[Jany 1799] [Sam.s Chase] [PAID N C] The Honorble James Mc Henry Secretary of War Philadelphia S Balt: 14^th Jany 1799 My dear Sir I sometime past wrote [undecipherable] to you Doctor Warfield of this city as a surgeon [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the Depart of War, [undecipherable] being his [undecipherable] [undecipherable], his Character is fine, I suppose [undecipherable] been [undecipherable] as well as [undecipherable] Major Taylor [undecipherable] [undecipherable] occasionally [undecipherable] [undecipherable] appointment [undecipherable] you were [undecipherable] him in one year [undecipherable]. he was a Major in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Gentleman, a [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] has a good disposition [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] been [undecipherable] to be a Captain. it is [undecipherable] objects to live in this State, & I [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable]. I should think [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] would be able to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] but [undecipherable] bring [undecipherable] before [undecipherable] I was in the New Dep[undecipherable] about [undecipherable] Officers [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I am greatly pleased with both [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Ments [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to a Standing Army, but I am [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to a Standing Army that a respectable military Establishment is absolutely necessary, at this time, & probably for some years hence. the Militia alone in the middle Southern States [undecipherable] ought not to be relied on to [undecipherable] internal Scoundrels in order. — Our [undecipherable] [undecipherable] refused to authorize M[undecipherable] [undecipherable] to give [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for [undecipherable], or to vest him with discretionary Powers — and if not [undecipherable] before [undecipherable], it is to remain for another Year. The [undecipherable] Delegates [undecipherable] House of [undecipherable] Measures — I am [undecipherable] to say, [undecipherable] with Measures — [undecipherable] their [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] their General Act to [undecipherable] act without [undecipherable], I would [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the first [undecipherable] if this [undecipherable] to all [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] if [undecipherable] too much trouble I wish You would ask M[undecipherable] Pickering if [undecipherable], any [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] M[undecipherable] King [undecipherable] Stock, & to send it to M[undecipherable] I [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] by the Hand on the third Day of next Month — I wish You every felicity in this life: and am with great [undecipherable] Your [undecipherable] Samuel Chase