...to prevent this." Washington wrote to John Jay (SPAKKS'S Life of Washington, vol. ix., p. 187) : " We have probably had too good an opinion of human...men will not adopt and carry into execution measures best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power." " The glare of royalty...

...additional evidence, from a letter to John Jay, during the summer of 1786: — " We have errors to correct. We have probably had too good an opinion of human...intervention of a coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged somewhere a power which will pervade the whole Union in...

...acknowledged the event to be equally beyond his foresight. " We have errors,' said he, " to correct. We have probably had too good an opinion of human...forming our confederation. Experience has taught us thai men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good, without...

...sovereignties, eternally counteracting each other." Again, " We have errors," he said, " to correct. We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our Confederation. ... I do not conceive that we can exist long as a nation without lodging somewhere a power which will...

...into a great and prosperous Nation must be abandoned. "We have probably had," declared Washington, " too good an opinion of human nature in forming our...intervention of a, coercive power. I do 'not conceive we can long exist as a Nation without having lodged somewhere a power which will pervade the whole Union in...

...additional evidence, from a letter to John Jay, during the summer of 1786: — " We have errors to correct. We have probably had too good an opinion of human...for their own good, without the intervention of a coereive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged somewhere a power...

...Adatts, II., p. 129. ' Washington writes, the 8th of August, 1786, to Jay: " We have errors to correct. We have probably had too good an opinion of human...good without the intervention of a coercive power." 'Washington's Writings. IX., p. 187. But this self-complacent illusion had cast roots too deep to be...

...purposes, or we are thirteen independent sovereignties, eternally counteracting each other." . . . . " We have probably had too good an opinion of human...calculated for their own good, without the intervention of coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation, without lodging, somewhere, a power...

...Adams, II., p. 129. * Washington writes, the 8th of August, 1786, to Jay: " We have errors to correct. We have probably had too good an opinion of human...men will not adopt and carry into execution measures thn best caleulated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power." Washington's...

...my own. What the event will be is also beyond the reach of my foresight. We have errors to correct. We have probably had too good an opinion of human...intervention of a coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged somewhere a power that will pervade the whole Union in...