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JAY TO JUDGE PETERS. 351
required no common degree of policy or virtue; and,
with universal admiration and plaudits, descended
joyfully and serenely into the shades of retirement.
They who ascribe all this to the guidance and protection of Providence, do well; but let them recollect,
that Providence seldom interposes in human affairs
but through the agency of human means.
When, at a subsequent and alarming period, the
nation found that their affairs had gone into confusion, and that clouds, portending danger and
distress, were rising over them from every quarter,
they instituted under his auspices a more efficient
government, and unanimously committed the administration of it to him. Would they have done this
without the highest confidence in his political talents
and wisdom ? Certainly not. No novice in navigation was ever unanimously called upon to take the
helm or command of a ship on the point of running
among the breakers. This universal confidence
would have proved a universal mistake, had it not
been justified by the event. The unanimous opinion
entertained and declared by a whole people in favour
of any fellow-citizen is rarely erroneous,—especially
in times of alarm and calamity.
To delineate the course and enumerate the
measures which he took to arrive at success, would
be to write a volume. The firmness and policy with
which he overcame the obstacles placed in his way by
the derangement of national affairs, by the devices
of domestic demagogues and of foreign agents, as
well as by the deleterious influences of the French
| 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 | 00000378 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | JAY TO JUDGE PETERS. 351 required no common degree of policy or virtue; and, with universal admiration and plaudits, descended joyfully and serenely into the shades of retirement. They who ascribe all this to the guidance and protection of Providence, do well; but let them recollect, that Providence seldom interposes in human affairs but through the agency of human means. When, at a subsequent and alarming period, the nation found that their affairs had gone into confusion, and that clouds, portending danger and distress, were rising over them from every quarter, they instituted under his auspices a more efficient government, and unanimously committed the administration of it to him. Would they have done this without the highest confidence in his political talents and wisdom ? Certainly not. No novice in navigation was ever unanimously called upon to take the helm or command of a ship on the point of running among the breakers. This universal confidence would have proved a universal mistake, had it not been justified by the event. The unanimous opinion entertained and declared by a whole people in favour of any fellow-citizen is rarely erroneous,—especially in times of alarm and calamity. To delineate the course and enumerate the measures which he took to arrive at success, would be to write a volume. The firmness and policy with which he overcame the obstacles placed in his way by the derangement of national affairs, by the devices of domestic demagogues and of foreign agents, as well as by the deleterious influences of the French |
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