You will receive this advice, I know, with your accustomed good nature." The next letter, dated November 1, 1812, is a very long one, over eighteen large pages, and is an impassioned appeal to his father to look at the war from the son's point of view.

I shall quote only a few sentences.
"Your last letter was of October 2, via Halifax, accompanying your sermon on Fast Day.

The letter gave me great pleasure, but I must confess that the sentiments in the sermon appeared very _strange_ to me, knowing what I, as well as every American here does, respecting the causes of the present war....

'Tis the character of Englishmen to be haughty, proud, and overbearing.

If this conduct meets with no resistance, their treatment becomes more imperious, and the more submissive and conciliating is the object of their imperiousness, the more tyrannical are they towards it.