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TO THE PEOPLE OF NEW YORK. 307
being able seasonably to obtain a better, is such as to
render it prudent or desirable to reject this and run
the risk. Candidly to consider this question, is the
design of this address.
As the importance of this question must be obvious
to every man, whatever his private opinions may be,
it becomes us all to treat it in that calm and temperate manner which a subject so deeply interesting to
the future welfare of our country and propriety requires. Let us therefore, as much as possible, repress
and compose that irritation in our minds which too
warm disputes about it may have excited. Let us
endeavour to forget that this or that man is on this or
that side ; and that we ourselves, perhaps without
sufficient reflection, have classed ourselves with one
or the other party. Let us remember that this is not
a matter that only touches our local parties, but as
one so great, so general, and so extensive, in its future
consequence to America, that, for our deciding upon
it according to the best of our unbiased judgment, we
must be highly responsible both here and hereafter.
The question now before us naturally leads to three
inquiries:
1. Whether it is probable that a better plan can be
obtained.
2. Whether, if attainable, it is likely to be in
season.
3. What would be our situation if, after rejecting
this, all our efforts to obtain a better should prove
fruitless.
The men who formed this plan are Americans, who
| 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 | 00000342 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | TO THE PEOPLE OF NEW YORK. 307 being able seasonably to obtain a better, is such as to render it prudent or desirable to reject this and run the risk. Candidly to consider this question, is the design of this address. As the importance of this question must be obvious to every man, whatever his private opinions may be, it becomes us all to treat it in that calm and temperate manner which a subject so deeply interesting to the future welfare of our country and propriety requires. Let us therefore, as much as possible, repress and compose that irritation in our minds which too warm disputes about it may have excited. Let us endeavour to forget that this or that man is on this or that side ; and that we ourselves, perhaps without sufficient reflection, have classed ourselves with one or the other party. Let us remember that this is not a matter that only touches our local parties, but as one so great, so general, and so extensive, in its future consequence to America, that, for our deciding upon it according to the best of our unbiased judgment, we must be highly responsible both here and hereafter. The question now before us naturally leads to three inquiries: 1. Whether it is probable that a better plan can be obtained. 2. Whether, if attainable, it is likely to be in season. 3. What would be our situation if, after rejecting this, all our efforts to obtain a better should prove fruitless. The men who formed this plan are Americans, who |
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