The pamphlet you were so kind as to send me manifests a zeal, which cannot be too much praised, for the interests of agriculture, the employment of our first parents of in Eden, the happiest we can follow, and the most important to our country.

I recieved by mr Mitchell your letter of Sep. 20. and the favor of the Benni seed,...

on every question of construction, carry ourselves back to the time when the constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, & instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was past.