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proper for you to pursue. Your experience, and soundness of judgment will enable you, without relying upon the opinions of others, to decide correctly upon the embarrassments by which you are surrounded. I fear however from letters recd. from different parts of the State, by the number of Congress that the minds of many of your friends have been prepossessed against you; and that the most satisfactory explanations will be unclear to remove those Prepossessions. Perhaps whilst defending yourself, the war may be successfully carried into the enemy's camp. Generally speaking, the boldest policy is the safest. I am afraid that Colo. Troup will not return to the Senate next fall. He has been confined a great part of the Winter. He left