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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