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this was the reason I could not accept the agency of the Bureau here &c. Extracts of this letter is now or will being circulated here with a record  I suppose I raise a crusade for Political Effect &c to injure me and it is said Extracts of letters to you from all parts of the State are in the hands of the Committee & no doubt will be set out to the different Counties for political purposes and to make us all with yourself as odious as they can

General I know what little I wrote to you is true as stated by me to you & I can substantiate it by unimpeachable testimony. I care nothing about the matter, if the facts are reported from that Extract correctly, but each one give his