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as the law directs. This has recently been done by a gentleman, a copartner of the house with whom Colonel Morgan is, or has been concerned, for the greater part of them, and the ballance will be detained until Security is given to carry them out also, or the Government shall direct the steps to be taken with regard to them. From those facts you will perceive that your conclusions upon this subject have been entirely erronious; and if any speculators in negroes have been carrying them through the Nation, it has never come to my knowledge. Those I have mentioned are the only ones I have ever seen or heard of in this vicinity, and I am perfectly confident the parties interested in them, so far from exciting a spirit of opposition to you; or the service in which you are engaged, would promote it by every means in their power. I have been thus particular because it is my sincere desire, independent of all considerations of official duty, which however I hold to be imperative upon all officers engaged in the public service, to harmonize and promote by every means in their power the good of that service. And because I think your communication to the Governor will have a tendency to create a belief that my conduct and sentiments are such as I utterly abhor and disavow. I may also take the Liberty to add, that I perceive or think I do, a certain excitement of feeling under which you have