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probation of my conduct in accepting the first of
fee in the Union, but also indicative of the good
dispositions of the citizeus of your State, towards
their sister States, and the probability their speedi
ly acceding to the new general government.


In justification of the opinion, which you are
pleased to express, of my readiness ''to advise
every measure, calculated to compose party divi.
sions, and to abate any animosily that may be ex-
cited by mere difference Of opinion. take the
liberty of referring you to the sentiments commu-
nicated by me to the two house of Congress. On
this occasion, am likewise happy in being able
to add the strongest assurances, that entertain
well grounded expectation that nothing will be
wanting, on the part of the different branches OF
the general government, to render the Unlon," as
perfect and more safe, than ever it has been."


A difference of opinion, on political points, is
not to be imputed to freemen, as fault; since it
is to be presumed that they all actuated by
an equally laudable and sacred regard for the
liberties of their country. If the mind is so
formed in different persons, to consider the
same object to be somewhat different in its nature
and consequences, as it happens to be placed in
different points of view and if the Oldest, the
ablest, and the most virtuous statesmen have often
differed in Judgment, to the best forms of gov
ernment-we ought indeed, rather to rojoice, that
so much has been effected than to regret, that
more could not, all at once be accomplished.


Grati6ed by the favourable sentiments, which
are evinced in your address to me, and impressed
with an idea, that the citizens of your State are
sincerely attached to the interest, the prosperity
and the glory of America, most earnestly i'm
plore the divine benediction and guidance, in the
councils, which are shortly to be taken by their
delegates, on a subject of the most momenlous
consequence, mean the political relation, which
is to subsst hereafter between the State of North
Carolina, and the States now in union under the
new general government.


G. WASHINGTON.


New York, June 10 1889.