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no honest or unprejudiced mind can doubt any longer. Injury has been done by untrustworthy reports in regard to these affairs. There has already been a disposition manifested to use them in the coming national canvass. Unable to answer the many inquiries, and more sensible of error here, in not communicating the true state of things to the public, than elsewhere in the discharge of my duties -, the apology to my conscience has been that it was not in my power to do it and meet the imperative responsibilities upon me. I have ordered the issue of the pamphlet sent you. It is not proposed to theorize but to furnish facts and let those who read reason for themselves and to send them out in such installments as will secure attention, at least from those most interested.

Sensible of the great responsibilities resting upon you, greater than ever rested upon any other in our land. I isteem it an honor if in my humble way able to lighten these at whatever cost of personal effort or suffering