Morning cold with a sharp North wind. I went to the Office and passed my time in reading, writing and Accounts as usual. Nothing passed of any consequence. The Globe has made a furious attack upon my father which is likely to unsettle very much our political position in this quarter. I am becoming daily more and more disgusted with politics and see them in a light which affords me no satisfaction. But for the purpose of understanding more clearly what the position of Mr. Hallett will be, I called upon him and subsequently met him and asked him to my Office. I there asked him many questions, all of them having reference to the present state of affairs and gathered from them that the Jackson party was still persevering in its design of throwing off all persons coming through the Antimasonic quarter into their ranks. The policy seems to be to court the Southern States, and I have no objection to this, for it leaves us open here to a change of policy if Mr. Van Buren should be elected, and this despotic tyranny of an old bruiser be removed. Mr. Hallett kept me until after two. Home, where Joseph H. Adams dined. Afternoon, Sismondi, Ariosto and Forster. Evening at home, Swift.