
          other southern states to join her in a
Southern Confederacy. The politicians will
be in favor of this movement because it
will increase the number of the offices of honor
and profit and some of the intelligent inhabitants
of the southern states may favour the proposition
on account of apparent tendency to check
the encroachments of the north.

We shall look forward with an anticipation
of pleasure for your visit and
shall not fail to reserve a nook for your
accomodation. I need not say that Mrs H.
and the girls were much pleased to learn
that you were to favour us with a visit at
the time of the transfer of power although
we do not apprehend any very serious
resistance to the government of [President?]
elect we shall be tranquilized in our
anxiety in regard to the future by the presence of
our friends in the present.

I remain as ever
Truly yours
Joseph Henry

Dr John Torrey

        