Ilagiinoion. .Jan. 1lM. 1916.
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MEssRs, lsAAc 1GGL & SONS:

 GeAtemen-l am indebted to you, or to some friend, in New Hampshire, for your paper of the Both ut., which lad the pleas Gre To receive this morning. thank you, not only for your complimentary notice of my remarks, upon Gen. Cass' resolutions. also, for your defence of those remarks,- against the strictures of the Manchester American-a paper never saw--and of the existence of which, until Ireceived your pa per this morning, 1 was wholly ignorant Some of the remarks, which that good edi- tor has noticed, and those appatentIy the most offensive, never uttered l said noth- ing about ''Paine's Age of Reason''-a book never read.

 Niih no very great pretentions to christi an'iy> and most certainly having no religion to spare, and scarcely enough to boast of yet, hope am ever incapable of sneerng l &t religion, orat any thing connected with it. Where am personally known, however in- credulous my assaant may be, either from his knowledge ot me, or of the countrv,- which he accuses as being rather lIeathensh, from which ] came, beg to assure him, that any defence from me against such charge would be entirely unnecessary.

 My remarks upon Gen. Cass' resolutions were meyer corrected In the skeleton sketch of that debate, words are attributed to me that never uttered; and many things, which l did say, are omitted. This omission is noticed by the Reporter, for the Union, and the cause of that omission, he assigns, in the body Of the publication of my remarks. did speak, of what does not appear in the debate-of arjiiratioa. l did say that there was time when would have submitted the Oregon question to arbitration; that there was time, when l would have submitted the decision of this question to the King of the French, or To the Emperor of Russia, or to any other independent power in Europe, if such power coud befound. Iconsider- ed that refusal on our part, to submit our controversies 10 arbitration. would he an ae- knowiejgemcnt that we either distrusted our tile 10 Oregon, or else that an honest man could not be found on throne in Europa.- Never doubiiag our title, and believing, al that time, that Ii could be safely entrusted to he decision of the King cf he French, or 10 Emperor of Russia, had been lavorably in- elined to arbitration.

 I Rad recently seen too much intimacy, too much unity of purpose and action, too much hhlmg and eootRg between France and En- gland, for me any longer to assent to any such preference. |; was evident to all the world, that France, ia regard to England,- was To longer what she had been-she was no longer ihe pre-emineAt Power 10 check Great Britain m her ambitious strides to uni. versal dominion. France was TO longer the rival, but had voluntary become the seconda- Y, subordinate, acquiescing ally of that great snd increasing power. In word, she had ceased to he independent of Great Bri,ain.-I When l refectednpoa this unexsmpled spec lacle, thought could see tha! that aged monarch, now 76 years of age, thought more os the House of Bourbon, more for the well iare of his successor, now an infant in the arms of his nurse, than he did to the perma- nent interests of his kingdom For these reasons, feel unwilling, at this time, for