{ 2 P. day of Election 96. We just hear from Talbot that Hindman goes a head of Wright 3 to 1. — fair speed the worthy member of the red rose — Jefferson will be pushed in this state on the lis. particularly — but M.A. will undoubtedly have greatly the majority — but I [undecipherable] not get more than two or he will be elected — No Rice is yet mentioned here. Christie I hear certainly goes on to Mc[undecipherable] connection — a bitter member all hollow — Smith & [undecipherable] things are not bad, and — Sc. declin[undecipherable] — [undecipherable] Burns against Ring[undecipherable] — [undecipherable] Resigned & M.[undecipherable] a good man [undecipherable] him. As T. writes me from the City. Of the policy which you are now organising 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 not be contened as a general proposition that the means which have drawn out the Social character have been such as were congenial to the [undecipherable] nation was to whom they were allied — Even [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] nations was martial — [undecipherable] far that of their [undecipherable] state we know nothing — [undecipherable] are testimonies of their Barbarism on a second State[,] but from the data which their [undecipherable] [undecipherable] things may be learned & that scheme not [underline: enlight]ened ways probably draw them from the Savage to the barbarous. One engine indeed of incalculable [undecipherable] is now [undecipherable] by the civilizing hand that was not known in the early ages, the art of [undecipherable] yet this affords not a ready source of those habits which constitute Society as it stands any where. An individual may require learning by it — but it would teach the Indian Scholar things applicable to [undecipherable] Society not to his own — were it possible to desert a [underline: plan of Property] for them in and [undecipherable] to the Feudal earlier Ideas, the most [undecipherable] to their present State, it appears [undecipherable] that it was not [undecipherable] — in [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] their felt of civilization which you would [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] not a [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] original habits & manners & the [undecipherable] would be ineradicably [undecipherable] — even then an organ [undecipherable] of a [undecipherable] a plan of course & [undecipherable] principles must [undecipherable] be formed — or [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — because I can find nothing like it [undecipherable] — I fear that the only way to civilize Savages is to first [undecipherable] them — all nations [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] 2 It is dreadful — but I fear true — Peter & the following years for some time seemed inclined to consider the [undecipherable] nations [undecipherable] [undecipherable] be of any [undecipherable] instructions they might chuse to give — They found this not the case — that a half savage nation has habits as inveterate as a refined nation — perhaps the habits of such a nation are more so — for that to advance such a nation it was necessary not to consider it as a blank paper [strikethrough: before] writing any thing [undecipherable] is written, but to ascertain the last [undecipherable] it and taken into its progress & only [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] forward in what was the most natural atti-tude — I have always imagined it a useless attempt for [undecipherable] time to have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] attempt to make the Germans like a civilize nation — new [undecipherable] [undecipherable] if not by a trade [underline: [undecipherable]] [undecipherable] plan is [undecipherable] an attempt [undecipherable] to make them as [undecipherable] at [undecipherable] like the [undecipherable] of Germany — [undecipherable] and still increasing [undecipherable] large [undecipherable] This [undecipherable] at least believe the art of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] mistake in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] was [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] two [undecipherable] conceald [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — have & [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] [undecipherable] improvement [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] no Those that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] because before — The difficulty is in drawing a nation from its habits, be attracted then to higher habits [undecipherable] to them. 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