HEAD QUARTERS.


EASTERN DEPARTMENT
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Indian Springs, August 10, 1925.


Sn-I have received your Excelency's
letter of the 9th post marked Miiedgc-
Vile 8th August" acknowledging the pub
lication of letter from me, the original of
which YOU say you had not received. To
this have only to say that it was forwarded
in due time. 1t is doubtless known to you
that yours of the 18th July, was published,
as it is presumed, by your authority, IN
newspaper before | replied to it.--iou
could not therefore feel much surprise" at
the publication of my reply. had seen
with regret that for United States oifcer
to write TO you, was in fact to write tor the
new wspapcrs, and that to differ from you IN
opinion, was to be denounced as an Offend
er-Since this was apparent to me, that Is
since the receipt of yours OF the 17th Ju-
", have been well aware of the tax which
our little differences of opinion would impose
upon me-a tax which conscious innocence
suffers under the groundess imputation of
guilt. | was not therefore much surprised
al the gross misrepresentation Of your ded-
inns hotestQtcm Commissioners, nor at the
concluding paragraph of yours of the 9th
wherein YOU say 81 have lost no time to dl-
rect YOU to forbear further intercourse with
this government" These expressions ike
others contained in some OF your previous
letters (but of which | took no notlce)
wherein YOU speak of my using the militia


,uainst Georgia, &c. appear to eVince We
~ high degree Of that prejudice, and pWa-
red hiide ofoHice which might we'll be eX-
pcctcd to proinpt some little European des-
bot "to feel power and forget right
/ Were vou some little German prince for
example. (the most self-important and over
bearing of all the crowned tribe,) ana ia
! rurk, it would in that case excite no sur"
prs That the little German Prince shoula
address the Turks as you have more tnan
once addressed me; aud after freely ihauis


my in words of "learned strength ana thuh-
uerlnr sound" conclude with the express
,ons move quoted, viz:"I haze lost no time
in directing you TO torbear ..fnrfher mfer-
course auth this govcrnMcnf.


but am not a Turk, nor are you Prince
| am a plain native of Virginia, and an a.
'Ionted citizen of Tennessee. am an officer
nj The United States, of which Georgia IS an
honmnrcd and an honorable member-my
i. wtul nublic duties have called me into TINS
site: where, Welding due homage TO ner
I,ys and those of the United States, hnd
myself possessed of ample privileges winch
4 pend not upon the whim orcaprice OF any
Observation-Disclosures, not even the Governor! Win
whose correspondence ! confess TO you' SIT
have not been SO much delighted OF i'i-
structed as individually, to wish tor its
contrnuance. But however, unprohtao!e
Your correspondence may be to me ind'via-
ually, vet the respect due 10 .'e o.iee yo'
fiji. ILL., viii not permit me to yield to the non
intsrcourse nrt' which You have without author
;,r ,,.esnued 70 ..direct." On the contrary
s,y y r ! have the right AS citizen, and the
additional right as public t1nct,onary' to
adar, IS you: and should my Official duty re-
ouire that should at any time address the