9. Sep. 905 [Copy 1st page] 12 My dear Sir, I find a comfort in writing to you & as I want comfort & [undecipherable] that my letter only draws a line from you & therefore am not — [undecipherable: probable reading burdensome] to indulge — I want comfort because I am just getting over a pretty severe illness in which my doctor treated me in the true spirit of bleeding & purging with calomel — for an infla- [undecipherable] bilious fever which has raged here W:m has been down with it & is recovering — Rush is the reigning [undecipherable] here — [whose] laws like [1 1 90] draco's are written in blood — Success however attends these laws & like a good subject I sub- mitted & am the better for it — To a minister working upon great materials this country news must be a great relaxation Let it not however tinge your Talk to the Cherokees who would not understand the anxiety of such a depleting plan — How cleverly that Talk will come out from some future com[undecipherable] [undecipherable] — it to the vulgar appear an able [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of M[r] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] Of the [undecipherable] — this [undecipherable] to learn that the President will not longer serve — at least till the war is over. The [underline: undecipherable] of the creation of the [undecipherable: probable reading third] party seems to me very important — This will come from you & W:H: & Col. P. for a party dis[undecipherable] not without consent unless a rallying point is understood among them — I know the delicacy of such a proceeding but a hint might I should suppose be Confidentially dropt to fit persons. However you will be the best judge — I have mentioned M: A: as the man. our Electors from this State, at least for three counties will be good men. Jones. Eccleston & Bloomsley — I am affectionately & truly y[our] &c &c [undecipherable] H. K. M: