“Many thanks, my dear Sir, for your obliging letter. I
think better of myself because you think well of me. If, in the imbecility of
old-age, I forgot your name for a moment, the history of America will hereafter
be more tenacious in its recollections—tenacious, because you are using your
eloquent wisdom to restrain the high spirit of your countrymen within the
limits of justice, and are securing to two kindred nations, who
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