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objection on his fact for the want of sufficient notice ought not to prevail Beady? which it appears he has been furnished with a full copy of all my testimony. And here I will venture to predict that if such objections continue to receive attention, the decision of the case will be delayed to the end of his existence. This observation is justified by my personal knowledge of the Man, and is fortified by a recent publication under his signature. Besides, I have always understood that the arguing was instituted for the purpose of satisfying the mind of the President, whether or not any criminally was attached to my conduct in regard to the Africans, and under the view of the case I confess, I cannot perceive how the truth is to be affected, by the length or shortness of Notice, if it were taken over again I am satisfied the facts would still be the same and if Gov Clark thinks differently, he can process. I shall not attempt to impede his progress. But the truth is, that is every instance, the testimony when taken was so contrary to his hopes that he was driven is despair to his usual resort of quibbling about unimportant forms, for the purpose of avoiding or delaying the ultimate decision. Such also has been his conduct in every instance (as in the Case of Col. Enverin?) where he apprehended the testimony of the witness would be in my favor. he either wished to entrap them by drawing from