Dear Sir: I was not a little gratified at the reception of your favor of the 20th ult. It is true, I am free from the “unrighteous persecution” got up by , and carried on by that superlative trio of wickedness, abomination, and national disgrace, , , and . Sooner or later, however, corruption and wickedness get their reward.

Our charters remain as they were, but that mobocratic influence of , which stained her broad prairies, with innocent blood, crept into , and became visible in the house of Representatives of our Legislature; but let corrupt men do what they may, wisdom will be justified of her children.

You have my grateful acknowledgements for your very kind interposition, in my behalf when “Executive influence” was exerted to gratify and glut private malignance. It appears from your letter, that paid no attention to your friendly admonition. I am not suprised at this, any more than the apostles were at the conduct of Nero of Rome. But the smothered heat of a volcanoe will generally burst forth, and give sufficient time to escape its ‘dreadful lava’; and so, thank God, I am liberated [p. [1]]