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JAY'S REPLY TO NEW YORK COMMITTEE. 443
sacrifices and efforts in the cause of liberty, which
distinguished this State during the late war, my
feelings are very sensibly affected by the favourable
light in which you regard my conduct during that
interesting period. That cause was patronized by
Him who gave to men the rights we claimed. He
crowned it with success, and made it instrumental to
our enjoying a degree of national prosperity unknown
to any other people. May it be perpetual ! Such is
our Constitution, and such are the means of preserving order and good government, with which we are
blessed, that, while our citizens remain virtuous, free,
and enlightened, few political evils can occur, for
which remedies perfectly effectual, and yet perfectly
consistent with general tranquillity, cannot be found
and applied.
I derive great satisfaction from the hope and
expectation that the event which at present excites
so much alarm and anxiety, will give occasion only to
such measures as patriotism may direct and justify ;
and that the vigilance and wisdom of the people will
always afford to their rights that protection for which
other countries, less informed, have often too precipitately recurred to violence and commotion.
In questions touching our constitutional privileges,
all the citizens are equally interested ; and the social
duties call upon us to unite in discussing those questions with candour and 'temper, in deciding them
with circumspection and impartiality, and in maintaining the equal rights of all with constancy and
fortitude.
| 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 | 00000478 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | JAY'S REPLY TO NEW YORK COMMITTEE. 443 sacrifices and efforts in the cause of liberty, which distinguished this State during the late war, my feelings are very sensibly affected by the favourable light in which you regard my conduct during that interesting period. That cause was patronized by Him who gave to men the rights we claimed. He crowned it with success, and made it instrumental to our enjoying a degree of national prosperity unknown to any other people. May it be perpetual ! Such is our Constitution, and such are the means of preserving order and good government, with which we are blessed, that, while our citizens remain virtuous, free, and enlightened, few political evils can occur, for which remedies perfectly effectual, and yet perfectly consistent with general tranquillity, cannot be found and applied. I derive great satisfaction from the hope and expectation that the event which at present excites so much alarm and anxiety, will give occasion only to such measures as patriotism may direct and justify ; and that the vigilance and wisdom of the people will always afford to their rights that protection for which other countries, less informed, have often too precipitately recurred to violence and commotion. In questions touching our constitutional privileges, all the citizens are equally interested ; and the social duties call upon us to unite in discussing those questions with candour and 'temper, in deciding them with circumspection and impartiality, and in maintaining the equal rights of all with constancy and fortitude. |
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