(4292) [HUNT to LAl\ilAR]
(Memucan Hunt, Norfolk, Virginia, to M. B. Lamar, October 8, 1836, introducing Mr. Rudder, bearer of an official letter to the President.] (4293) (CHAMBERS CARD] A Card The Lexington Observer and Reporter of yesterday contains a publication by Edward J. Wilson and G. L. Postlethwaite filled with personal abuse against myself. I cannot descent to bandy epithets with them before the public. The duty I owed a suffering and much abused people, required that I should express and refute the calumnies with which Messrs. Wilson & Co. have sought lo gratify the malignity of their disappointed avarice and vanity by blasting a whole people struggling for existence. I have vindicated that people, and, so far as I have heard, satisfactorily, to the public; and I have done this, not by naked assertions or abusive epithets, but by impregnable facts and irrestible deductions. This is established by the attempt of Messrs. Wilson and Postlethwaite to obviate its effects by bullying me in the public papers. I do not remember ever to have been deterred from the performance of a duty by personal fear; and surely I never have been frightened from it by the blusterings of braggants; and Messrs. Wilson and Postlethwaite will profit as little by bullying or fighting Texians, as they have by slandering them. I wear my country's sword, and it matters but little with me, whether I employ it against the hired exterminal~rs of a despot, or the more execrable calumniators of a suffering people. In either case, the spirits of the Alamo and San Jacinto will direct its point.
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