RC (DLC); at foot of text: “Mr Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ as received 18 July 1812 and so recorded in SJL, which incorrectly dates the letter 15 July. Enclosure: Ingersoll, An Oration, delivered at Mr. Harvey’s, Spring Garden, before a Very Numerous Meeting of Democratic Citizens, July 4, 1812 (Philadelphia, 1812), predicting that the War of 1812 would prove to be “a sharp, short, successful war” for the United States (p. 4); describing the war’s potential benefits for the next generation of Americans and foreseeing that England, France, and Europe in general would be ruined by 1850, when the population of the United States would have grown to thirty-million inhabitants (including assimilated Indian tribes) spreading to the Mississippi River, encompassing Canada, and sharing a common language and common sympathies; predicting that the United States would become the world’s refuge for liberty, religious tolerance, and virtue; proclaiming that Americans at mid-century would be fully educated and harvesting “every fruit of every field, every product of every sea, every creation of ingenuity, with their incomparable facilities of cultivating to incalculable advantage the correlative interests of agriculture, manufactures and commerce” (p. 5); and concluding that with a victorious United States as its model, the entire world would be reborn.