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434 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
individual, or topic induces the obliquity. Although I give
Mr. Adams his full share of merit in the affair of the
Compte de Vergennes' maneuvring with the British administration on the subject of our treaty of 1783, yet I have
felt indignant that your name should have been omitted in
the Massachusetts Conventional account of the matter, and
Mr. Adams held out as the principal figure, when you
should have been the prominent and leading portrait in
the group. I am sure Mr. Vaughan will not justify this
statement of the transaction, tho' he is alluded to us confirming it, by one of the speakers in the Massachusetts
Convention. His account of it to me was exactly as you
stated it in your letter to Congress, which I saw and read
at the time of its being the subject of our consideration;
when, as I wrote to you, the unjustifiable vote was taken
as to the unmerited censure of proceeding without the concurrence of the French ministry, in our adjustment with
Great Britain.
In your letter to me, in answer to my relation of what
passed at this place in a conversation with Mr. B. Vaughan,
a year or more ago, in relation to the affair, and when I
told you he confirmed my recollections on the subject, you
only refer to your letter to Congress. I think some additional statement of facts should be left, lest the archives of
the office of state may suffer the catastrophe which destroyed all the records of transactions in the war office.
The truth of history depends on fair and correct relations
of the conduct of individuals to whom public transactions
were committed. The biography of those individuals is one
thing, the national character is another; but both are united
in the inquiry on this subject.
Among the pleasures of memory (which has many pains),
the recollection of old friendships is one of the most delightful. Among these, my remembrances of your personal
regard is one of the most prominent gratifications. When-
| 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 | 00000461 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 434 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. individual, or topic induces the obliquity. Although I give Mr. Adams his full share of merit in the affair of the Compte de Vergennes' maneuvring with the British administration on the subject of our treaty of 1783, yet I have felt indignant that your name should have been omitted in the Massachusetts Conventional account of the matter, and Mr. Adams held out as the principal figure, when you should have been the prominent and leading portrait in the group. I am sure Mr. Vaughan will not justify this statement of the transaction, tho' he is alluded to us confirming it, by one of the speakers in the Massachusetts Convention. His account of it to me was exactly as you stated it in your letter to Congress, which I saw and read at the time of its being the subject of our consideration; when, as I wrote to you, the unjustifiable vote was taken as to the unmerited censure of proceeding without the concurrence of the French ministry, in our adjustment with Great Britain. In your letter to me, in answer to my relation of what passed at this place in a conversation with Mr. B. Vaughan, a year or more ago, in relation to the affair, and when I told you he confirmed my recollections on the subject, you only refer to your letter to Congress. I think some additional statement of facts should be left, lest the archives of the office of state may suffer the catastrophe which destroyed all the records of transactions in the war office. The truth of history depends on fair and correct relations of the conduct of individuals to whom public transactions were committed. The biography of those individuals is one thing, the national character is another; but both are united in the inquiry on this subject. Among the pleasures of memory (which has many pains), the recollection of old friendships is one of the most delightful. Among these, my remembrances of your personal regard is one of the most prominent gratifications. When- |
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