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į
You
were
quite right in saying
tat the
exigencies of my position compelled me to bring in your
exigency
Lu our
this
The
barb
The Governor
Late correspondence thought
fit to charge
mention an
ime with "avoiding
important incident
"
to
So far as I was concerned it was
utterly uncimportant.. But the warning
was not lost upon me
Twice Lad I in the most pointed
mauner
in
my
retters called the
to this
attention of the Governor
statement without mentioning and it was passed by
very
in silence.
Had Somitted to give you
my authority
now, it might,
who
-The Secretary
knows, have been said to the
of State that I had avoided mentioning
my
informant,
that it was
untrue