
          to me perhaps as to others here, but I shall have
opportunities to show it to men of science as the
work of an esteemed friend and as such I desire to possess it.

The revolutionary state of the country will
suspend my botanizing excursions for some time,
from my being a North American I am looked
upon as a man of liberal principles & have in
consequence become an object of suspiscious vigilance
to the central party. I will give you another reason
but I beg you will not  suspect me of boasting. I hold
the very highest standing as a Physician in this state. Chiapas
part of Vera Cruz & a small portion of Yucatan & my
brethren take advantage of the political circumstances
of the day to divert the feelings & operations of the [?]
against me & were it not for my widely extended popularity
I should long ago have been expelled the country. The
troops of the Genl [General] Govt [Government] are now approaching in force, the
federalist are uniting all the troops at this point which
will in a few days become a siege of slaughter
and all the horrors of civil war, a [?] [which?]
arrays father against son & brother against brother
in the field of death, & which developes & gives scope
for action to all the darker passions of the human
heart. I owe you much kindness & though years
of sorrow & sickness have rolled away & a thousand leagues
of ocean divide us, I have not forgotten that I owe to 
you much of my present respectability, & I am still
grateful for your favors & desirous to serve you, it only
remains for you to point the way.

Truly Yours
E. P. Johnson
        