If you can successfully defend your conduct
against public censure, although I may re
gret that I have caused that conduct to have
I'f e" suspected, I shall nevertheless be grat
I f led Ot Vmir rtlllinl uin Ipnni IiI:iiii. Vo
"ie1 at y"r exculpation from blame. Yet
you must be informed, though the inform
j tion should reach you long after every other
c"'''.''.' ,s .aware "r.",e filc, ibM P,loIic
mm" "as lor j cars been agitated in relation
,rt Very l"at,t'r w"ich cin to have
10 s,,l,"ie1 your ears by the suddenness of
"'"'''.'a'-y""' ignorance was altogether
exclusive. A petition signed by over 1-100
l)er,on? waj presented to the Legislature
""J" ix years since, complaining of yotir-
c 1 a,non!? others and yet you allect sur-
prise that complaints of your conduct exist.
Why sir, many of the bondholders in Xcw
York, so notorious were these complaints,
were opposed to your being appointed to the
place you now hold; mid even exacted a
promise (as they have informed me,) that
you should not be appointed. Therefore,
you may see if you will, that these rom-
phints have not originated with me, and that
all I have
none in the premises has been
done in the performance of what I conscien
tiously believed to be a public duty.
