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TO THE PEOPLE OF NEW YORK. 315
new Cromwells to bold exploits. Are we certain that
our foreign creditors will continue patient, and ready
to proportion their forbearance to our dejays ? Are
we sure that our distresses, dissensions, and weakness
will neither invite hostility nor insult ? If they should,
how ill prepared shall we be for defence, without
union, without government, without money, and without credit!
It seems necessary to remind you that some time
must yet elapse before all the States will have decided
on the present plan. If they reject it, some time
must also pass before the measure of a new Convention can be brought about and generally agreed to.
A further space of time will then be requisite to elect
their deputies, and send them on to Convention.
What time they may expend, when met, cannot be
divined; and it is equally uncertain how much time
the several States may take to deliberate and decide
on any plan they may recommend. If adopted, still
a further space of time will be necessary to organize
and set it in motion. In the meantime, our affairs
are daily going from bad to worse ; and it is not rash
to say that our distresses are accumulating like compound interest.
But if, for reasons already mentioned, and others
that we cannot now perceive, the new Convention,
instead of producing a better plan, should give us
only a history of our disputes, or should offer us one
still less pleasing than the present, where should we
be ? Then the old Confederation has done its best,
and cannot help us ; and is now so relaxed and feeble,
| 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 | 00000350 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | TO THE PEOPLE OF NEW YORK. 315 new Cromwells to bold exploits. Are we certain that our foreign creditors will continue patient, and ready to proportion their forbearance to our dejays ? Are we sure that our distresses, dissensions, and weakness will neither invite hostility nor insult ? If they should, how ill prepared shall we be for defence, without union, without government, without money, and without credit! It seems necessary to remind you that some time must yet elapse before all the States will have decided on the present plan. If they reject it, some time must also pass before the measure of a new Convention can be brought about and generally agreed to. A further space of time will then be requisite to elect their deputies, and send them on to Convention. What time they may expend, when met, cannot be divined; and it is equally uncertain how much time the several States may take to deliberate and decide on any plan they may recommend. If adopted, still a further space of time will be necessary to organize and set it in motion. In the meantime, our affairs are daily going from bad to worse ; and it is not rash to say that our distresses are accumulating like compound interest. But if, for reasons already mentioned, and others that we cannot now perceive, the new Convention, instead of producing a better plan, should give us only a history of our disputes, or should offer us one still less pleasing than the present, where should we be ? Then the old Confederation has done its best, and cannot help us ; and is now so relaxed and feeble, |
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