Your errors, as we think them, appear to be the errors of a fair and honest mind, and are of a kind to be effectually cured by correct information of facts on both sides.
"Probably we may err because we are ignorant of many things which have fallen under your notice.

We shall no doubt agree when we shall have opportunity to compare notes, and each is made acquainted with all that the other knows.

I confidently expect an honorable peace in the course of six months, but may be deceived, as the future course of things cannot be foreseen.
"The present is one of the finest and most promising seasons I ever knew; the harvest to appearance will be very abundant.

Heaven appears to be rewarding this part of the country for their conduct in opposing the present war." Perhaps the good father did not mean to be malicious, but this is rather a wicked little thrust at the son's vehemently expressed political views.
On this very same date, July 10, 1813, Morse writes to his parents:-- "I have just heard of the unfortunate capture of the Chesapeake.

Is our infant Hercules to be strangled at his birth?
Where is the spirit of former times which kindled in the hearts of the Bostonians?
Will they still be unmoved, or must they learn from more bitter experience that Britain is not for peace, and that the only way to procure it is to join heart and hand in a vigorous prosecution of the war?
"It is not the time now to think of party; the country is in danger; but I hope to hear soon that the honor of our navy is retrieved.