[undecipherable] [undecipherable: Viands?] No [undecipherable] Petitioner [undecipherable] to all [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Oct [undecipherable] 1796 2^d day of Election 96. We just hear from Talbot that Hindman gives a bond of bright 3 to 1 — fair speed the worthy member of the red nose — Jefferson will be pushed in this State on the ties particularly — but M^r [undecipherable] will undoubtedly have greatly the majority — but I ought not to get more than two on his side to be elected — No Price is yet mentioned here — I think I have certainly gone on to Matthew [undecipherable] comesne — a bitter man an old horse — with & [undecipherable] things are [undecipherable] parties — I declares [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] ruins against [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] Resigned & [undecipherable] a good man Succeeds him. to T. writes me from the City. Of the policy which you are now organizing the civilization of the Savages great doubts may be entertained without an affront to the [undecipherable] who attempts to merit glory — from what is known of the [undecipherable] of nations from infancy to manhood may it [undecipherable] to be continued as a general proposition that the means which have drawn out the Social character have been such as were congenial to the state in w[hi]ch their nation was & in whom they were allied — Even mo[re] the Barbarian nations was martial — They [undecipherable] that of their Savage State we know nothing — are testimonies of their Barbarous or Savage State — but from the date which they furnish Sometimes things may be learned of that scheme w[hi]ch [undecipherable] Away. Probably draw them from the Savage to the barbarous. One engine indeed of incalculably [undecipherable] means is now [undecipherable] by the civilizing hand that was not known in the early ages, the art of [print?] yet this affords not a ready device of those habits which constitute Society as it stands even there. An individual may receive learning by it — but it would teach the Indian Scholar things applicable to [undecipherable] Society, not to his own — were it [undecipherable] to direct a plan or Projects for them in stand amenable to the Feader earlier Ideas, the most congenial to their present State, it appears [undecipherable] that it would not [undecipherable] than — the doctrine of nothing to [undecipherable] their full of civilization which you would State [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] must put out a [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] to free original habits & manners as the [undecipherable] would be [undecipherable] depopulated — [undecipherable] there an [undecipherable] of a [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] principles must [undecipherable] become — and [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] values [undecipherable] — because I can find nothing like [undecipherable] [undecipherable] them. I fear that the only way to civilize [undecipherable] is to first [undecipherable] them — all nations are to [undecipherable] It is hurtful — but I fear true — Picker & the following [undecipherable] for some time seem inclined to consider the [undecipherable] nation [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of every civil instructions they might choose to give — They found this not the case — That a half Savage nation have habits as indelicate as a refined nation & [undecipherable] the habits of such a nation are more to — in that [undecipherable] to remain such a nation it was necessary not to [undecipherable] it as a blank [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with any thing required to be written, but to ascertain the [undecipherable] and taken into [undecipherable] progress & [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] preserved in that was the main relative disposition — I have always imagined it a useless attempt [undecipherable] [undecipherable] have been to attempt to make the Indians like a white nation — not [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] [underline: [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]] I claim is if an attempt is made, to make them as much as horrible like the Barbarians of Germany — [undecipherable] still [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] reasons [undecipherable] [undecipherable] believe they are at [undecipherable] — in mistake, in [undecipherable] the plan have been [undecipherable] must be that the whole [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] concealed [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — have I [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] education them in [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] nothing than [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]