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JOHN QUINCY ADAMS TO J A Y. 155
municate. The suppression of the insurrection, the return
of conciliatory dispositions, the growing prosperity of commerce, and the prevalence of national principles, demonstrated by the re-election of good men for the ensuing
Legislature, are all promising indications that our country
will get to be flourishing, united, and happy.
The friendly dispositions, of which the result of your late
negociation, and your observations since that period have
tended to confirm your opinion, give us an additional
ground of satisfaction. It may be expected that the treaty
has by this time arrived in America. It is my cordial wish
and hope that it will be received with a temper similar to
that which formed and acceded to its arrangements, with
that combination of firmness and of generosity which is so
well calculated to terminate with honour our foreign differences, and which has so happily succeeded in suppressing
internal dissension.
The value of peace and neutrality is nowhere more forcibly felt than at this moment in the country where I am.
Its situation becomes more and more critical from day to
day. In the terrible agitation between the dismal alternative of conquest or civil war, it feels at the same moment
all the terrors of a torrent rushing from without, and a
volcano bursting from within.
The alarm at this place is great. The emigrants who
have the means are hurrying away. The British Ambassador is gone to meet the future Princess of Wales; the
Spanish, Portuguese, and Prussian Ministers are gone. But
the Stadtholder and his family still remain, determined, it
is said, to stay at all events, and partake of the common
destiny. There is yet no intelligence from the Commissioners gone to Paris. Some hopes are still entertained of
their success, which are strengthened by the moderate and
rainy weather, which will impede for the moment the further progress of the French armies.
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 4 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons |
| Place of Publication | New York, London |
| Date | [1890-93] |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000182 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | JOHN QUINCY ADAMS TO J A Y. 155 municate. The suppression of the insurrection, the return of conciliatory dispositions, the growing prosperity of commerce, and the prevalence of national principles, demonstrated by the re-election of good men for the ensuing Legislature, are all promising indications that our country will get to be flourishing, united, and happy. The friendly dispositions, of which the result of your late negociation, and your observations since that period have tended to confirm your opinion, give us an additional ground of satisfaction. It may be expected that the treaty has by this time arrived in America. It is my cordial wish and hope that it will be received with a temper similar to that which formed and acceded to its arrangements, with that combination of firmness and of generosity which is so well calculated to terminate with honour our foreign differences, and which has so happily succeeded in suppressing internal dissension. The value of peace and neutrality is nowhere more forcibly felt than at this moment in the country where I am. Its situation becomes more and more critical from day to day. In the terrible agitation between the dismal alternative of conquest or civil war, it feels at the same moment all the terrors of a torrent rushing from without, and a volcano bursting from within. The alarm at this place is great. The emigrants who have the means are hurrying away. The British Ambassador is gone to meet the future Princess of Wales; the Spanish, Portuguese, and Prussian Ministers are gone. But the Stadtholder and his family still remain, determined, it is said, to stay at all events, and partake of the common destiny. There is yet no intelligence from the Commissioners gone to Paris. Some hopes are still entertained of their success, which are strengthened by the moderate and rainy weather, which will impede for the moment the further progress of the French armies. |
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