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Suspect who you mean and here I will remark that if I am correct in my conjecture and if you intend to insinuate that I have eyer directly or indirectly or in nny mamier whatever intentionally treated these persons with_the least disrespect or impropriety. You insinuate what is falsei yon have discribed two characters in the last clause of your.letter which you Say you can not recognise as friends and which I suppose I am to conclude you apply to me, but which I think do not at all Suit me I do not merit Such -a portrait and you seem indirectly to insinuate that I "lu~ve willfully tried to hurt your feelings chooseing such time, place, and circumstances as put it out of your power to treat Such conduct as it merits"- Sir I can think of no time, no place, no m,1•cwmstances, when a per- son could wantonly and openly wound my feelings without having it [in] my power either instanta or in a very Short time afterwards to resent Such treatment as it merits, but you poor pitiful good natured creature, you could have your feelings wounded, and Suffer the Sacred name of friendship to be basely prostituted as a cover from behind which you could be assailed in the l\fost vulnerable part, you could suffer all, this to be done by me as you insinuate and find no time, no place to punish it no way to resent it but by Sullenness for I know not what more deserving name to give it. · Since when called on to State what ails you, like a Sullen child you answer not but continue to pout and doubtless the Same remedy applied to Sullen children would be of equal service to you, the other character you have drawn is that of a tattler a talebem-er and if you intend to apply this [to] me, every person who knows me, all who have known me from infancy will at once give the lie to Such a charge. I will now Sir :Most point- edly, observe, that if you intend to insinuate (for your letter is such a type of ambiguity and inconsistancy that I [hardly] know what you intend) if however you intend to insinuate that I have under the cover of Friendship Secretly or in any other way intentionally in- jured you I pronounce Such an insinuation false and the person who makes it a Liar, and further if you intend to insinuate that I have been or am a tattler a talebearer Ma-gnifying trifles into Mighty things with an evil intent, giveing my own foolish conjectures as facts and attempting to injure others by dark and ambiguous insinuations I also pronounce Such an insinuation false and the person who makes it a liar. I shall now close this communication, probably the last one which will ever pass between us, by reiterating the nssertion which I re- peated to you verbally that I am unconscious of ever haveing at any timia, in any place or under any circumstances injured you or wounded your feelings or even harboured the Most distant the least Shadow of ~i:i intentioij ~o Q.c;> so in my life, Actuated by a Sence of my duty to-
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