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TO THE PEOPLE OF NEW YORK. 305
munity at large had the same lights and reasons
before them they would, if equally candid and uninfluenced, be equally unanimous.
It would be arduous, and indeed impossible, to comprise within the limits of this address a full discussion
of every part of the plan. Such a task would require
a volume ; and few men have leisure or inclination to
read volumes on any subject. The objections made
to it are almost without number, and many of them
without reason. Some of them are real and honest,
and others merely ostensible. There are friends to
union and a national government who have serious
doubts, who wish to be informed and to be convinced ;
and there are others who, neither wishing for union
nor any national government at all, will oppose and
object to any plan that can be contrived.
We are told, among other strange things, that the
liberty of the press is left insecure by the proposed
Constitution ; and yet that Constitution says neither
more nor less about it than the constitution of the
State of New York does. We are told that it deprives us of trial by jury ; whereas the1 fact is, that it
expressly secures it in certain cases, and takes it away
in none. It is absurd to construe the silence of this,
or of our own constitution, relative to a great number of our rights, into a total extinction of them.
Silence and blank paper neither grant nor take
away anything. Complaints are also made that the
proposed Constitution is not accompanied by a bill
of rights ; and yet they who make the complaints
know, and are content, that no bill of rights accom-
Vol III—20
| 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 | 00000340 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | TO THE PEOPLE OF NEW YORK. 305 munity at large had the same lights and reasons before them they would, if equally candid and uninfluenced, be equally unanimous. It would be arduous, and indeed impossible, to comprise within the limits of this address a full discussion of every part of the plan. Such a task would require a volume ; and few men have leisure or inclination to read volumes on any subject. The objections made to it are almost without number, and many of them without reason. Some of them are real and honest, and others merely ostensible. There are friends to union and a national government who have serious doubts, who wish to be informed and to be convinced ; and there are others who, neither wishing for union nor any national government at all, will oppose and object to any plan that can be contrived. We are told, among other strange things, that the liberty of the press is left insecure by the proposed Constitution ; and yet that Constitution says neither more nor less about it than the constitution of the State of New York does. We are told that it deprives us of trial by jury ; whereas the1 fact is, that it expressly secures it in certain cases, and takes it away in none. It is absurd to construe the silence of this, or of our own constitution, relative to a great number of our rights, into a total extinction of them. Silence and blank paper neither grant nor take away anything. Complaints are also made that the proposed Constitution is not accompanied by a bill of rights ; and yet they who make the complaints know, and are content, that no bill of rights accom- Vol III—20 |
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