I have it in charge, from the House of Representatives of this State, to transmit to you a copy of their Resolution, concurred in also by the Senate, expressive of their high sense of the value of your services, and of their wish that our Country should enjoy, during another Presidential term, the benefit of your counsels. To a mind sufficiently elevated to perceive that a Nation’s gratitude is the proudest reward which the merits of a citizen can receive, this spontaneous, uncourted tribute of approbation to your past services, and of confidence in the future exertions of your patriotism & talents, cannot fail to be dear. Whilst to your honest ambition it must afford the noblest gratification, it will prove the source, I am persuaded, of new energy to your endeavours to advance the welfare and happiness of our country.—From the charge of ingratitude, so often objected to Republics, South-Carolina, distinguished for the correctness of her principles & her uniform devotion to the cause of liberty, will hereafter claim an honorable exemption. To the expression of her sense of your meritorious conduct, as Chief Magistrate, during the last seven years, & the flattering invitation to which that conduct has given rise, she has left nothing to be added.—Permit me, merely to assure you that my sentiments, as an individual, of the general character of your Administration, render far from unpleasing my present discharge of the duty assigned to me by that branch of our Legislature, over which I have the honor to preside.

I have the honor to be, Sir, very respectfully Your fellow-citizen