SUMMERyILLE. May 2I. lS1I
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 Gentlemen: A hurried visit to New Orleans. has prevented me from answering earlier your note of the 18th inst. thank you sincerely for the cordial well come to Alabama il contains s-for the fattering esti nation in which you hold my public services, and the regard you express for my character as citizen and

 

 regret that l cannot, without the appearance of ingrattude to my fellow citizens of Georgia, whose invitations have heretofore declined accept the pub lie dinner you offer in the of the Republicans of the city and county of Mobile. When change my habits in ts regard, it is proper should begin with those to whom owe debt of gratitude, a life de- voted their service would be sufficient to cancel Nor can accede to your request to make now pulp lie address Son the startling which the par ty in power essaymg to fix upon the country" I am not ini,rned what measures the party in power will venture to propose. Their promises to the Leo. pie no one can have forgotten; how they are to be performed IS yet subject of conjecture. The de- sired change in the administration has been made aG.l we slali be instructed in few weeks by what magical incantations expectations to become real,- ties. If greater economy is introduced in the expen- iiture of the different branches of the government if

 

 if the credit of the States is revived and individual endorsements relieved; if the value of all our prop erty is enhance if the elective franchise is protec- ted from the approaches of fraud and alsehood, cor ruption and violence if "proscription is proscrbed; il the offices of tee general government are not com didered by in those power spells be distributed among their prohigate partisans, be they unscrupu- lons orators, tnerant ballad singes yenal editors if the public faith is nvioably kept, and the charac- ter of the government sustained at home and abroad il all the sources of wealth and power, individual and national are fully developed, the Republicans of the city and county of Mobile will with me- cordially re- Joice at the change which has taken place in the councs of the nation, although that change has been wrought against wishes, our efforts and our con- sictions That such happy consequences will result after the foul play which has been resored to to en success, do not believe, especially after indica lions so oninous those which have been already given of the of policy likely to be pursued. Stil, however, It is but just hear, from the &C., knowedged organs of the victorious party, what is definitely proposed, before expressing opinion up- the theoretical practical wisdom of its measures We shall be able to speak to each other of facts, anticipatons. We shall be able to see and acknowledge our errors, to call upon the peo. pie to csi up~n the heads of those who, with gross ishnoeSy grosser ignorance, have imputed all the recent enilar;ssaents and dstresses the late ad- present administration must every where afford re- lief or hear the terrible voice of angry people. 'rime will make more converts in this as in every