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186 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
you and others to promote this desirable end, the
reflection that they are prompted by the best motives
affords good reasons for persevering in them.
I am, sir, your most obedient and humble servant,
John Jay.
JAY TO GENERAL WASHINGTON.
New York, March 16, 1786.
Dear Sir:
Although you have wisely retired from public employment, and calmly view from the temple of fame
the various exertions of that sovereignty and independence which Providence has enabled you to be so
greatly and gloriously instrumental in securing to
your country, yet I am persuaded that you cannot
view them with the eye of an unconcerned spectator.
Experience has pointed out errors in our national
government which call for correction, and which
threaten to blast the fruit we expected from our tree
of liberty. The convention proposed by Virginia
may do some good, and would perhaps do more if it
comprehended more objects. An opinion begins
to prevail that a general Convention for revising
the Articles of Confederation would be expedient.
Whether the people are yet ripe for such a measure,
or whether the system proposed to be attained by it
is only to be expected from calamity and commotion,
is difficult to ascertain. I think we are in a delicate
situation, and a variety of considerations and circumstances give me uneasiness.
| 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 | 00000221 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 186 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. you and others to promote this desirable end, the reflection that they are prompted by the best motives affords good reasons for persevering in them. I am, sir, your most obedient and humble servant, John Jay. JAY TO GENERAL WASHINGTON. New York, March 16, 1786. Dear Sir: Although you have wisely retired from public employment, and calmly view from the temple of fame the various exertions of that sovereignty and independence which Providence has enabled you to be so greatly and gloriously instrumental in securing to your country, yet I am persuaded that you cannot view them with the eye of an unconcerned spectator. Experience has pointed out errors in our national government which call for correction, and which threaten to blast the fruit we expected from our tree of liberty. The convention proposed by Virginia may do some good, and would perhaps do more if it comprehended more objects. An opinion begins to prevail that a general Convention for revising the Articles of Confederation would be expedient. Whether the people are yet ripe for such a measure, or whether the system proposed to be attained by it is only to be expected from calamity and commotion, is difficult to ascertain. I think we are in a delicate situation, and a variety of considerations and circumstances give me uneasiness. |
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