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Ti2 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
whom I have heard speak on the subject, either do
credit to those who formed and patronized or to those
who suffered it.
I am indebted to our excellent friend, Robert Morris, for a very obliging letter. He shall soon hear
from me. In the meantime let him share with you in
this adieu.
Yours sincerely,
John Jay.
GENERAL SCHUYLER TO JAY.
New-York, Feb. 18th, 1784.
Dear Sir :
By Colonel Hamilton, who made me a visit at Albany on
the 26th instant, I had the pleasure of your favour of the
16th September last. Persuaded you never convey sentiments to your friends, which flow merely from the head,
and in which the heart does not participate, I have not
words to express how pleasingly mine was affected in the
perusal.
I think I hear you wish to be advised of what is passing
in your native country, at a juncture when the decisions of
government must determine the philosophers and politicians
of Europe to form their opinion of our wisdom or our folly.
Having been exceedingly indisposed, I have not attended
until a few days ago, and am consequently, as yet, not in a
situation to speak decidedly ; but I have reason to apprehend, however, from the complexion of the members, that
our conduct will be such as to afford occasion to the friends
of mankind to drop a tear on the intemperance of mankind;
and to reflect, with pain, that a people who have hardly
been emancipated from a threatened tyranny, forgetting
how odious oppression appeared to them, begin to play the
| 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 | 00000147 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | Ti2 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. whom I have heard speak on the subject, either do credit to those who formed and patronized or to those who suffered it. I am indebted to our excellent friend, Robert Morris, for a very obliging letter. He shall soon hear from me. In the meantime let him share with you in this adieu. Yours sincerely, John Jay. GENERAL SCHUYLER TO JAY. New-York, Feb. 18th, 1784. Dear Sir : By Colonel Hamilton, who made me a visit at Albany on the 26th instant, I had the pleasure of your favour of the 16th September last. Persuaded you never convey sentiments to your friends, which flow merely from the head, and in which the heart does not participate, I have not words to express how pleasingly mine was affected in the perusal. I think I hear you wish to be advised of what is passing in your native country, at a juncture when the decisions of government must determine the philosophers and politicians of Europe to form their opinion of our wisdom or our folly. Having been exceedingly indisposed, I have not attended until a few days ago, and am consequently, as yet, not in a situation to speak decidedly ; but I have reason to apprehend, however, from the complexion of the members, that our conduct will be such as to afford occasion to the friends of mankind to drop a tear on the intemperance of mankind; and to reflect, with pain, that a people who have hardly been emancipated from a threatened tyranny, forgetting how odious oppression appeared to them, begin to play the |
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