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but that he acted under the excitement of that indignation which Gentlemen feel on receiving a gross personal insult. He has the pleasure to sign himself Very respectfully
the Hon Committee's Obedient Servant Ashbel Smith
[Endorsed] Dr. A Smith Jany 10th. 1839 Letter to Committee &c
No. 1001 1839 [Jan. 10.?], ASHBEL Sl\IITH, [HOUSTON, TEXAS], 'l'O MIRABEAU B [DON.APARTE] LAMAR, [HOUSTON, TEXAS]
B'ending [Smith to Burton, 1839, Jan. 10.) A. L. S. 1 p.
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1839 Jan. 10, J. RIDDLE, J_R., TO l\L B. LAMAR United States of America
State of l\Iississippi Holly Springs January 10th. 1839
Most Esteemed Sir
Permit me to congratulate you in the high and honourable office, to which your merit, and devotion to your adopted countrys ca,use, and their just appreciation by the intelligent Citizens of the Repub- lic have elevated you: nor can I refrain from the expression of similar feelings of pleasure and gratification at l\:1r. Burnetts promo- tion to the second Office: for I am induced to believe, that your mme intimate knowledge of this Gentleman personally, as well as the course of policy he pursued, when at the head of the "Provisional Goverment", if not indeed your confidence in his patriotic feelings, lead you to concur with me, in an opinion which has since been ratified by the suffrages of intelligent Freem€n,-that if errors be committed, they leaned to his Gountrys side, and for which he has been more '' sinned against, than sinning''; you will please present my best Respects to him, as the young man, who was honoured with reading his Message to Congress-by the bye, you will please send me one or more copies of your Inaugural Address and Message, as I continue to feel interested in every matter connected with your cause and Country- ' It affords me sincere gratification, to be able to inform you that "The three paragraphs omitted are purely personal.
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