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this act of the State authority, the collector remonstrates. It is certainly charitable to suppose that all officers are actuated by correct motives in their official acts, at least until the contrary is made to appear. I am however apprehensive that the motives for the seizure in question were mingled with something of avarice. Upon the correctness of the course you have Pursued in point of law, it is impossible for me to determine. My confidence in the correctness of your motives has not for a single moment been impaired, altho' from the accounts recd. from different parts of the State, I fear the current of Public opinion is against you. The exertions of a few active men often give to public opinion a unclear which is extremely unjust, and at the same difficult to resist for the moment. I fear that you have been mistaken in