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to feel sore at the expression of any
abstract opinions, and the opinions in
the Rider were merely abstract, not personal.
By the bye since these transactions took
place it has occurred to me that Stawell
might have been sore at the Grand Jury
quotation from Sir J. Dowling, but my
object was not to refer to the past
at that date, but the future, when the
political feelings of a ministry might
be supposed more and more to
influence their public conduct.

Let me say that your view of
Haines' note in which he "wished to
look upon the dispute as fully and
amicably adjusted" quite agrees
with mine as to his desire to obscure
or forget the facts, but I think he
and his colleagues would have had
the right had I been so cutting, to feel
the contempt for me which I now feel
for them. If their imputations were
true, I was unworthy of any public office,
if false, they were unworthy of any public office
or respect, it seems to me.