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recollect that I said at the time that there was so much business in my office that I could not attend to it and do Justice to the county without getting an extra man to attend to it. I do not wish any thing kept back that I said, there are some that differed with me in Politics that are so much disposed to See to everything that I do that I think it much for my protection that you give a full Statement of what I did say. It is true that I am and was called a Union man and the developments of time and the effects of revolution have not changed my political Status and if I am truly thankful for any one thing more than another it is that I opposed Secession and the disruption of our once glorious and loved government from its very inception. I proposed to the commissioners court on the 18th Inst. that I would ask you to turn it over to some one near this place from the fact that the great press of business and the Clamor some are making because it was turned over to me and they all said for me not to do so, that it was much to the interest of the Country and the people that it remain as it is. I received for this month what was said to be (40290) Forty Thousand two hundred and ninety pounds, which is now Sent out for distribution. but which was less than half that came for may. Consequently it is but rational to Conclude that your order "that they were to be doubled." did not reach Huntsville before they were shiped. I hope can have the remainder shiped yet. In order that you may see that as yet the story of distribution has not half been told I have taken Some