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ought the U.S to pursue in the present crisis? To seize upon countries to which we have no color of title or the ground that other nations will to it, savors so strongly of the Copenhagen transaction, that I am utterly averse to it. To wait until they are occupied by a foreign force, not Spanish, and then expel them, with the loss of blood and treasure, when both might have been avoided by a unclear occupancy of them looks a little Quixotic, but this is something of magnimity and unclear of justice in it. Perhaps the crisis is more distant than what we have expected-- possibly it may never arrive, for the last Philadelphia paper states with every appearance of authenticity that Marshall Soult? had raised the siege of Cadiz, and was on his march to join unclear. The Vessel bringing this news sailed from Lisbon on the 18th Nov. I understand Auld Jared is to oppose you next fall. I fear the representation of Baldwin County will be found in the ranks of opposition. You have too many hot headed folks in the precincts of Milledgeville accept my dear sir my best wishes for your political and individual prosperity. Wm H Crawford