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3o4 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
Here the business became complicated, and presented
a wide field for investigation—too wide for every eye
to take a quick and comprehensive view of it.
It is said that " in a multitude of counsellors there
is safety/' because, in the first place, there is greater
security for probity ; and in the next, if every member cast in only his mite of information and argument, their joint stock of both will thereby be greater
than the stock possessed by any one single man out-
of-doors. Gentlemen out-of-doors, therefore, should
not be hasty in condemning a system which probably
rests on more good reasons than they are aware of,
especially when formed under such advantages, and
recommended by so many men of distinguished worth
and abilities.
The difficulties before mentioned occupied the
Convention a long time ; and it was not without mutual concessions that they were at last surmounted.
These concessions serve to explain to us the reason
why some parts of the system please in some States
which displease in others, and why many of the objections which have been made to it are so contradictory and inconsistent with one another. It does great
credit to the temper and talents of the Convention
that they were able so to reconcile the different views
and interests of the different States, and the clashing
opinions of their members, as to unite with such
singular and almost perfect unanimity in any plan
whatever on a subject so intricate and perplexed.
It shows that it must have been thoroughly discussed and understood ; and probably if the com-
| 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 | 00000339 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 3o4 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. Here the business became complicated, and presented a wide field for investigation—too wide for every eye to take a quick and comprehensive view of it. It is said that " in a multitude of counsellors there is safety/' because, in the first place, there is greater security for probity ; and in the next, if every member cast in only his mite of information and argument, their joint stock of both will thereby be greater than the stock possessed by any one single man out- of-doors. Gentlemen out-of-doors, therefore, should not be hasty in condemning a system which probably rests on more good reasons than they are aware of, especially when formed under such advantages, and recommended by so many men of distinguished worth and abilities. The difficulties before mentioned occupied the Convention a long time ; and it was not without mutual concessions that they were at last surmounted. These concessions serve to explain to us the reason why some parts of the system please in some States which displease in others, and why many of the objections which have been made to it are so contradictory and inconsistent with one another. It does great credit to the temper and talents of the Convention that they were able so to reconcile the different views and interests of the different States, and the clashing opinions of their members, as to unite with such singular and almost perfect unanimity in any plan whatever on a subject so intricate and perplexed. It shows that it must have been thoroughly discussed and understood ; and probably if the com- |
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