Title
[Document, 1789 January 23]
Library Location
Name
Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author)
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 (Addressee)
Format
correspondence
Digital Project
Papers of John Jay
Date
January 23, 1789
Language
English
Physical Description
1 page
Subjects
United States--History--1783-1865; Jay, John, 1745-1829
Summary
Extract: Public affairs should be committed to men "of abilities and liberality". As education wider, so will more citizens have these qualifications. "Neither wisdom nor liberty can have permanent abodes with civilized ignorance; for the external alliance which subsists between the wicked and the weak, will ever tend to introduce Despotism and Licentiousness in perpetual rotation..."
Identifier
columbia.jay.02750