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You have undoubtedly read Daniel Webster on True Eloquence, if you have not the Roman Father of oratory. Principles of U.S. Constitution there found. Our puritan Forefathers; the Pilgrims of New England - Oliver & the Round Heads of the English Revolution, found them - found them in the Bible. They were not revealed by Bentham, or Voltaire, nor by Lycurgus or Cato even - but by Christ Jesus. To the Bible Mankind owe Liberty, as well as "Life'. You give me too much credit on "Matrimony"! There is no noncommittalism about it. Simply this - it is a Subject to which I have not turned my attention. I write nothing because I thought nothing. Perhaps I better think thereon immediately - and come to this conclusion - I believe a young man should - I want to - get married as soon as possible - It is exactly what I need - I lack ambition - need motives spur to exertion - this living for ones'self alone - I too am unfortunately so constituted as to consider myself as a person of little consequence; hardly worth doing much for, to put forth energies for. perhaps now I could do considerable. It is unfortunate; with a heart not lacking in sympathy; somewhat susceptible to the influence of other mind: frequently some what influenced by certain minds: I never yet happened to meet that mind exactly the right one to absorb & carry away my own. If I had I might have been a different, a superior man. I can realize it to be so. To be sure, I never thought much about the subject; too careless on that as on others. if I do think - what shall I do? How effect any thing? What can a young man do? Really I begin to fear, now I think of it, that I am one of those unfortunate beings predestined by unpropitious circumstance to be an - Old Bach. You used to argue Early Marriages. You seem to be quitting the ground as untenable. Now I think of it - I begin to be strongly to that opinion. I agree with Franklin, & Old Lack!