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only misstated actual facts, but most unwarrantably misrepresented the — 
language of my defence, in no as I have just right nfer, to give 
greater force to his assertions, and has also brought several new issues be- 
fore the public, besides maoeiedia; either by direct charge or by implica- 
tion, ery ng my honor ~— veracity, I feel constrained by a regard for 
these, which are as dear to me as Mr. Dana’s are to him, reluctanily to 
leat | again upon your sage in a matter now strictly personal between us. 
doing this I shall be as brief as consistent with a clear presentation 
of the facts, and avoid any thing like the “ vituperative language,” which 
Mr. Dana by i insinuation intimates I. have been guilt 
I will proceed therefore to review Mr. D.’s statements in the order of 
their eee at least such of them as require any notice at this time. — 
On remarks, “The public have cause for regret that Mr. C. di 
not bring Setesdd at once the abstract of his journal sent home from Syd- 
ney, which is said to contain the views in dispute, as ma any words might 
possibly have been saved, if the facts are as stated ; and it would have ~ 
‘ 
The object of Mr. Di in oth plausible sentence is too obvious to require 
comment, but it is based wholly upon a gratuitous assumption © 
ture of the documents in question. There never was any ‘ abstract’ of my 
raat sent home from Sydney, nor have I ever intimated that such was 
consequently, however the public may regret it 
pede ead have been brought forward. My statement, p. 380, Vol. xy, 
Jour., is as follows. “I transmitted by sure hand, to some friends in Bos- 
n, duplicate minutes of the most important of my elnayestings from the 
time of our leaving the United States to our arrival at Upolu, in the Sa- 
moan group.” Even had these ‘minutes’ been ted ik t,’ it 
dearest tome. Such abstract as could be made, had in fact ene Ana 
“brought forward,’ in the very article’ which has given rise s disc 
sion; and it will bei in evidence of its authenticity that I shall pene to c 
Asnciatios the documents from which it was com I know not! 
what way I could have acted more fairly and citeee than I on 
done in this matter 
On same page (130) he continues, “Mr. Couthouy complairts of un- 
fairness in my not addressing him before making the charge = ic, and 
dwells upon the intimacy between us at sea, in order to bring o n bold- 
er colors, this ‘ misused confidence.’” I unqualifiedly deny ae eet 
I have in no part of my reply, charged Mr. D. vy vith having ‘‘ misused con- 
fidence” in the matter at isstle, Again, p. 135, “ My iseape i proba- 
bly satisfied that I have not ‘ misused confidence. >” — Allow t 
the remark on pp. 337-388, Vol. xiv, in my reply, which is ths a 
ed. “TI may hereafter take occasion to — that he (Mr. D.) bas avail- 
ed himself of them (my notes) in a manner that leaves him, to say the 
least, equally open with myself to the “a of having misused 
