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same intimation had been given to me by others, but that I had paid no attention to it. That if an impression prevailed that I supported you without regard to the evidence offered against you, it was wholly erroneous. I stated to Genl Bell, that in 1812, when you censured the conduct of Colo. now Genl Newman, under circumstances that did not appear to me to justify it, I did not hesitate to state my impressions to you, and give to Genl Newman a fair and support, without however impugning your motives. That a sense of justice would impel to act in the same manner in similar cases, but that no one must expect me to become the enemy of his enemy, because in a particular case I believed that enemy had done him injustice. That as in the first case, stated, I had pressured the unclear step of both parties, I did not intend to make any sacrifice