"Dear Sir: I congratulate you on your return to your family and county, and am happy to hear that you are in good health. I long to see you, but do not expect to have that pleasure till about the middle of the month, about which time I must go to Frankfort. The letter which you sent me from Botetourt lay in one of my neighbor's houses two or three weeks, so that I did not receive it until a few days ago; so that I have not had time to pay attention to the request made in your letter; indeed I do not think myself capable of draughting any thing of so great importance. I think that the main points to which the legislature ought to attend are the Alien and Sedition laws, and the laws respecting raising regulars and volunteers-all of which are certainly unconstitutional in the most dangerous instances; the first affecting the trial by jury, and the second the freedom of the press, the two great palladiums of liberty. But I think the last is the most highly dangerous, because, if in the present instances the Executive does not abuse the powers with which Congress has invested him, it will become a popular precedent for giving the same powers on some future occasion. I feel great anxiety that the conduct of our legislature should be firm, spirited, and constitutional, and therefore would go to Frankfort in a few days, but I have been lately much harassed by some of my old bodily infirmities, and I have now been here two or three days, by which I find myself injured.

I am, dear Sir, Your friend and servant,

CALEB WALLACE"

"N.B. Our friend Nicholas is now publishing a letter on the points I have mentioned, which is more masterly than any thing that has appeared on them. If you should doubt the temper of the legislature, would it not be best to keep the business in agitation until the members have an opportunity to read the letter?

Hon. John Breckinridge, Frankfort Kentucky."

"LEXINGTON, 13th Nov'r, 1798.

"My Dear Sir: I am happy to find that the resolutions which have been adopted by the House of Representatives meet with the warm approbation of the people. I am still anxious to hear that they have also been concurred in by the Senate, which I hope has been the case. Mv health and some business which can not be neglected will prevent my being at Frankfort before the next week. I wish the Convention business to be passed, if possible. Besides my general fears relative to that case, I dread the consequences of the heats and factions which may arise on this question at a time when other great political considerations require unanimity and decision in the legislature, and I fear that nothing can avoid the mischief but postponing the question concerning a Convention.

A petition from the Trustees of the Transylvania Seminary and Kentucky Academy is gone or going to the legislature, praying for the confirmation of an union of these institutions. If you have not made up your opinion on the subject, I must request that you would suspend doing so until I see you, because I am convinced that the interests of the community may be materially affected by the decision of the Assembly.

Your Resolutions have given the Palsy to the friends of the Federal Administration in this quarter, which I believe will be their effect throughout this State, and I hope will have considerable effects in some of the other States, and check the high-toned nerves of the Administration.