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Extract of a letter to the Editors of the Missouri Advocate, dated January 3, 1826.

"Gentlemen: I have read the President's Message with the deepest concern and astonishment. I felt assured that Mr. Adams would carefully have avoided the rock upon which the administration of his father split; but he appears to have learned nothing by experience, and fearlessly strikes at the very foundation of all our free institutions. He complains of being palsied by the will of the People; and openly speaks of powers derived from a bounteous Providence, which may be exercised by himself and the Congress, in defiance of human authority. Is such language as this to be tolerated by the American people? and will they any longer slumber on their posts, when their sovereignty is threatened from the Presidential chair? The crisis has arrived, when they must rise in the majesty of their power, and speak in a voice which shall shake the giddy aspirants from their posts of fancied supremacy and magnificence, and prostrate them before their superiors. Mr. Adams, it is true, was elevated against the will of the people, by disobedient servants, to his present dignified station; but, he must not presume to preach such political heresy from the Presidential chair—for the Constitution will be amended, and the people, at the next election, will convince him, that their will and not his, must be the supreme law of this land. Many parts of the message are very alarming, and fraught with the most dangerous evils, which cannot be averted by one or two men, but by the united efforts of the nation. The people must take up this subject in time and look out for another Jefferson, who will bring back the government, and cause it to be administered upon the true democratic principle, and within the bounds of the Constitution."

I cannot dismiss this subject, without remarking, that I have been among those who thought you were sometimes too severe in your comments on Barton and Scott; but, I am now entirely reconciled to your course towards them. and the President, also; as they all appear to be opposed to the sovereignty of the people—and moreover, Messrs. Barton and Scott have attempted to justify their support of Mr. Adams, upon the grounds that he would do great things for the West and for Missouri. But, how sadly have we been disappointed, in this! The Message contains but two solitary recommendations of any interest to the West, and neither of them original with the President. The Occupation of the Columbia, is a favorite measure of Col. Benton's, and, in all probability, would not have met the support of Mr. Adams, but for the large interest the New-England whaling ships have in the Pacific. The land relief law, referred to by the President, has twice passed before, and no doubt would have passed again without his having said a word on the subject; so, that in fact I am satisfied, the interest of the Western country has not been the moving spring with Mr. Adams in any measure he has proposed.

"I am now fully convinced, that the election of Mr. Adams to the Presidency, is a serious calamity to the Western country; and those who were instrumental in his elevation, have much to answer for to the People."