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4o8 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
of public care. I have read your oration with pleasure.
The subject is a fine one, the field large, and you
have interspersed it with useful remarks and entertaining reflections. I put it into the hands of the
Count D'Estaing and the French ambassador. They
both said civil things of it.
The societyx have done me much honour by placing
me on the list of their members. I shall endeavour to
evince the sense I have of it, by now and then sending
them whatever I may find here worth their attention.
I congratulate you on the glorious spirit spreading
from your city through America. Your bank is the
subject of much conversation and encomium, and the
patriotism of the ladies renders them very celebrated.
Such marks of union and public spirit are worth a
victory. *To be respectable abroad we must be respectable at home, and the best way to gain friends is
to be formidable to our enemies. But you know these
things as well as I do, and I am persuaded your endeavours will not be wanting to place our country in
both these points of light. Dr. Foulke may rely on
my omitting no opportunity of being useful to him ;
we must take care of young Americans. Much depends on the rising generation, and no pains should
be spared to render them equal to the task that
devolves upon them.
Be assured that it will give me pleasure to continue this correspondence, and that I am, sir,
Your most obedient and humble servant,
John Jay.
JThe American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia.
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 1 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000439 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 4o8 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. of public care. I have read your oration with pleasure. The subject is a fine one, the field large, and you have interspersed it with useful remarks and entertaining reflections. I put it into the hands of the Count D'Estaing and the French ambassador. They both said civil things of it. The societyx have done me much honour by placing me on the list of their members. I shall endeavour to evince the sense I have of it, by now and then sending them whatever I may find here worth their attention. I congratulate you on the glorious spirit spreading from your city through America. Your bank is the subject of much conversation and encomium, and the patriotism of the ladies renders them very celebrated. Such marks of union and public spirit are worth a victory. *To be respectable abroad we must be respectable at home, and the best way to gain friends is to be formidable to our enemies. But you know these things as well as I do, and I am persuaded your endeavours will not be wanting to place our country in both these points of light. Dr. Foulke may rely on my omitting no opportunity of being useful to him ; we must take care of young Americans. Much depends on the rising generation, and no pains should be spared to render them equal to the task that devolves upon them. Be assured that it will give me pleasure to continue this correspondence, and that I am, sir, Your most obedient and humble servant, John Jay. JThe American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. |
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