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Dear Brother Eliab. What do you mean by not writing to me. Not one word among the letters in my trunk. I think I have written enough lectures to you on that score already. One of you shirts it seems you have lost. "What you goin to do about it?" I hardly ? you can get it again very soon. Perhaps you had better let me wear it out for you & you get others. Only it is too small for me. Brother Charles & the rest of you all, what are your politics? or what are they likely to be in the Presidential canvass of '48?

In old Massachusetts the old Party lines are fairly and fully gone. The frame or shadow only is held up by the political especially the Boston papers, the "Cotton" interest as some call it. The Democrats in their convention nominated you know bushing & bushman one now a Whig the other lately, and that party go full for Taylor as president. and so do the Boston Whigs perhaps. But the rest of the Whig party and the better part of the Democratic perhaps, go against the War & Taylor in toto. headed by the "Boston Whig" (a first rate paper edited by Sumner, Palfrey, Adams, Phillips &c. Boston Courier, & country papers. The favorite Candidate of this party would have probably been Silas Wright of N.Y. of Wilmot Proviso memory, if he had lived. Northern Whigs would have united upon Wright, a former Democrat. Southern Democratic Slavery men upon Taylor & Cushing There is, there can be but one question before the country. the great all important (War Slavery) question. & people are getting to know it. Vide D. Webster's speech