I expected these numbers would have concluded my answer to Hampden¹ but I must write two others which will follow in a few days. If the publication has not commended I would rather wish the signature to be changed to “A Constitutionalist.”

A friend of the Constitution is so much like a friend of the Union that it may lead to some suspicion of identity. It is however of no great consequence. I hope the publication has commenced unless the editor should be unwilling to devote so much of his paper to this discussion. The letters of Amphyction & of Hampden have made no great impression in Richmond, but they were designed for the country & have had considerable influence there. I wish the refutation to be in the hand of some respectable members of the legislature and may prevent some act of the assembly (equally) silly & wicked. If the publication be made, I should like to have two or three sets of the papers to be used if necessary.

I will settle with the printer.