Thanks him for a copy of John Marshall's history of the English colonies of North America which Joseph Story delivered a few weeks earlier; quotes Lord Kames (?) from his The Gentleman Farmer; "I disregard the present rebellion of our Americans; for they will soon be reduced to obedience;" discusses present westward movement of the American population and predicts a new western confederacy of the movement of the national capital westward in the next generation; comments upon John Marshall's statements on slavery, mentioning Colonel Edward Carrington's and Mr. Thomas Jefferson's views on miscegenation and the Colonization Society's efforts; discusses Georgia's Governor George M. Troup's detested views on the slaves and Creek Indians, which seem to be held by most Georgians, who would defy the authority of the Union if they dared; that authority rests on "the purity, the intellegence and the firmness" of the Supreme Court; hopes John Marshall long remains at the head.