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86 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
but I confess that I do not very clearly see how it can prove
advantageous either to yourself or to your Country if, as
you have written to others, the want of health is among the
reasons for your return, I cannot but doubly lament it.
Remember me affectionately to all my friends who may be
in your circle of acquaintance and particularly present my
love to Mrs. Jay.
The British employ themselves about the evacuation of
New York, but that business goes on slowly. I am however
informed from tolerable authority that they will be gone by
the begining of November. If, as you suppose, the British
Ministry imagine that we cannot retaliate their restrictions,
they are deceived, for their conduct will itself give Congress
a power which they might not otherwise be possessed of.
Indeed my friend nothing can do us so much good as to
convince the eastern and southern States how necessary it
is to give proper force to the federal government; and
nothing will so soon operate that conviction as foreign
efforts to restrain the Navigation of the one, and the Commerce of the other. But for my own part, I have no desire
to retaliate commercial restrictions. It is my fixed opinion
that a Nation can by such restrictions do nothing more than
injure herself; nor is an injury the less because it affects
more the remote members than it does the head of the
empire. The sovereign may collect, and ought to have
revenue from all his dominions which are in condition to
afford it, but he acts weakly as well as wickedly if he
cramps one part of the community that he may draw more
easily the blood and juices from another part. The late
prohibition of trade with the British Islands, unless in British bottoms, can do us no harm and can do them no good.
Our produce they must and will have and if they employ
half a million in carrying on the navigation at a great
expence, which we should have performed at a less expence,
for two hundred thousand, our two hundred thousand will
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 3 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons |
| Place of Publication | New York, London |
| Date | [1890-93] |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000121 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 86 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. but I confess that I do not very clearly see how it can prove advantageous either to yourself or to your Country if, as you have written to others, the want of health is among the reasons for your return, I cannot but doubly lament it. Remember me affectionately to all my friends who may be in your circle of acquaintance and particularly present my love to Mrs. Jay. The British employ themselves about the evacuation of New York, but that business goes on slowly. I am however informed from tolerable authority that they will be gone by the begining of November. If, as you suppose, the British Ministry imagine that we cannot retaliate their restrictions, they are deceived, for their conduct will itself give Congress a power which they might not otherwise be possessed of. Indeed my friend nothing can do us so much good as to convince the eastern and southern States how necessary it is to give proper force to the federal government; and nothing will so soon operate that conviction as foreign efforts to restrain the Navigation of the one, and the Commerce of the other. But for my own part, I have no desire to retaliate commercial restrictions. It is my fixed opinion that a Nation can by such restrictions do nothing more than injure herself; nor is an injury the less because it affects more the remote members than it does the head of the empire. The sovereign may collect, and ought to have revenue from all his dominions which are in condition to afford it, but he acts weakly as well as wickedly if he cramps one part of the community that he may draw more easily the blood and juices from another part. The late prohibition of trade with the British Islands, unless in British bottoms, can do us no harm and can do them no good. Our produce they must and will have and if they employ half a million in carrying on the navigation at a great expence, which we should have performed at a less expence, for two hundred thousand, our two hundred thousand will |
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