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Washington, March 17th 1810

My dear Sir I offer you my sincere congratulations on your elevation to the chief Magistracy but especially on the prospect which is every day opening before you of uniting more various & stronger interests in your support than several of your immediate predecessors? - The people of Georgia if I understand them rightly will only require the firmness? & moderation & dignity with which you set out to to yield that support as liberally & as heartily as ever they accorded it to our old & excellent friend Jackson - our state must begin to have soundness and stability & permanency of character - the waywardness of her councils the contradictions the inconsistencies, the infidelity to engagements the looseness of legislation & the relaxation of the executive arm of which we have have given so many & such public evidences since the year 95 have brought us into a discredit with the world of which you can entertain