Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry
bull: it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an
animal. You will be more exposed than others to have these animals
shaking their horns at you, because of the relation in which you stand
with me. Full of political venom, and willing to see me and to hate me
as a chief in the antagonist party, your presence will be to them what
the vomit-grass is to the sick dog, a nostrum for producing ejaculation.
Look upon them exactly with that eye, and pity them as objects to whom
you can administer only occasional ease. My character is not within
their power. It is in the hands of my fellow-citizens at large, and will
be consigned to honor or infamy by the verdict of the republican mass of
our country, according to what themselves will have seen, not what
their enemies and mine shall have said. Never, therefore, consider these
puppies in politics as requiring any notice from you, and always show,
that you are not afraid to leave my character to the umpirage of
public opinion. Look steadily to the pursuits which have carried you
to Philadelphia, be very select in the society you attach yourself
to, avoid taverns, drinkers, smokers, idlers, and dissipated persons
generally; for it is with such that broils and contentions arise; and
you will find your path more easy and tranquil. The limits of my paper
warn me that it is time for me to close with my affectionate adieu.
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