Our fœdral friends in Congress, extremely allarmed at the Success of the Antifœdarelsts in the recent elections in this state, and dreading the results which they are persuaded, will be the Election of Mr Jefferson to the Presidency of the United States—has induced several of them to entreat me to write to Your excellency and to Sollicit of You to convene the Legislature in the hopes that an Act may be passed directing the appointment of Electors by district elections, in which case they are perfectly confident that Mr Jeffersons Election will be defeated and equally so that Mr Adams & Mr Pinkney will be elected—

I am well aware my Dear Sir that convening the Legislature for this express purpose involves embarrassment, but Your enemies, who are also the Enemies of order and Good Government, will be loud in their censures on the Measure,1 whilst on the contrary your friends will Justify the ^it^, as the only way to save a nation from those disasters, which It may and probably will experience from the Misrule of a Man, who has given such strong evidence that he was opposed to the Salutary Measures of those who have been heretofore at the helm, and who is in fact pervaded with the mad french Philosophy— Indeed my Dear Sir ^as^ It is impossible to appreciate all the painful results which may flow from Mr Jeffersons conduct should he be president, as the Country may be by his means involved in a war with britain. It seems to me that these considerations will Justify the Measure of calling the Legislature,—2 I am My Dear Sir with perfect Esteem Your Excellency: Obed Servant