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he would have greatly preferred you to any other person whatever, and that he would not have signed this paper if he had known you were an applicant for a mission - I trust you will feel no suspicion that Shaw has attempted in any degree to injure you or that he "·ould under any circumstances <lo so - I have spoken to all those who signed this document except Raymond and Crosby whom I haYe not yet seen but will if I can before the mail closes - Marshall informs me that he was utterly ignorant of your position and cared nothing particularly about Reily - He 'is a thor- ough partisan in politics and thinks all appointments ought to be dis- tributed among those who have been most active or as he expresses it "have been thoroughly identified with the issues of the camass"- The card which I send to the news is now signed by Clark Shaw & myself and ·probably will be by Raymond & Crosby. Gov Pease was desirous that Marshall should write an editorial explaining the transaction - He giws one sufticient reason for not appearing in the paper over his own signature - There ha,·e been a thousand other misstatements pub- lished about him, and he has newr though urged so to <lo, answered any of them - · Marshall says he will write on the subject when the article appears in the News - Gov Pease authorizes the News to speak for him, and is very desirous that this absurd and unfounded statement should re- ceive contradiction - I hiwe ncwr yet seen the version which appeared in the News and which Pe:1~e says was not the same as that of the Enquirer I shall speak of the matter however in my letter to Richard- son and he will no doubt make the correction as to his own Correspon- dent - It is matter of severe regret to myself and as I honestly believe to all who have been connected with this affair that you should have been wounded in feeling by this outrageous misrepresentation - I repeat to you again General that you have no intriguing enemies here whoever may attempt to poison your mind with the idea is grossly mistaken -
Yours trulv
James \Villie
To -
Genl. M. B. Lamar
No. 2530
1857 Sept. 4, J. HAMILTON, BLUFFTON, SOUTH CAROLINA TO M. B. LAMAR, [RICHMOND, TEXAS] 21 Bluffton Beaufort Dist. - So. C. Sept. 4h. 1857. My Dear Genl. I received after an immense delay your truly acceptable letter of the 30h. July. You destress me by your many fervent acknowl- edgments of gratitude You have placed me under those of the largest kind by permitting me to serve you. - Besides it was not your fault that finding it in my power, to make one of the largest fortune that any public agent ever made in the U. S. I failed thro the villany & perfidy of others. The obligation therefore in the sum total rests on
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