Hon. SECRETARY OF STATE.
P. S. Daniel Clark, Esq., of New Orleans, has lately spent a
number of days with me in my camp; from him I have received
much valuable information, which it will be unnecessary for me
to detail, as he will give it to you himself in Philadelphia
the ensuing winter. He intends to visit that city immediately
after our interview in New Orleans.
There is not a gentleman of literature or science, and scarcely
one of respectability in this country, with whom I have not
been upon the most intimate footing ever since I came into it;
and every attack that has been made upon me has arisen either
from envy or misconception, to which I should never have paid
any attention had the principles of opposition not entered our
camp, and begun to embarrass our business.