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than by divesting the controversy altogether of its political bearing. We cannot, however, as a board of honor, mutually chosen to preside in a matter touching the honor of two gentlemen, give any decision, which would have a tendency to relieve one entirely from any and every imputation, whilst charges of a personal nature remained in full force before the public against the other. We do not require either to retract any thing said about the political affairs of the country. Nor do we require General Chambers to withdraw any thing he has said in defence of his country, which might be legitimately said by one gentleman in answer to charges made by another, in relation to the condition of any country. On the other hand we cannot consistently with our sense of propriety require Col. Wilson to retract any opinion he may have formed in relation to the affairs or the citizens of Texas. We would leave all that to the enlightened judgment of the public-with the hope that the friends of Gen. Chambers will reconsider their former opinion. We close by expressing the ardent ·wish, not only of ourselves, but what we consider the public opinion, that the difference he settled on the basis proposed. W. C. Galt,
Geo. W. Chambers, A. Throckmorton,
W. H. Pope, James Love.
"The explanation on the part of the Board being satisfactory, the undersigned, on behalf of Gen. Chambers, accept the foregoing award. Geo. C. Childress. A. S. Thruston. We wish it to be distinctly understood that it is not intended that any part of this statement should be construed to the prejudice of Messrs. Wilson & Postlethwaite; but it was clue to Gen. Chambers to show that the only consideration by which,he was evidently actuated throughout the whole affair was the interest and honor of his country, without the least regard to the danger incurred. Geo. C. Childress, of Texas. A. S. Thruston, Col. Tex. Army.
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