Your approbation of Tone’s Tract gives me sincere pleasure. But I am Sure it would produce ten fold effect if your fellow citizens knew your estimation of it. And as this Could be expressed1 in no terms so genuine as your own I am almost emboldened to request your permission to make your letter public. If this cannot be granted I hope that my motive being the public Good and not merely private Regard may serve to excuse the indiscretion.