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286 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
my duty, and ought to be my conduct, on this unexpected and interesting occasion. I find that, independent of other considerations, the state of my health
removes every doubt, it being clearly and decidedly
incompetent to the fatigues incident to the office.
Accept my warmest acknowledgments for the honour
you have done me, and permit me to assure you of
the respect, esteem, and regard with which I am,
Dear sir, etc.,
John Jay.
COMMITTEE OF FEDERAL FREEHOLDERS OF THE CITY
OF NEW YORK TO GOVERNOR JAY.
New York, 13th January, 1801.
Sir :
Our feelings too well accord with those that dictated the
resolutions of which we have the honor to transmit a copy,
not to render the execution of the task committed to us
particularly agreeable.
We have been long accustomed to contemplate, with
sentiments of exalted satisfaction, the virtues, public and
private, which adorn your character, and the distinguished
talents and services which place you in the first rank of citizens
eminently useful to their Country. To attempt to retrace
the variety of arduous and honorable exertions which have
marked your public career, would be an office to which we
do not feel ourselves equal. Neither does it require our
testimony to record, what will ever find an indelible memorial in the minds and hearts of the enlightened and just,
that in the great events which accomplished the American
Revolution, you were among the most conspicuous, and
| 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 | 00000313 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 286 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. my duty, and ought to be my conduct, on this unexpected and interesting occasion. I find that, independent of other considerations, the state of my health removes every doubt, it being clearly and decidedly incompetent to the fatigues incident to the office. Accept my warmest acknowledgments for the honour you have done me, and permit me to assure you of the respect, esteem, and regard with which I am, Dear sir, etc., John Jay. COMMITTEE OF FEDERAL FREEHOLDERS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK TO GOVERNOR JAY. New York, 13th January, 1801. Sir : Our feelings too well accord with those that dictated the resolutions of which we have the honor to transmit a copy, not to render the execution of the task committed to us particularly agreeable. We have been long accustomed to contemplate, with sentiments of exalted satisfaction, the virtues, public and private, which adorn your character, and the distinguished talents and services which place you in the first rank of citizens eminently useful to their Country. To attempt to retrace the variety of arduous and honorable exertions which have marked your public career, would be an office to which we do not feel ourselves equal. Neither does it require our testimony to record, what will ever find an indelible memorial in the minds and hearts of the enlightened and just, that in the great events which accomplished the American Revolution, you were among the most conspicuous, and |
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