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is  to  show  that  in  spite  of  his


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132    HENBT  J.  RAYMOND  AND  THB  NEW  YORK  PRESS.
from  Louisiana  (Mr.  Sevier)  did  assert  what  he  knew,  and
what  was  instantly  proved  to  be  untrue.
"And  now,  sir,  I  come  to  the  second  point,  —  the  gist  of  the
resolution  before  the  convention.  The  gentleman  from  Geor-
gia (Mr.  Renneau)  has  laid  me  under  special  obligations  by
reading  the  whole  of  the  article  in  the  Daily  TimeSy  on  the
strength  of  which  it  is  proposed  to  expel  me  from  this  conven-
tion; I  am  the  more  anxious  to  express  to  him  my  thanks  for
this,  inasmuch  as  the  other  gentleman,  who  figured  in  this
affair  on  Saturday,  Mr.  Duncan,  of  Louisiana,  thought  proper
to  stop  short  of  this  act  of  simple  justice,  and  to  read  only  so
much  of  it  as  promised  to  answer  his  special  purpose.  I  de-
sire it  to  be  imderstood,  in  the  first  place,  that  this  matter  was
brought  to  the  notice  of  this  convention  through  the  agency  of
James  Watson  Webb,  partly  for  political  purposes,  and  partly
from  motives  of  personal  malignity  towards  me ;  so  base  and
dishonorable  in  their  grounds  that  he  dare  not  authorize  any
one  to  avow  them  upon  this  floor."

Mr.  Eenneau  —  "  The  despatch  was  not  addressed  to  Webb.
It  was  addressed  to  the  Hon.  Moses  H.  Grinnell.*'  [Cries  of
«  No  ! "  ''  No  ! "  —  "  To  the  care  of  James  Watson  Webb.*']

Mr.  Raymond — ''If  the  gentleman  from  Louisiana,  Mr.
