Howe discusses some business matters before discussing political matters: "I cannot say but what I should be glad to have Taylor Presdt, though I think it decidedly wrong to take a military man for that office, but my own private feelings would be gratified to see the democrats out of power for a season. It is a settled matter in my mind that the Democratic party so called must as a general thing be in the ascendancy, and I do not know that any triumph of the whigs would produce more than a temporary feeling of satisfaction. The great mass of our people (especially taking into consideration our foreign population) are to be managed by means which men of honour and a due sense of decency cannot descend to, and would not know how to employ if they wished. That party which is most decidedly blackguard and foul in its character must rule, the game of politics (in this country at least) is a filthy one at best and I think that unless a mans talents are such as to place him in such a commanding situation as to give him high parts to perform he had better let them alone be he whig or democrat."