
Original: «I hope the Friends of Federal Government may be as successful in New York, as they have been in South Carolina. We had a tedious but trifling opposition to contend with. We had prejudices to contend with and sacrifices to make. Yet they were worth making for the good old cause. — People become more and more satisfied with the adoption, and if well administered, and administered with moderation they will cherish and bless those who have offered them a Constitution which will secure to them all the Advantages that flow from good government».
Fuente: Jay, John. The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay: 1782-1793. Editor Henry Phelps Johnston. Editorial G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1793 Procedencia del original: Universidad de Harvard. p. 339.
Fuente: Carta a John Jay de 20 de junio de 1788.