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The defection of old General Irwin's friends, and of the Richmond members, at the last general assembly, seems to warrant the expectation that something may yet be done by a present and conciliatory course of conduct. I shall see some of the persons about Augusta next Week, and endeavor to ascertain what can be effected. When surrounded by difficulties, neither prudence or morality forbids the exercise of a sound discretion in the choice of evils. Taking it for granted, that the defection must have proceeded in some degree, from disgust, at being constantly required to support unsuccessfully the pretensions of a single individual, to the absolute exclusion of their own Pretensions, it does not appear to be difficult to widen the breach which that defection has produced, and to render it irreconcileable by placing the most prominent character of it in direct opposition to him. The