ttention which I know you to
possess. I am glad to hear that M. Cabanis is engaged in writing on the
reformation of medicine. It needs the hand of a reformer, and cannot
be in better hands than his. Will you permit my respects to him and the
Abbe de la Roche to find a place here.

A word now on our political state. The two parties which prevailed with
so much violence when you were here, are almost wholly melted into
one. At the late Presidential election I have received one hundred and
sixty-two votes against fourteen only. Connecticut is still federal by a
small majority; and Delaware on a poise, as she has been since 1775, and
will be till Anglomany with her yields to Americanism. Connecticut will
be with us in a short time. Though the people in mass have joined us,
their leaders had committed themselves too far to retract. Pride keeps
them hostile; they brood over their angry passions, and give them vent
in the newspapers which they maintain. They still make as much noise as
if they were the whole nation. Unfortunately, these being the mercantile
papers, published chiefly in the seaports, are the only ones which find
their way to Europe, and make very false impressions there. I am happy
to hear that the late derangement of your health is going off, and that
you are reestablished. I sincerely pray for the continuance of that
blessing, and with my affectionate salutations, tender you assurances of
great respect and attachment.

Th: Jefferson.

P. S. The sheets which you receive are those of the copying-pen of the
polygraph, not of the one with which I have written.

LETTER XXI.--TO JUDGE TYLER, March 29, 1805

TO JUDGE TYLER.

Monticello, March 29, 1805.

Dear Sir,

Your favor of the 17th found me on a short visit to this place, and I
observe in it with great pleasure a continuance of your approbation
of the course we are pursuing, and particularly the satisfaction you
express with the last inaugural address. The first was, from the nature
of the case, all profession and promise. Performance, therefore, seemed
to be the proper office of the second. But the occasion restricted me to
mention only the most prominent heads, and the strongest justification
of these in the fewest words possible. The crusade preached against
philosophy by the modern disciples of steady habits, induced me to dwell
more in showing its effect with the Indians than the subject otherwise
justified.

The war with Tripoli stands