I have nothing of a political nature worth communicating. Our legislation in the Senate has been for the most part confined to matters of a local and private nature, until within the last two or three days during which time we have had under discussion a Bill for the distribution among the several States of the surplus revenues anticipated to be in the Treasury after the year 1833 by which time the [extingushment] of the public debt is confidently anticipated. [...] The south will at that time strenuously insist upon a reduction of the public burthens so as to reduce the revenue within the limits of our actual wants. This will be, I anticipate, as strenuously oppos'd by the manufacturers, and the people will have to decide between us.