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Message to the New York State Assembly, 14 August 1798

Message to the New York State Assembly

[Albany, 14 August 1798]

GENTLEMEN,

It gives me pleasure to find that you concur with me in opinion, as to the situation of our public affairs, and the expediency of convening the Legislature at this alarming crisis.1 The utility of this measure will depend on the result of your deliberations; which will I am persuaded be such, as clearly to evince that the fear of France has not fallen upon us, but on the contrary, that we have not only sensibility to feel, but also resolution to resent, the indignities offered to our nation and government, and repel with the spirit becoming a brave and free people, every attack on our national honor and Independence.

JOHN JAY

PtD, Albany Gazette and Albany Centinel, 17 Aug.; Daily Advertiser (New York) and Argus, Greeenleaf’s New Daily Advertiser, 21 Aug.; Greenleaf’s New York Journal and Spectator (New York), 22 Aug.; Federal Gazette (Baltimore), 22 Aug.; Philadelphia Gazette, 22 Aug.; Gazette of the United States (Philadelphia), 23 Aug.; Massachusetts Mercury (Boston), 24 Aug.; Telegraphe and Daily Advertiser (Baltimore), 24 Aug.; Universal Gazette (Philadelphia), 30 Aug.; and Otsego Herald (Cooperstown), 30 Aug. 1798. N.Y. Assembly Journal, 22nd sess. (August 1798) description begins [New York State], Journal of the Assembly of the state of New-York; at their twenty-second session, began and held at the city of Albany, the ninth day of August, 1798 (Albany, [1798]; Early Am. Imprints, series 1, no. 34212) description ends , 19.

1. See New York State Assembly to JJ, 14 Aug. 1798, above.

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    “Message to the New York State Assembly, 14 August 1798,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jay/01-06-02-0345. [Original source: The Selected Papers of John Jay, vol. 6, 1794–1798, ed. Elizabeth M. Nuxoll. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020, p. 686.]