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Washington 6th Novm. 1820 Dear Genl. Your letter of the 8th inst reached me this morning. I am fearful that your anticipations respecting Mr Cobbs' election have not been realized. I have not recd. any information except from the news-papers, which are not very favorable. I had expected to have seen the governor's proclamation announcing the members elect. The whole secret of the high vote recd. by all the candidates having any claims of success, is I Presume that the mongrel party in the state sacrificed their prejudices to their greater hatred of Mr Cobb, and even neglected their own candidates for the purpose of more certainly excluding him; and I fear they have succeeded, by the aid of a bad day which prevented at least half the electors from exercising their rights of suffrage. When I arrived here, I was informed by the