John Jay Papers

Message to the New York State Senate, 13 August 1798

Message to the New York State Senate

[Albany, 13 August 1798]

GENTLEMEN,

I receive this address with great satisfaction—1 it expresses sentiments and evinces knowledge which cannot be too generally entertained and diffused. While the people of the United States have just and clear views of their true interests, it will not be possible to force or seduce them to pass under a foreign yoke; especially when, as at present, both their civil and military affairs are directed by men of tried virtue and patriotism, and who by great and eminent services have justly merited the confidence they enjoy.

JOHN JAY.

PtD, Albany Gazette and Albany Centinel, 17 Aug.; New-York Gazette and Daily Advertiser (New York), 21 Aug.; Greenleaf’s New York Journal, and Spectator (New York), 22 Aug.; Gazette of the United States (Philadelphia) and Philadelphia Gazette, 22 Aug.; Claypoole’s American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 23 Aug.; Federal Gazette (Baltimore), 23 Aug.; Telegraphe and Daily Advertiser (Baltimore), 24 Aug.; Massachusetts Mercury (Boston), 24 Aug.; Northern Centinel (Salem, N.Y.), 27 Aug.; Thomas’s Massachusetts Spy (Worcester), 29 Aug.; Universal Gazette (Philadelphia), 30 Aug.; and Otsego Herald (Cooperstown), 30 Aug. 1798. N.Y. Senate Journal, 22nd sess. (August 1798) description begins [New York State], Journal of the Senate 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. 34213) description ends , 11.

1. See New York State Senate to JJ, 13 Aug. 1798, above.

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    “Message to the New York State Senate, 13 August 1798,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jay/01-06-02-0343. [Original source: The Selected Papers of John Jay, vol. 6, 1794–1798, ed. Elizabeth M. Nuxoll. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020, p. 684.]