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consideration, and in very high places no want of
desire to find ground had such been to be found
not merely for reductions but for annihilation — and
at the end of the nine years what is the result?
— the result is — not any subtraction from the number
originally agreed upon, but a multiplication of it.

In the character of a testimonial, declaring that
whatsoever confidence had four years before this been
reposed in me and my plan was at this time doubled,
a testimonial not the less valuable in effect for not being such in
form, — this letter is of no small value to me.

True it is that to this multiplication succeeded
and at no very long interval an operation of the opposite
kind, viz. division: — division of the 2000 by 4; quotient 500:
— hesitation between this number, and number 0.

Three fourths thus struck off? one half from the
number originally agreed on, — three fourths from the number
indicated by second and maturer thoughts? — struck off!
and for what reason?

To extract a compleat answer to this question, if it
were the pleasure of the Committee, would I suppose,
be within the competence of the Committee. All
that I shall presume to say is — what to the present
purpose it seems necessary for me to say — viz. that
any abatement of confidence, either in the plan
itself or in the author of it, would (I think) not be
found to be in the number.

Of the several questions that lie before me that
which

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Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	372	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f13
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks
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Notes public	letter 2110, vol. 8	ID Number	38989
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