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before the public in defence of my private reputation, l feel confident that an impartial and candid people will justify me in what l have said, and sustain me in the propriety ol my course. have no disposition to assail others, however vulnerable they may be- only seek to defend myself, ill the enjoyment ot that respect from my lellow-men, to which a long life of conscious recttude of purpose and conduct, entities me. ask no more. Should there be other charges, of wrong doing, against me, which now know not of, will thank any respectable man to bring them forward. here pledge myself to re- flute them before the bar of an enlightened public opinion

 should any one desire to see the papers to which l have referred, as being in my possession, and sustaining the statements l have made, they may be found in the hands oi Mir. Wm. E. Woodruff, with whom shall leave them during my absence from the city.

 Respectfully,

 CHESTER ASHLEY.

 LITTLE Rock, August 24, 1844.