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TO THE PEOPLE OF NEW YORK. 311
must have observed that the same temper and equanimity which prevailed among the people on former
occasions no longer exist. We have unhappily become divided into parties, and this important subject
has been handled with such indiscreet and offensive
acrimony, and with so many little unhandsome artifices and misrepresentations, that pernicious heats and
animosities have been kindled, and spread their flames
far and wide among us. When, therefore, it becomes
a question who shall be deputed to the new Convention, we cannot flatter ourselves that the talents and
integrity of the candidates will determine who shall
be elected. Federal electors will vote for federal
deputies, and anti-federal electors for anti-federal
ones. Nor will either party prefer the most moderate of their adherents ; for, as the most staunch and
active partisans will be the most popular, so the men
most willing and able to carry points, to oppose
and divide and embarrass their opponents, will be
chosen. A Convention formed at such a season, and
of such men, would be too exact an epitome of the
great body that named them. The same party views,
the same propensity to opposition, the same distrusts
and jealousies, and the same unaccommodating spirit
which prevail without, would be concentrated and
ferment with still greater violence within. Each
deputy would recollect who sent him, and why he was
sent, and be too apt to consider himself bound in
honour to contend and act vigorously under the standard of his party, and not to hazard their displeasure
by preferring compromise to victory. As vice does
| 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 | 00000346 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | TO THE PEOPLE OF NEW YORK. 311 must have observed that the same temper and equanimity which prevailed among the people on former occasions no longer exist. We have unhappily become divided into parties, and this important subject has been handled with such indiscreet and offensive acrimony, and with so many little unhandsome artifices and misrepresentations, that pernicious heats and animosities have been kindled, and spread their flames far and wide among us. When, therefore, it becomes a question who shall be deputed to the new Convention, we cannot flatter ourselves that the talents and integrity of the candidates will determine who shall be elected. Federal electors will vote for federal deputies, and anti-federal electors for anti-federal ones. Nor will either party prefer the most moderate of their adherents ; for, as the most staunch and active partisans will be the most popular, so the men most willing and able to carry points, to oppose and divide and embarrass their opponents, will be chosen. A Convention formed at such a season, and of such men, would be too exact an epitome of the great body that named them. The same party views, the same propensity to opposition, the same distrusts and jealousies, and the same unaccommodating spirit which prevail without, would be concentrated and ferment with still greater violence within. Each deputy would recollect who sent him, and why he was sent, and be too apt to consider himself bound in honour to contend and act vigorously under the standard of his party, and not to hazard their displeasure by preferring compromise to victory. As vice does |
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