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352 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
Revolution, need not be particularized. Our records
and histories and memoirs render it unnecessary. It
is sufficient to say, and it can be said with truth, that
his administration raised the nation out of confusion
into order, out of degradation and distress into reputation and prosperity. It found us withering—it left
us flourishing.
Is it to be believed that, after having thus led the
nation out of a bewildered state, and guided them
for many years from one degree of prosperity to
another, he was not qualified, on retiring, to advise
them how to proceed and go on ? And what but this
is the object and the burden of his valedictory
address ? He was persuaded that, as the national
welfare had been recovered and established, so it
could only be preserved and prolonged by a continued
and steady adherence to those principles of sound
policy and impartial justice which had invariably
directed his administration. Although the knowledge
of them had been spread and scattered among the
people, here a little and there a little, yet, being
desirous to mark even the last day of his public life by
some act of public utility, he addressed and presented
them to his fellow-citizens, in points of light so clear
and strong, as to make deep impression on the public
mind. These last parental admonitions of this father
of his country were gratefully received and universally admired. But the experience of ages informs us
that it is less difficult to give good advice, than to
prevail on men to follow it.
Such and so obvious is the force of the preceding
| 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 | 00000379 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 352 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. Revolution, need not be particularized. Our records and histories and memoirs render it unnecessary. It is sufficient to say, and it can be said with truth, that his administration raised the nation out of confusion into order, out of degradation and distress into reputation and prosperity. It found us withering—it left us flourishing. Is it to be believed that, after having thus led the nation out of a bewildered state, and guided them for many years from one degree of prosperity to another, he was not qualified, on retiring, to advise them how to proceed and go on ? And what but this is the object and the burden of his valedictory address ? He was persuaded that, as the national welfare had been recovered and established, so it could only be preserved and prolonged by a continued and steady adherence to those principles of sound policy and impartial justice which had invariably directed his administration. Although the knowledge of them had been spread and scattered among the people, here a little and there a little, yet, being desirous to mark even the last day of his public life by some act of public utility, he addressed and presented them to his fellow-citizens, in points of light so clear and strong, as to make deep impression on the public mind. These last parental admonitions of this father of his country were gratefully received and universally admired. But the experience of ages informs us that it is less difficult to give good advice, than to prevail on men to follow it. Such and so obvious is the force of the preceding |
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