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distinctly informed
that while
you and I do not think I have in any semblance.
since I have been in the colony but I refer,
communication yourself claimed to be the sole medium of
you the right of refusal to forward
laid way reserved to myself open to even the risk of a charge of neglect of duty
such communication as failed to
when your do in meet your approval: to this
your letter now under acknowledgment qualification I demurred and still demur so long
as such a reservation is found
of any have ever insisted on and this I think will be found to be the extent of
acquiescence I may have expressed.
I have never acted upon any other motive than
the public interest to the best of my ability
I refer, as you
your having been compelled to assert your authority with a peremptoriness "as painful to yourself as it possibly has been unpleasant to me"
I am bound to be pleased
that what I feel constrained to allude to as a
I feel
an Honor is your peremptory exercise of authority I cannot but regard
as a series of deliberate, unprovoked insults which commenced
on you