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dence, and every circumstance, so far as we can judge, is 

 in your favor. I have not heard a word from any of our 

 friends of either family since you left Connecticut. I must 



now say a word to Hepsa 



DEAR HEPSA, This is the first time that I ever sat 

 down to write to you with my face eastward ; but I think I 

 shall now look upon the sun at his rising with additional 

 pleasure, since he will shine upon two of my dearest 

 friends before he illuminates New Haven. I have thought 

 of you, my dear sister, often during this week, and I have 

 felt for you sincerely when I considered that the ligaments 

 which bound you to your family were so interwoven with 

 the cords of your heart that they must bleed when torn 

 asunder. But I will not enhance your grief by dwelling 

 upon the subject. Think how happy you will be to return 

 to the bosom of your family, and to welcome your friends 

 to Newport. I trust that David and I shall be among the 

 first from Connecticut who will enter your doors 



The effect of his oration at Hartford is thus stated 

 in a letter to his brother: 



TO MR. G. S. SILLIMAN. 



NEW HAVEN, July 24, 1802. 



THE oration was a systematical delineation of 



the doctrines of modern philosophy, as they affect religion, 

 government, and the morals and habits of private life, and 

 a comparison of them with the practical system of New 

 England, with respect to these three great interests of 

 society. It is hardly consistent with propriety, to detail 

 in a letter what was said by the friends of the cause which 

 I advocated. Suffice it to say, that their praises far ex- 

 ceeded the demands of justice. Babcock's paper, after a 

 long piece upon the abuses of the society in permitting 

 orators to write their own sentiments, pronounces Dwight's 

 oration of last year one of the most execrable, malicious, 



