Extract from Francis W. Gilmer to William Wirt

The old Citzn of Monticello is such a diplomatist, that he has quite baffled our schemes to obtain his opinion: and when we ask him one thing he tells us, he ‘has reason to believe’ something about another. A plague upon all diplomacy I say.

RC (Vi: Francis Walker Gilmer Papers, Acc. 18763).
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August 21, 1821
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