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 improvement in the state of the National representation, as well as in certain of the executive departments of the Government.

It seems that we most fully agree as to the political expediency, I might perhaps have said the imperious necessity, of a competent Reform at the present momentous crisis.—We are both anxious that it should be directed to the same ends—the general security and internal tranquillity of the State—But we differ materially as to the principles on which it should be founded, as most conducive to the views which we both entertain.

You are an advocate for an extension of the privilege of voting to such a degree as would be little short of universal suffrage; whilst I am fully convinced that the danger resulting from such an extension