Nathan Sargent from John M. Clayton, Jan. 17, 1853

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Buena Vista Del Jany 17th 1853

My dear Sir,

I thank you sincerely for you kind letter.  Was there ever seen in the history of this world, a more villainous accusation than was made against me in the Senate, and a more triumphant exposure of its authors! Gen Cass was once a school master in Wilmington Delaware, and yet it seems he never learned Geography.  British Honduras was never in Central America; and Central America is a term which was never applied by any man who knew what he was talking about to any thing but the five states of Central America, called the Central American Confederation. The Balize was once a part of Yucatan and the British settlement there, was called British Honduras, merely from the fact that it lies on the bay of Honduras, by a part of which, it is divided from the Central American state of Honduras. Its proper name ought to be British Yucatan. A school boy ought to be flogged for not knowing Geography better than Mr. Cass, Downs & Co. As to Weller, the most stupid thing I ever did was to suffer him to remain in office till Erving turned him out. I refused to pay his drafts; hence his tears! How does Mr. Cass feel under Mr. Bragg’s letter & Mr. King’s explanations? Was it not monstrous that Cass