressed you several letters from Martinico which I hope you have received. It has given me peculiar pleasure to hear of your safe arrival at Cadiz, and of the favorable reception you are like to meet with at the court of Madrid. The sentiments of the people of this country I found surprisingly altered since I left it; they were no longer governed by that pure, disinterested patriotism, which distinguished the Infancy of the contest; private Interest seemed to predominate over every Consideration that regarded the public weal. It was necessary that they should experience some signal misfortune to rouse them into activity. The loss of Charleston and its important garrison has in a great measure had that effect, and I am happy to see the spirit of the people begin to rise on the discovery of their danger and actual situation. But what was near to prove of very fatal consequence was the state of our finances, which by not being properly organized and established on a 1 Agent of Continental Congress at Martinique. |
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