SIR,-Your letter of February the 18th came to hand on the 1st instant; and the request of the history of my physical habits would have puzzled me not a little, had it not been for the model with which you accompanied it, of Doctor Rush's answer to a similar inquiry. I live so much like other people, that I might refer to ordinary life as a history of my own. Like my friend the Doctor, I have lived temperately, eating very little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principle diet.

The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.

I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.

The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man.

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace