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Lebanon April 30^th 1819

Dear Governor

I would long since have
written to you, but the subject was rendered
unnecessary by Co^l Ward's declining a
Poll. I saw soon after your departure
from this place Mr Catron, from the upper
Circuit, and he said in White, Overton, &C
that you would get three fourths of all the
Votes, let who would after. This I would
have written long since but I thought
you would have neither trouble nor un=
easiness.I supposed, when you had opposition
that you would feel anxiety, but I really
did not suppose, for one moment, that you
need apprehend defeat.

I do not know at this
time of anything to communicate, that
will interest you at this time, - as for myself
I am moving on in the business of the Law
and do better than I had hoped at the start
I am not idle nor lazy, and you will
remark a change in this

You may suppose my