CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12] — Page 412

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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