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to the person who had given bond to take the negroes mentioned in that certificate out the U States. A copy of that certificate is on the files of this office, and is considered by me a public document. And so far from the negroes having been concealed, it is a fact which can be attested by hundreds, that a proportion of them were employed daily in the public yard grinding corn their own subsistence, and that some few of the ablest of the men were employed at some labor on the Plantation daily. Nay, that I distributed some few articles of clothing among them, and administered medicine to the sick, and a variety of acts of this sort, which in the view of Colonel Brearley and some others who were disposed to pervert every act of mine however innocent or praiseworthy to suit their own purposes as criminal but Sir I appeal to your own feelings, if acts of this kind performed from mere feelings of humanity towards a naked and half starved set of unfortunate beings are to be taken as