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JAY TO TAMMANY SOCIETY. 213
ulate you on the tranquil session, just closed in your State,
and upon the good dispositions, generally, which I am informed prevail among the citizens thereof.
With most friendly sentiments I remain, dear Sir,
Your obedient and affectionate Servant,
Geo. Washington.
JAY TO TAMMANY SOCIETY.
The Governor has taken into consideration the
request signified to him by a committee of the Tammany Society in this city : That he would order the
flags on Governor's Island, and also on the Battery,
to be hoisted on the day of their anniversary, vizt.
the 12th May instant. It appears to him that if such
a compliment be paid to the Tammany, it ought not
to be refused to any other of the numerous societies
in this city and State. Arbitrary preferences would
be partial and unjust, and to discriminate on any
principle of comparative utility or respectability-
would be a task too invidious to be undertaken for
an object like the present. He doubts the policy and
prudence of making such marks of public respect
more general than they now are ; and thinking it his
duty to observe the limits which usage and acknowledged propriety prescribe, he presumes that his
declining to give the orders in question will, on being
maturely considered, meet with approbation.
New York, nth May, 1796.
The President and Members of the Tammany Society
in the City of New York.
| 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 | 00000240 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | JAY TO TAMMANY SOCIETY. 213 ulate you on the tranquil session, just closed in your State, and upon the good dispositions, generally, which I am informed prevail among the citizens thereof. With most friendly sentiments I remain, dear Sir, Your obedient and affectionate Servant, Geo. Washington. JAY TO TAMMANY SOCIETY. The Governor has taken into consideration the request signified to him by a committee of the Tammany Society in this city : That he would order the flags on Governor's Island, and also on the Battery, to be hoisted on the day of their anniversary, vizt. the 12th May instant. It appears to him that if such a compliment be paid to the Tammany, it ought not to be refused to any other of the numerous societies in this city and State. Arbitrary preferences would be partial and unjust, and to discriminate on any principle of comparative utility or respectability- would be a task too invidious to be undertaken for an object like the present. He doubts the policy and prudence of making such marks of public respect more general than they now are ; and thinking it his duty to observe the limits which usage and acknowledged propriety prescribe, he presumes that his declining to give the orders in question will, on being maturely considered, meet with approbation. New York, nth May, 1796. The President and Members of the Tammany Society in the City of New York. |
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