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326 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
and be ready to go with him, under Divine guidance
and protection, to the promised land, yet great is the
number who prefer remaining in slavery and dying
in Egypt.
If this letter should reach you, be so good as to let
me know it, and name some person in London to
whose care I may transmit future ones for you.
With the best wishes for your health and happiness, and with real esteem and regard, I am,
dear sir,
Your faithful and obedient servant,
John Jay.
peter a. jay to jay.
New York, 23d February, 1810.
Dear Papa :
The Washington Society requested me to deliver an oration on their Anniversary, and as you advised me not to be
an insignificant Member, I was induced to consent, and
accordingly spoke one Yesterday. I have of course been
for some time busy in preparing it, and have on that
account pressed the furnace business less than I should
otherwise have done. The Celebration of yesterday has
occasioned much exultation among the Federalists. The
Society walked in procession and amounted to more than
two thousand. Many Gentlemen kept aloof, but it was one
of the most respectable assemblages of people that I have
ever seen. It consisted of substantial Shop keepers and
Mechanicks, of Men of the middling Class, and of a considerable Number of old Revolutionary officers and Soldiers.
Almost all of them possess Influence and can bring to the
poll other votes besides their own. In the Evening a grand
| 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 | 00000353 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 326 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. and be ready to go with him, under Divine guidance and protection, to the promised land, yet great is the number who prefer remaining in slavery and dying in Egypt. If this letter should reach you, be so good as to let me know it, and name some person in London to whose care I may transmit future ones for you. With the best wishes for your health and happiness, and with real esteem and regard, I am, dear sir, Your faithful and obedient servant, John Jay. peter a. jay to jay. New York, 23d February, 1810. Dear Papa : The Washington Society requested me to deliver an oration on their Anniversary, and as you advised me not to be an insignificant Member, I was induced to consent, and accordingly spoke one Yesterday. I have of course been for some time busy in preparing it, and have on that account pressed the furnace business less than I should otherwise have done. The Celebration of yesterday has occasioned much exultation among the Federalists. The Society walked in procession and amounted to more than two thousand. Many Gentlemen kept aloof, but it was one of the most respectable assemblages of people that I have ever seen. It consisted of substantial Shop keepers and Mechanicks, of Men of the middling Class, and of a considerable Number of old Revolutionary officers and Soldiers. Almost all of them possess Influence and can bring to the poll other votes besides their own. In the Evening a grand |
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