The public services of Gouverneur Morris to 1787 . The following extracts from his epeeches and letters ex-press his sentiments as to class or sectinnal interest at threedifferent times in his life. In 1783 he v/rtbte to Jay -The sov-ereign acts weakly, a,^ well as wickedly, if he cramps one part of thocommunity that he may drain m.^^re easily the blood and juices fromanother parffl). In the Federal Convention itself he said: Icome here as a Representative of America; I flatter myself that Icome here in some degree as a Representative of the whole humanrace. ----- I wish you gentleipen to exte
The public services of Gouverneur Morris to 1787 . The following extracts from his epeeches and letters ex-press his sentiments as to class or sectinnal interest at threedifferent times in his life. In 1783 he v/rtbte to Jay -The sov-ereign acts weakly, a,^ well as wickedly, if he cramps one part of thocommunity that he may drain m.^^re easily the blood and juices fromanother parffl). In the Federal Convention itself he said: Icome here as a Representative of America; I flatter myself that Icome here in some degree as a Representative of the whole humanrace. ----- I wish you gentleipen to extend ypur views beyondthe prenent moment of time, and beyond the narrow limits of placefrom which you derive your political origin. If I believed somethings I havo heard, I voulrl suppose that we are assembled to truckand bargain for our particular states. I can not descend to thinkthat any gentleman is really actuated by those motives (2). fl) Jay, Correspondencn( Johnston ed.|. III, 86. ;(2) ITarrand, Records of the federal Convention, I, 529. \. 42 Finally, he wrote in a lettnr just berore he died : But gentlemen,let us forget party and think of our country. ----- jf ourcountry be delivered, what does it signify whether tnose who oper-ate her salvation wear a federal or a democratic oloak. It has beenthe unvarying principle of my life, that the interest of our oountrymust he preferred to every other interest (l). A man who profess-ed to order his life by the above principles coTild not be influencedunduly by any sectional or class interests. I^o doubt the interestshe represented affected subconsciously his course of action, but notenough to make him stray far from the -oath leading to the best pos-sible gotiernment. Morris played a very prominent part in the was intensely interested in the science of government, and labor-ed earnestly for the welfare of the nation; therefore he interestedhimself in every question that came before the Convention, no mat-ter how tr
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