Biddle TO Asbury Dickins esq.

Phil Dec. 20, 1831. My dear Sir,

. . . Mr' McLanes report is all that his friends could wish — enlarged liberal, wise, & statesmanlike. It is much fitter for a President's message than the President's message itself & I wish with all my heart that the writer of it was President. The style of the paragraph in that message about the Bank, with the commentary of the Globe, the Richmond Enquirer, & the Standard, I confess shake my confidence much. It is not in such an ambiguous tone that a President should speak or make his dependants speak.