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now in Georgia taken by Mr. McIntosh, I do most positively deny. but Sir, I cannot find words of sufficient strength to convey the indignity I feel, at the conduct of Colonel Brearley who has dared to utter such an abominable untruth, when he confirmed to you a report, that thirty negroes had been run from the Agency on the night of Mr. McIntoshes arrival. The misrepresentations which have been circulated upon the subject of those negroes induced me a short time since to communicate a short statement of the facts to the Gov'r of Georgia, which was published in the Milledgeville news papers; after which I little expected to have heard them again reiterate and particularly that Colonel Brearley should be the author & fabricator, who had been informed by me personally of the real situation of those negroes and that I had caused them to be detained & had reported them to the Govern't. that communication however was I perceive some days subsequent to the date of your letters to the Secretary of War. The certificate given by me a copy of which you saw in possession of Colonel Brearley, was given