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| be to fully vindicate myself from the accusa- 
nst me, this shall be accomplished, it 
may then be Mr. D.’s turn to act on the defensive.” I apprehend that 
your readers will be better able to judge in relation to Mr. D.’s having 
“misused confidence,’ or, in my language, laid himself open to the charge 
of having done so, when the charge shall have been made.by me, and met 
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by Mr. D. 
On p. 131, Mr. D. professes to clear himself from my charge of dis- 
courtesy in having attacked me without notice or remonstrance at my 
presumed injustice towards him, by stating, that after waiting ten months 
ate fe ie : 
this, to Mr. D.’s mind, suspicious silence on my part. en the Expe- 
dition returned to our shores, I was stationed at Washington, where, soon 
afterward, I rejoiced to meet with Dr. Pickering and Mr. Rich. Almost 
my first inquiry was for Mr. Dana. ‘They could not inform me where he 
could be addressed, but presumed that with all the others, he would soon 
be in the city. Mr. Drayton soon after came on, but he was also ignorant 
t. To each of these gentlemen I gave a copy 
of my article. Had Mr. Dana visited Washington as was expected, I 
should have hastened to place one in his hands also, with a full ae 
distributed. I gave myself no farther trouble at that time, being by 
the judge advocate that Mr. Dana would, with all the other members of th 
corps, be present at the approaching court-martial in New ; and 
there I had no doubt of meeting him. In this I was disappointed, as Mr. 
Dana did not attend the trial. I heard, however, that he had been at 
New Haven, on a visit to the Editors of this Journal, and presuming that 
he had there seen the article in question, as I had transmitted them a copy, 
I thought no more o m gi D 
when we met. In the latter part of t ensuing August, or early part of 
hess to the motives which too often lead men to turn a cold shoulder to 
those whom they were once glad to call friends. I was in disfavor with 
