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An act of an unanticipated nature has over- whelmed me with distress. and now prompts me to call upon you in this public manner to extend to me, and the consideration of this deplorable event

 that calmness, which our unhappy county difficult ties may make desirable for each of you. desire not to appeal to you for sympathy to abate, for myself the rancor of those whose hostility is perhaps honestly felt, and which the unhappy death, by my hands. of aman once deserving sym pathy and popular esteem. will naturally tend to iafame.z While more deeply deplore this event than either of you possibly can, should do injus- tce to myself, and those enteared to me more than life. if withheld from you the assurance. that feel sustained by the conviction of my justification in this act of self defence. do not wish by this address, even to controvert the statements prejud- cial to the truth that must gain circulation respec