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«U'<. letter • Mr. Russell himself had furnUhed it, to he reported 

 „ nsw r to fhe call. Cunos.ty had been POt-'L^, '" ".Xl 

 nes< for a sight of it. and of that eagerness M^- F'"*'' ''f *f„ 

 E^^ited no unitellig.ble share If his only o^ct-s o bum 

 information ^.seful to him, w.th reference to f f, ^"'"r^*'" f j„ 



l^e^'tadtil^e; Tef; dl^i^orif hi td llXl ^J 



wo'uld tve been candid to avow it then, and not '« ^-v- ^^^^^''^ 



INIr. Floyd says he will take no part ,n the ""'■'°^ *[^y, ,^' " "jj" 



Mr Russell and me. 1 should have had more reason '<> "'""^ »!;• 



comes forward in this controversy substantially •»« «» J"*' / 

 m. Russell, and as a pretext for .t , •>« charges me uhn ^»e_r_ 

 tion which I never made, that he may take ' "' P"'°j^,.;„^e. I 

 sive to himself, and attack me under a colour ot f ' "f'f Sf^ ^ 

 never gave cause of offence to Mr. Floyd, and .f m t^e Ghen 

 ra;:rs L h. profound researches '^'-f J :,;« " ^^henJ L 

 .issippi river, or the discussion of the M,^^' ''PP' ' ■ ,t ^^ 



could not find any thing that he wanted ^.^,^^^ 



Mr Flovd declares that he will not e ther "> P"""^ " ■^- f 

 refra n froL commenting upon the pubUc conduct -^ P -° ,;] 

 any public man,^i^o may be thought »^ "^»> '.'^ "^^^''^Ten ..olitical 

 to Office. He adds that his °PP7''7„Jtherwer which gentle- 

 and directed by the ideas he entermns "f the power constitution 

 men may think the imelves entitled to exeretse, ""-IfJ '^\<='i" P, ,, 

 ^/rilnited States. If, by th^- S-eral expre. . -^^^M^^^^ ^^7^. 



means any special ■'.^f^'*""^" "": .J'^^^rct and oinnions, whe- 

 tion to his commenting upon >"/ P^^ /i^X^^^ ",l„,e,f to that ex- 

 ther in public or private while hf "''' ^""^nf '.^^^^ 1 am 



act verify, of which he has so sound a theoretic coi? ^.^^^ ^.^^ 

 oerfectlv w ingeven that he shouia take ii.s Mi,<i*sippi at 



L the te'^t for a° comment upon the d'-"^^'™; ^^ t^ / may \hink 

 Ghent. But if he comments upon *« P°wer h^ the United 

 myself entitled to exercne ""ff '^^y„f„fif'; 1 shall only ask 

 Stktes, from the ideas "hjch « j'er ams o^^ t^ ^ ^^^^ ^^^^ 



the hearers to examine well the «»"'<:'' «»^-^ , j^^ks upon the 

 and his '-!-%- f«-7srat::s co ai'ii: expressed Jiaii.s of 

 ro^r^clnotaVp'S opposite opinion. . hold no oppo.- 



