Two-page letter from J. Wheelock at Dartmouth College to Senator Nicholas Gilman, forwarding a petition to be laid before Congress asking that measures be taken to reduce the number of stills in that part of the country, suggests a prohibitive tax;

Two-page letter from J. Wheelock in Hanover to Senator Nicholas Gilman informing him that the hard feeling between the north and south. Discontent at "an unjust war, conducted in weakness and folly." Constituiton violated. Propsect of the growth of a military aristocracy.