From the commencement of your administration You have committed nothing but blunders, and the first and greatest was your calling that old Federalist & Hunker, to be your Secretary of State, or prime minister. Your conduct to Messrs. Van Buren & Wright respecting the honorable and honest A. C Flagg, deserves never to be forgotten, the wilful misrepresentations you made to them should cause the blush of shame to tinge your cheek, while you have blood circulating in your veins. You well know the facts—and that the integrity of that lamented statesman Silas Wright could not lie, you know you wrote to both Messrs. Wright and Van Buren, to say, who they wished to be Secretary of the Treasury, and that they answered Mr. Flagg , and that you agreed, and said it should be so, yet afterwards appointed candid R. J. Walker!

In short, you have defeated the Democratic party in this state and the union. You have made many bad appointments and shown yourself an ingrate.

With due respect & good by, yours,