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272 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
intrinsic nature it is justified by unequivocal reasons of
public safety. The reasonable part of the world will, I believe, approve it. They will see it as a proceeding out of
the common course but warranted by the particular nature
of the crisis and the great cause of social order. If done
the motive ought to be frankly avowed. In your communication to the Legislature they ought to be told that temporary circumstances had rendered it probable that without
their interposition the executive authority of the General
Government would be transferred to hands hostile to the
system heretofore pursued with so much success and
dangerous to the peace, happiness and order of the country *
that under this impression from facts convincing to your
own mind you had thought it your duty to give the existing legislature an opportunity of deliberating whether it
would not be proper to interpose and endeavour to prevent
so great an evil by referring the choice of electors to the
people distributed into districts.
In weighing this suggestion you will doubtless bear in
mind that popular governments must certainly be overturned, and while they endure prove engines of mischief, if
one party will call to its aid all the resources which vice can
give, and if the other, however pressing the emergency,
confines itself within all the ordinary forms of delicacy and
decorum. The legislature can be brought together in three
weeks, so that there will be full time for the object; but
none ought to be lost.
Think well, my Dear Sir, of this proposition. Appreciate
the extreme danger of the crisis, and I am unusually mistaken in my view of the matter if you do not see it right
and proper to adopt the measure.
Respectfully and affectionately yours,
A. Hamilton.1
1 Jay endorsed this letter : " Proposing a measure for party purposes, which.
I think it would not become me to adopt."
| 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 | 00000299 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 272 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. intrinsic nature it is justified by unequivocal reasons of public safety. The reasonable part of the world will, I believe, approve it. They will see it as a proceeding out of the common course but warranted by the particular nature of the crisis and the great cause of social order. If done the motive ought to be frankly avowed. In your communication to the Legislature they ought to be told that temporary circumstances had rendered it probable that without their interposition the executive authority of the General Government would be transferred to hands hostile to the system heretofore pursued with so much success and dangerous to the peace, happiness and order of the country * that under this impression from facts convincing to your own mind you had thought it your duty to give the existing legislature an opportunity of deliberating whether it would not be proper to interpose and endeavour to prevent so great an evil by referring the choice of electors to the people distributed into districts. In weighing this suggestion you will doubtless bear in mind that popular governments must certainly be overturned, and while they endure prove engines of mischief, if one party will call to its aid all the resources which vice can give, and if the other, however pressing the emergency, confines itself within all the ordinary forms of delicacy and decorum. The legislature can be brought together in three weeks, so that there will be full time for the object; but none ought to be lost. Think well, my Dear Sir, of this proposition. Appreciate the extreme danger of the crisis, and I am unusually mistaken in my view of the matter if you do not see it right and proper to adopt the measure. Respectfully and affectionately yours, A. Hamilton.1 1 Jay endorsed this letter : " Proposing a measure for party purposes, which. I think it would not become me to adopt." |
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