Washington, March 25, 1823.
Dear Ezekiel, — I am
detained here still by the affairs of the Commission, and do not expect to
leave before ten or fifteen days. It is our expectation to go to Dorchester for
the summer, and I intend to move the second day of May. Soon after that I hope
you will come down, as I shall want to see you very much on more accounts than
one.
You have
accomplished a great affair in New Hampshire. 1 know not whether it is a
triumph, but it is at least a change, and for the present it seems for the
better. I have seen the returns, and it is clear enough which way the Federal
votes went.
As to the great
Presidential question, my opinion is, that it was never more uncertain than now
who will succeed. It is time to prepare public opinion in our quarter, for
certain contingencies which may arise.
Who would New
Hampshire be for, in your opinion, if it were certain that Mr. Adams would not
succeed, or who would she prefer next to him? I wish you would write me an
answer to this question, with or without the reasons on which your opinion rests,
so as to reach me here by the tenth or twelfth of April. This can be done, if
you will sit right down to it, on receipt of this. I would thank you also to
express your own preference.
Yours always,
D. Webster.
P. S. You will
probably hear from Portsmouth soon, on another subject.
SOURCE: Fletcher
Webster, Editor, The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster, Volume 1, p. 322-3
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