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344 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
never had a share in any proceedings of mine against
you ; from such thorns no man could expect to gather
grapes, and the only consolation that can grow in
their unkindly shade is a consciousness of doing one's
duty and the reflection that, as on the one hand I
have uniformly preferred the public weal to my
friends and connections, so on the other I have
never been urged by private resentments to injure a
single individual. Your judgment and consequently
your conscience differed from mine on a very important question; but though, as an independent
American, I considered all who were not for us, and
you among the rest, as against us, yet be assured
that John Jay did not cease to be a friend to Peter
Van Schaack. No one can serve two masters.
Either Britain was right and America wrong, or
America was right and Britain wrong. They who
thought Britain right were bound to support her, and
America had a just claim to the services of those who
approved her Cause. Hence it became our duty to
take one side or the other, and no man is to be
blamed for preferring the one which his reason recommended as the most just and virtuous.
Several of our countrymen indeed left and took
arms against us, not from any such principles, but
from the most dishonourable of human motives.
Their conduct has been of a piece with their inducements, for they have far outstripped savages in perfidy
and cruelty. Against these men every American must
set his face and steel his heart. There are others of
them, though not many, who, I believe, opposed us
because they thought they could not conscientiously
| 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 | 00000365 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 344 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. never had a share in any proceedings of mine against you ; from such thorns no man could expect to gather grapes, and the only consolation that can grow in their unkindly shade is a consciousness of doing one's duty and the reflection that, as on the one hand I have uniformly preferred the public weal to my friends and connections, so on the other I have never been urged by private resentments to injure a single individual. Your judgment and consequently your conscience differed from mine on a very important question; but though, as an independent American, I considered all who were not for us, and you among the rest, as against us, yet be assured that John Jay did not cease to be a friend to Peter Van Schaack. No one can serve two masters. Either Britain was right and America wrong, or America was right and Britain wrong. They who thought Britain right were bound to support her, and America had a just claim to the services of those who approved her Cause. Hence it became our duty to take one side or the other, and no man is to be blamed for preferring the one which his reason recommended as the most just and virtuous. Several of our countrymen indeed left and took arms against us, not from any such principles, but from the most dishonourable of human motives. Their conduct has been of a piece with their inducements, for they have far outstripped savages in perfidy and cruelty. Against these men every American must set his face and steel his heart. There are others of them, though not many, who, I believe, opposed us because they thought they could not conscientiously |
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