They are impressed with a belief that your immediate presence here at the present crisis is all-important. I am convinced that nothing could be more gratifying to the prominent men of the Republican party than to receive a visit from you at this time. Mr. Crawford would be delighted to see you. His physicians, four or five in number, have had a consultation to-day, and have pronounced him quite out of danger.
... We have not yet been able to devise a plan by which Mr. Jefferson can be drawn out, nor is it probable that any could be adopted which would be as likely to succeed as that of your addressing him on the subject. If nothing more can be obtained, the letter he has already written you may be of great importance.
In haste, I am, etc.
NATHANIEL MACON TO GALLATIN.
Washington, 16th January, 1824.
Sir,—The enclosed has been handed to me by Mr. Cobb, a member of the House of Representatives from Georgia. It is sent to you as the best mode of communicating its contents. I know not to what it relates.
Tender my good-will to Mrs. Gallatin and to any of your children who may be with you.
Mr. Crawford is mending slowly; not yet in a condition to write.
God preserve you and all that are near and dear to you many years, is the sincere wish of
Your old friend.