Aug. 28, 1829 My dear Sir,

... I can now say with the utmost confidence that the whole is a paltry intrigue got up by a combination of small bankrupts & smaller Demagogues — that if the choice were to be made again, we ought to choose Mr. Mason^;— and that to have him out or not to support him fully would be to suffer ourselves to be tramped down by the merest rabble. ...