og-rolling, &c.), by declaring that the federal proportion
of each State of the monies so employed, shall be in works within
the State, or elsewhere with its consent, and with a due _salvo_ of
jurisdiction. This is the course which I think safest and best as yet.
You ask my opinion of the propriety of giving publicity to what is
stated in your letter, as having passed between Mr. John Q. Adams and
yourself. Of this no one can judge but yourself. It is one of those
questions which belong to the forum of feeling. This alone can decide
on the degree of confidence implied in the disclosure; whether under no
circumstances it was to be communicated to others. It does not seem to
be of that character, or at all to wear that aspect. They are historical
facts, which belong to the present, as well as future times. I
doubt whether a single fact, known to the world, will carry as clear
conviction to it, of the correctness of our knowledge of the treasonable
views of the federal party of that day, as that disclosed by this, the
most nefarious and daring attempt to dissever the Union, of which the
Hartford Convention was a subsequent chapter: and both of these having
failed, consolidation becomes the first chapter of the next book of
their history. But this opens with a vast accession of strength from
their younger recruits, who, having nothing in them of the feelings or
principles of '76, now look to a single and splendid government of an
aristocracy, founded on banking institutions, and monied incorporations
under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures,
commerce, and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman
and beggared yeomanry. This will be to them a next best blessing to the
monarchy of their first aim, and perhaps the surest stepping-stone to
it.

I learn with great satisfaction that your school is thriving well, and
that you have at its head a truly classical scholar. He is one of three
or four whom I can hear of in the State. We were obliged the last
year to receive shameful Latinists into the classical school of the
University; such as we will certainly refuse as soon as we can get from
better schools a sufficiency of those properly instructed to form a
class. We must get rid of this Connecticut Latin, of this barbarous
confusion of long and short syllables, which renders doubtful whether we
are listening to a reader of Cherokee, Shawnee, Iroquois, or what. Our
University has been mos