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separating, told me if I would go with him to the drawing-room and take coffee, his Secretary would give me the directions I desired. So I had another tete-à--tete with Mr. and Mrs. Madison, in the course of which Mr. M. gave amusing stories of early religious persecutions in Virginia, and Mrs. M. entered into a defence and panegyric of the Quakers, to whose sect, you know, she once belonged. . . . At eight o'clock I took my leave. To Edward T. Channing, Boston. Georgetown, D. C., January 22, 1815. At the Headquarters of the assembled wisdom of the nation, I suppose, dear Edward, you will expect from me something on politics; and, if I write you anything, it must be about the last act or the last rumor, for such things here never survive the day or the hour that produced them. The last remarkable event in the history of this remarkable Congress is Dallas's Report. You can imagine nothing like the dismay with which it has filled the Democratic party. All his former communic