judged from a tact of the southern pulse.  I suspect that of the north was different, and decided your conduct:  and perhaps it has been as well.  If the revolution of sentiment has been later, it has perhaps been not less sure.  At length it has arrived.  What with the natural current of opinion which has been setting over to us for eighteen months, and the immense impetus which was given it from the 11th to the 17th of February, we may now say that the United States, from New York southwardly, are as unanimous in the principles of ’76, as they were in ’76.  The only difference is, that the leaders who remain behind are more numerous and colder than the apostles of toryism in ’76.  The reason is, that we are now justly more tolerant than we could safely have been then, circumstanced as we were.  Your part of the Union, though as absolutely republican as ours, had drunk deeper of the delusion, and is therefore slower in recovering from it.  The aegis of government, and the temples of religion and of justice, have all been prostituted there to toll us back to the times when we burnt witches.  But your people will rise again.  They will awake like Samson from his sleep, and carry away the gates and the posts of the city.  You, my friend, are destined to rally them again under their former banners, and when called to the post, exercise it with firmness and with inflexible adherence to your own principles.  The people will support you, notwithstanding the howlings of the ravenous crew from whose jaws they are escaping.  It will be a great blessing to our country if we can once more restore harmony and social love among its citizens.  I confess, as to myself, it is almost the first object of my heart, and one to which I would sacrifice every thing but principle.  With the people I have hopes of effecting it.  But their Coryphaei are incurables.  I expect little from them.

I was not deluded by the eulogiums of the public papers in the first moments of change.  If they could have continued to get all the loaves and fishes, that is, if I would have gone over to them, they would continue to eulogize.  But I well knew that the moment that such removals should take place, as the justice of the preceding administration ought to have executed, their hue and cry would be set up, and they would take their old stand.  I shall disregard that also.  Mr. Adams’s last appointments, when he knew he was naming counsellors and aids for me and not for himself, I set aside as far as depends on me.  Officers who have been guilty of gross abuses of office, such as marshals packing juries, &c, I shall now remove, as my predecessor ought in justice to have done.  The instances will be few, and governed by strict rule, and not party passion.  The right of opinion shall suffer no invasion from me.  Those who have acted well, have nothing to fear, however they may have differed from me in opinion:  those who have done ill, however, have nothing to hope; nor shall I fail to do justice lest it should