NIILEMoNT, AT. January l0st, 1s3s
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Dedr Sl9'--

 discover two letters in the Gazette of December the 7th, in which Patton and myself are charged of having betrayed the trust reposed i'll us. l deny the charge as wholly unfounded and unjust. Every io- cal measure that we were instructed in, we attended to, to the best of our abiIi- ties. As to public measures, we were wholly free and untrammeled, and did what we thought was best calculated to promote the public interest. Whoever wrote those letters have been entirely mistaken as to the tar and feathers, and other sage remarks. l have been too long known in this county for such vile efforts to have any effect with the citizens of this county. ] wrote Woodruff an answer to those letters, Tn as mild manner as pos- sibie. l cannot seriously notice such stuff, and coming from the source that it did Although they did not sign their names. I have pretty correct idea from whence they originated. Such men as they are, their censure is praise with me. When such men begin to praise me, I am pretty certain of having done mething wrong, but when they cry out crueifxion and de- nunciatien, l am certain of being in the right. The story of Aristides is ever present to me when have 10 deal with the people. do not believe that these letter writers can ever induce the people of this county to present the shell to me, They know well l do not like ten years banish- ment.

 Very respectfully, your friend