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private communication and correspondence with me. I was the more impressed with the propriety of this unclear, by the lying stories of Newman & Cuthbert circulated soon after you left Georgia on your last visit. Another reason of my silence has been, my engagements in preparing an opposition of the case of the africans for the public eye; and as it is more than probable that many facts therein stated will be charged to communications from you, I have therefore desired to keep you and my self free to dispell any such charges or insinuations. My publication has been delayed much beyond any expectation; but we cannot command health, and for the last summer, and indeed until the present moment mine has been, and is still dreadfully impaired. It is my wish, before promulgating my pamphlet, to send you a copy of it for your perusal and inspection; and in case you shall discover any thing contained in it, which may have a tendency to operate against you with the President, or any other person with whom it would be desirable to have a good understanding, and you will be so kind as to point it out, I will suppress it; for there is no consideration on earth which can induce me to injure a