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54 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
suaded he will do all in his power for your relief, and
that the distinguished manner in which you have
served our country will always be considered as giving
you a title to her care and protection.
Not being authorized by Congress to provide for
American prisoners in England, I could not justify
undertaking it, and therefore referred your application
to Dr. Franklin, within whose department that business appears to me to fall.
I shall always be ready as an individual to contribute to the relief of my distressed countrymen, and
should now give you proof of it; but as your case and
that of your fellow-prisoners ought to be, and probably
are, provided for by the public, I think assistance
should there be asked and denied, before it can become the duty of private benevolence to supply public
omissions.
If the application to Dr. Franklin should be fruitless, I shall then consider myself bound, as a good
American, to contribute towards the relief of a fellow-
citizen, who has so nobly fought in the cause of our
country; and I shall in that case desire Mr. Williams,
at Nantz, who forwarded your letter to me, to advance
you fifty dollars on my private account; which sum
you will repay to me whenever you may be in circumstances to do it, for should misfortune delay or
prevent your being in that situation, it would be more
agreeable to me to advance you a farther sum, than to
demand the repayment of this.
I am, sir, with real esteem,
Your most obedient and very humble servant,
John Jay.
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 2 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons |
| Place of Publication | New York, London |
| Date | [1890-93] |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000075 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 54 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. suaded he will do all in his power for your relief, and that the distinguished manner in which you have served our country will always be considered as giving you a title to her care and protection. Not being authorized by Congress to provide for American prisoners in England, I could not justify undertaking it, and therefore referred your application to Dr. Franklin, within whose department that business appears to me to fall. I shall always be ready as an individual to contribute to the relief of my distressed countrymen, and should now give you proof of it; but as your case and that of your fellow-prisoners ought to be, and probably are, provided for by the public, I think assistance should there be asked and denied, before it can become the duty of private benevolence to supply public omissions. If the application to Dr. Franklin should be fruitless, I shall then consider myself bound, as a good American, to contribute towards the relief of a fellow- citizen, who has so nobly fought in the cause of our country; and I shall in that case desire Mr. Williams, at Nantz, who forwarded your letter to me, to advance you fifty dollars on my private account; which sum you will repay to me whenever you may be in circumstances to do it, for should misfortune delay or prevent your being in that situation, it would be more agreeable to me to advance you a farther sum, than to demand the repayment of this. I am, sir, with real esteem, Your most obedient and very humble servant, John Jay. |
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