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to prove that I ever had any interest or concern directly or indirectly, or ever aided, advised, or consulted any one who had, in the purchase and introduction of those Negroes; or that I had any knowledge of their intended introduction until they were brought to the Agency. On the contrary, I am able to prove that I had not. but the malice of these people has no bounds. The cause of Clark, you know; and that of others has been aided? by my Official Situation. There are always hanging about + belonging to the Army, certain unclear, to whom my presence has been a great eye sore. I have on former occasions mentioned to you the general unclear in regard to the Affairs of the Agency, owing no doubt, to the low state of Col. Gawkin's health for the last year of his life, and the little attention pain to them between that period and that