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[Page 4] It is needlefs for me, however, to occupy your time and my paper with these discufsions.  I have too much confidence in your intelligence to suppose that I could make any suggestion which has not already occurred to your mind. The Bill is still under discufsion in the Senate, with doubtful prospects as to its alternate pafsage.  I rather think it will not pafs.  If it should not, the South will then rally upon the 36 [degree sign] 30 [? degree sign ?], line, and there fighting will [tri]umph or be defeated.  In fighting for that line we shall be carrying out the spirit of the Virginia Resolutions In sustaining the adjustment Bill, we should be utterly disregarding those Resolutions. It was said that Fillmore would come out for "the adjustment" and use his whole influence in its favour.  But it seems that he has caught the prevailing spirit of the times, and has concluded that the "mum" policy is the best. Since he has gotten into the Presidential chair, he has no opinions for the public ear.  You have seen his Cabinet and can judge from them what his policy will be. I hope that the prospects for the farming interest are good.  I never make any professions of love for the people, because such professions are so often made with bad designs.  But an afsociatio[n] with professional politicians is very apt to exhibit to our view, [is] a stronger light, the dignity, the importance and the purity of the farming interest -- I am always glad to hear from you, and wish you would write often -- I am with great regard yr friend [? ?]: [Th] S. Bocock

Submitted and transcribed by: Susan Shields Sasek.  I don't know who the letter was sent to, but my great aunt Virginia Butler Priddy gave it to my father many years ago (if I remember correctly, sometime in the 1970s).

[SSS Note -- characters or words in brackets [ ] are either my comments or items that I either could not read or wasn't sure about]

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