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FEDERALIST PAPERS. 275
any of them will rejoice to see it flourish : for as our
carrying trade cannot increase, without in some degree diminishing theirs, it is more their interest, and
will be more their policy, to restrain than to promote it.
In the trade to China and India, we interfere with
more than one nation, inasmuch as it enables us to
partake in advantages which they had in a manner
monopolized, and as we thereby supply ourselves
with commodities which we used to purchase from
them.
The extension of our own commerce in our own
vessels cannot give pleasure to any nations who possess territories on or near this continent, because the
cheapness and excellence of our productions, added
to the circumstance of vicinity, and the enterprise and
address of our merchants and navigators, will give us
a greater share in the advantages which those territories afford, than consists with the wishes or policy
of their respective Sovereigns.
Spain thinks it convenient to shut the Mississippi
a'gainst us on the one side, and Britain excludes us
from the Saint Lawrence on the other; nor will either
of them permit the other waters, which are between
them and us, to become the means of mutual intercourse and traffic.
From these and such like considerations, which
might, if consistent with prudence, be more amplified
and detailed, it is easy to see that jealousies and uneasinesses may gradually slide into the minds and
cabinets of other nations ; and that we are not to ex-
| 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 | 00000310 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | FEDERALIST PAPERS. 275 any of them will rejoice to see it flourish : for as our carrying trade cannot increase, without in some degree diminishing theirs, it is more their interest, and will be more their policy, to restrain than to promote it. In the trade to China and India, we interfere with more than one nation, inasmuch as it enables us to partake in advantages which they had in a manner monopolized, and as we thereby supply ourselves with commodities which we used to purchase from them. The extension of our own commerce in our own vessels cannot give pleasure to any nations who possess territories on or near this continent, because the cheapness and excellence of our productions, added to the circumstance of vicinity, and the enterprise and address of our merchants and navigators, will give us a greater share in the advantages which those territories afford, than consists with the wishes or policy of their respective Sovereigns. Spain thinks it convenient to shut the Mississippi a'gainst us on the one side, and Britain excludes us from the Saint Lawrence on the other; nor will either of them permit the other waters, which are between them and us, to become the means of mutual intercourse and traffic. From these and such like considerations, which might, if consistent with prudence, be more amplified and detailed, it is easy to see that jealousies and uneasinesses may gradually slide into the minds and cabinets of other nations ; and that we are not to ex- |
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