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my fellow citizens to recollect, that I am not the aggressor. My accuser has taken upon himself the contemptible character of an informer, and for the purpose of supporting himself in that character has resorted to means which a man of honor would detest and abhor; and the Dignity of the Executive has been prostituted for the base purpose of gratifying the most malignant passions. These observations are not the offspring of mere resentment and dislike of the object of them; they are plain truth's generally known and admitted. For myself I solemnly declare, that I envy no man, neither do I bear malice to any one; but, injuries attempted to inflicted upon me I will repell. I am very respectfully your obed. servant D.B.Mitchell

Mount Nebo 27th Ap'l 1821