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266 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
recommend only such measures as after the most
mature deliberation they really thought prudent and
desirable.
These and similar considerations then induced the
people to rely greatly on the judgment and integrity
of the Congress ; and they took their advice, notwithstanding the various arts and endeavors used to deter
and dissuade them from it. But if the people at
large had reason to confide in the men of that Con^
gress, few of whom had then been fully tried or generally known, still greater reason have they now to
respect the judgment and advice of the Convention,
for it is well known that some of the most distinguished members of that Congress, who have been
since tried and justly approved for patriotism and
abilities, and who have grown old in acquiring political information, were also members of this Convention, and carried into it their accumulated knowledge
and experience.
It is worthy of remark, that not only the first but
every succeeding Congress, as well as the late Convention, have invariably joined with the people in
thinking that the prosperity of America depended on
its Union. To preserve and perpetuate it was the
great object of the people in forming that Convention, and it is also the great object of the plan which
the Convention has advised them to adopt. With
what propriety, therefore, or for what good purposes,
are attempts at this particular period, made by some
men, to depreciate the importance of the Union ?
Or why is it suggested that three or four confedera-
| 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 | 00000301 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 266 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. recommend only such measures as after the most mature deliberation they really thought prudent and desirable. These and similar considerations then induced the people to rely greatly on the judgment and integrity of the Congress ; and they took their advice, notwithstanding the various arts and endeavors used to deter and dissuade them from it. But if the people at large had reason to confide in the men of that Con^ gress, few of whom had then been fully tried or generally known, still greater reason have they now to respect the judgment and advice of the Convention, for it is well known that some of the most distinguished members of that Congress, who have been since tried and justly approved for patriotism and abilities, and who have grown old in acquiring political information, were also members of this Convention, and carried into it their accumulated knowledge and experience. It is worthy of remark, that not only the first but every succeeding Congress, as well as the late Convention, have invariably joined with the people in thinking that the prosperity of America depended on its Union. To preserve and perpetuate it was the great object of the people in forming that Convention, and it is also the great object of the plan which the Convention has advised them to adopt. With what propriety, therefore, or for what good purposes, are attempts at this particular period, made by some men, to depreciate the importance of the Union ? Or why is it suggested that three or four confedera- |
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