with the restraints of the Embargo then existing. and their restlessness under it. That there was nothing which might not be attempted to rid themselves oi it. That be had information of the most unquestionabie certainty, that cer- tain citizens Of the Eastern States q think he named Massachusetts particu- larly) were in-negoeiation with agents ot the British Government; tie object of which was an agreement that the New England States should take no farther part in the war, [the commercial var the $ warofrestrictions,o asitwas ealledl then going on; and that, without tor~ mally declaring their separation from the Union, they should withdraw from all aid and obedience to them, NC From that moment, says Mir. j., ] saw the necessity of abandoning 1t, the em- bargol and, instead of efecting our pur- pose by this peaceful weapon, we must 1 fight it out, or break the Union" In another letter Mir. Jefferson adds: s' i doubt whether a sIngie tact known 10 the world, will carry as clear conviction to it of the correctness of our knowledge of the reasonable views of the federal party of that day, as that disclosed by this the most nefarious and daring at- tempt to discover the Union, of which the Hartford Convention was subse- quent chapter, and both of these having failed, Consolidation becomes the fourth chapter of the next book oftheir history But this opens with a vast accession ol strength from their younger recruits who, having nothing in them of the feel ings and principles of '76, now look tc a single and splendid Government, &c riding and ruling over the plunderet ploughman and beggared yeomanry.' (4th vol. 4l9, 4229

 