“I have but a few moments to write to you. Silence is the only answer to the things you mention; nor should I regard that
man as my friend who said a word more on the subject. I care little for attacks, but I
will not submit to defences; and I do hope and trust that you have never entertained a serious thought of engaging in so
foolish a controversy. Dallas’s letter was,
to his credit, merely as to facts which he had a right to state; I neither have nor shall take the least public notice,
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“An expression in your letter has induced me to write this to you, to entreat you not to interfere in any way in such a business,—it is now nearly over, and depend upon it they are much more chagrined by my silence than they could be by the best defence in the world. I do not know any thing that would vex me more than any further reply to these things. Ever yours, in haste,
