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evetrane point, if

-point, if need be, of air

Judicial Committu

appeal to the

and to leave nothing to Consel that

I could, by any

myself;

lawfully do

and I do not think,

in

the

whole, that the Attorney General had

of the contest he provatted.

the best

ال

ofitie

It may

proceeding

inv

not

a

very

vvise

my part to say what

I have just said, but it is true

and necesary,

it Zeemo

to

me,

for

The

complete justification of the Chief justice from the charger evidently made against him on the strength of Mr Lister's report of my tions with him, and is the best explanation

of my

Den veva al

Ir conclusion let

state that

from

and, so favorit hav

case,

was

as

88

distinctly

the beginning to the gone, of Kwoke Aking's

on my

I acted independently,

without

judgment, and wrchant

Arra

orders,

now

advice or instructions from the Chief

Justive, and so

far

I have been

able to gather from his public and semi-public utterances in Can't and Chambers, sometimes in opposition

to what he would have advised; he had been instructing me.

if he

Knew, all the world. Thew, Mr. Smale felt strongly

and was

I

that

The

Pasl

schemently opposed to the

Coolio trade and of

sonduct in the carl).

^^

course,

incentive to me to

go

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it

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on what