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 748 DociDiients If my voice can have any weight in the case, the course I have pursued will secure .its utmost influence. I cannot say, however, what chance your brother may stand, as this will depend upon a variety of considera- tions. The course of our Legislature was on the whole a prudent one, and the nomination question was disposed of admirably. Every thing is in confusion here but all hopes of an adjustment of the tariff on sound revenue principles are fast melting away. Both parties are in truth looking only to an arrangement, which shall not impair the protecting system and the true game now is to secure the manufacturing interest, while the South is to be beguiled. Let our friends therefore keep their eyes wide open. Denounce all partial arra?igements as worse than nothing, and if we can do no more, we will maintain our moral strength at home. I have only time to add that I am very truly yours Rob. Y. Hayne ]. H. Hammond Esq. XIII. James Hamilton, Jr. to James H. Hammond. Rice Hope Savannah River Jan"^ i6"' 1832. I was exceedingly mortified, my Dear Sir, on my return to my House at dark to find your Note, if it had been earlier received I should have sent my Boat off at once for you under the hope that M". Hammond could have given you leave to pass the evening with me in my solitary BoK in the Swamp. Nothing would have gratified me more than to have had a long conversation with you over a Cup of Coffee and a good fire and nothing I assure you shall prevent my visiting you at Silver Bluff on my return from Pendleton but some overruling or unavoidable accident as I desire much to see you before the meeting of our Convention, which I believe will be one of the most important assemblies in its probable in- fluence on public opinion and public measures that has ever convened in the State. ' I have no doubt it will sketch the chart which we are to Steer by after the adjournment of Congress. The Committee on Manufactures will report in favor of an excess of Revenue over and above the necessary wants of Government of 5 Millions for internal improvements and Mr. ^PLane's other projects which I trust will arouse poor old dyeing Vir- ginia. We must push on vigorously towards Spring and have the people pre- pared not only to detect the fraud of a deceptive adjustment of the tariff 1 Addressed : "Col. James H. Hammond (of S. C.) At Mrs. Ma.Kwe'.l's, Savan- nah." 2 The allusion is to a convention of delegates from all the state rights and free trade as. sociations in the state, which assembled at Charleston, February 22, 1832, and over which Governor Hamilton presided. See Houston, NuHificaticn in South Carolina, p. 105.