Your very obedient servant,
.. PETER Il. HOMER.


NATHAN APPLETON, ESQ.
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BosroN, April 81, 1876.


SIR have your letter Of yesterday, and its con-
tents have given me no small surprise


Certainly nothing was further from my thoughts
in applying the term NactDg agent, &c" to you,
than that was furnishing you any ground of COM
plant and cannot now think that does furnish any
just ground intended it merely as the statement
of fact not very important to be sure but notori-
ous-your exhibition of the Manc hester samples at
the Capitol, and advocating the interest of the Man
chester manufacturers. ,........5


In this, think, you were acting the part Of an
agent, doing precisely what a regularly appointed
agent would be expected to do. ! In referring to
your letter in the Union, only did it as connected
with the transaction, not furnishing the evidence
of your agency. To say the truth, read your let
ter very hastily; have never recurred to it, and
have not now the means of readily doing so. The
only impression upon my mind in relation TO it is,
that you claim TO have acted spontaneously and
gratuitously in the matter. You will certainly ad-
NIT that the parties most deeply interested in the
change Of the tariff which you advocate are the
seem to be irresistible that they were the principals
in interest in the exhibition. You do me injustice
in applying the terms accusation or misdirecot Of
your motives to anything which j have written. aa


have made no charge against you'll have in'-
puted no motives-those rest in your own bosom; no
man acts without motives. Or the supposition that
in this transaction you were acting from feeling Of
kindness towards old friends, and wish to oblige
them, the motive would, I think, be generally
thought quite as worthy as many others which
might be suggestedaG g6,5rH.D .Y F1a&-aa- 80 1a,'


trust this explanation will be satisfactory to you
II you have such wish, have no objection to the
publication of this correspondenceor if you prefer
it will give you separate certificate that, IN ap
plying the term to you of'actipg agent Of the Man
chester manufacturers,' only intended to express
the fact Of your exhibition of Manchester samples
in the Capitol, with view to influencing the action
Of Congress on the tariff, without connexion with
any other circumstance or consideration whatever.


am, sir, very truly, your obedent servant, @


'I '.'. N. APPLETON.


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