2. Nov. 95. My dear Sir, You see I write without answer — as the old officer, in Browning's Long Story, thickens the battle, and springs the mine, while the table sleeps or yawns. — Since I wrote pains have been taken to set our people to turn out next wednesday — as much pains have been used by Eccleston's opponent, Gen [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] of Carolina, who in his letters covers her Mr. Jeffer. — E. however will outvote him in his own county — & here more votes will be taken than [undecipherable] ever won in any one day — You have all let Stanwick get in again. Surely it was badly schemed to set up Mr. E.T. — I have just seen Phocion and wish he was not so minute — The temper of the people is much wrought up, on great party principles — Small detail not immediately & strikingly pointed seems too circuitous a way to their feelings & present warmth — In this county I think I never knew an election so much of principles — Gen[.] S. is obnox[ious] to about one half the county & is to be sprea[d] — [undecipherable] gone by them in a Sheriffs election, yet the language is our choice is a party question, not a personal matter — this, for a Southern election, is a pleasing feature of the brother's goodness. It would appear as if the French meant to rest their power on neutral right[s] — to shut out all British trade — and I confess I fear that they will try the experiment in U.S. — It is their interest to do it — & if they failed they could but talk of imperious necessity — Galatine I mean is in! — The subject of a postscript to my last about his [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] in confidence, — & the piece discovered was more hastily written, under an intention of being sent to Baltimore — but happened to be too late for the boat. Pray remember me to Mr. Wolcott — I [undecipherable] she writes away — & all those he [undecipherable] His piece hating the open contract [undecipherable] he takes pains & holds up between France and English, and read here will meet relish & do much good. — Your sincerely & affectionately Dear [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Should you fall in upon Smith, S.C. pray remember me to him, & the great Harper in Philad[.] P.s. 20 [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] of a Vice P. — Phocion's ridicule of [undecipherable] philosophy of the secretions & smile of the [undecipherable] of brother [undecipherable] has [undecipherable] — takes [undecipherable] with people here & does good —