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As to publicity, not without pain to my own
feelings shall I be able to give it to this letter: but,
this I must and will do, unless compliance
with the above requests, or something which shall
shall be equivalent to it, be the result.
I have never been fond of having my teeth drawn,
but I have more than once submitted to the moment
any torment to aid myself of the enduring one.
On this occasion I reemploy an expedient
which on a former occasion I had the pleasure of thinking
was to you a not unpleasant one. If often
the date of this day seven clean days shall have elapsed,
and in that time no answer from you been
received by me, silence will be refusal, and I shall
hold myself as having your consent to exhibit copies of
this letter to the Public Opinion tribunal wherever it
sits.
[Confidential was a word superscribed on a letter
of yours which I have. You have found no reason
to repent of the risk, which whatever it was, you
on that occasion exposed yourself to. You thereby
confessed the having given exercise to a dispending
power: misprision thereof was an offence you thereby
called for at my hands. Had the so called constitution
been what it professes to be, I should not have
thus rendered myself your accomplice: but this
same constitution being as far as it is anything the
reverse of what it professes to be, left me at liberty
to be determined by the consideration of your
Identifier: | JB/011/336/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 11.
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