Baltimore 1 Dec. 1800 My dear Mr. Hamilton: &c. What is past and cannot be amended between friends had better be forgotten. Let it be so if you please, withal I am content. I have since your last reflected upon the policy & morality of your replying to the answers by [undecipherable] letter animadversions on the [President's] character & conduct, and incline to believe that it would be wiser to suspend for the present any further publications on the subject, until all the answers appear, a judgment can be formed whether a reply to all or any of them is expedient? Until Mr. [undecipherable] [displaying] more himself folly on the [contempts] of [young] [letter?] — the answers [of] [undecipherable] [must] be defective? [Besides] [undecipherable] [opinion] that there is not the least chance at the present moment of [your] making a new or more forcible impression on the public mind — [Besides] that object is to be obtained — It cannot [ensure] his election. and may work no good to yourself. On the [whole] in the public mind. I should advise a suspension. Wolcot is also of the same opinion. [I would?] make you [find?] [undecipherable] [will?] find out the [result?] of [undecipherable] if I can comply with your request. [undecipherable — line struck through] [undecipherable] [election?] two Our electors are 5 & 5 and it is not improbable but influence [will?] be [exerted?] to have one vote at [Burr's?] [least] abstracted from [Mr.] Pinckney Yours, always J McH [endorsed: 1 Dec. 1800 / To Alexr. Hamilton] Alexr. Hamilton