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Attorney General's Office 255 May 1856
I have the honor to request you to inform His Excellency, the Governor, that I have received his autograph letter of this morning in which he acknowledges mine of yesterday, written in reply to His Excellency's autograph letter of the 21st instant, and desires me to understand, that, with that letter his private correspondence on the matter must cease.
In obedience to that intimation I have abstained from addressing myself directly to his Excellency; and now have the honor, through your official channel to acquaint him with the reasons which make it impossible, for the present at least, to take the course which he expects me to take.
Adhering to the literal accuracy of every statement contained in mine of yesterday, and not finding those to which his Excellency refers materially if at all qualified by the correction which he has suggested, but which I cannot conscientiously accept, it is impossible for me to offer to the Chief Justice an apology that ought to satisfy his lordship. If my public apology on reference to what occurred at his Excellency's table have been incautious, an apology is due to his Excellency and I shall duly make it, although I never can admit that...
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