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say. I have been outrageously wronged. The Dobsons have been violating their Contract, and doing everything to make our time overtaken they could, and yet, I have no redress it seems, except thro' you. 

Now, I desire you to come here, forthwith, and attend to this, business. If you do not, I will be compelled to follow the advice, of Capt Gates, which will be very painful to me, for I have never been one of those, who could with composure, make the innocent, suffer [[strikethrough]] with [[/strikethrough]] for the guilty. 

If my means were ample, I might drop the whole thing & pocket the loss. This I cannot in justice to my family do. 

I am, as you know, unable to provide for them by my own exertions and it cannot be expected, that shall bear this loss in silence 

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