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It was not until the beginning of this month that I
received your very friendly letter of dated the 20th of March last.
It happened to fall into hands that were none of my friends.
I expected that the one word in the reccommendation of February
last would be found fault with, by some of the Council but as
it was an affair in which I was mentioned I did not care to
propose corrections, and some of the court was seemingly in as
warm a temper as I suppose some of the members of the executive
although for a contrary reason. As to myself I am perfectly
easy; if I was an ambitious aspiring man, I surely would not
think it an honor to be a County Justice of the Peace espe-
cially to be associated with weak and ill-meaning men, characters
that is a burlisque upon the most inferiour kind of judiciary
bodys- Mayor Mitchel is a Mansfield to some that now
sits on the Bench in Washington.
As to my procuring a Certificate from Wm. Edmiston, I shall never
do it, he is too mifleing a character, to establish any mans
reputation, being grossly ignorant; but meanly lead and
dictated to by Gol. Mussell, the letter the Executive received
is noy this letter writer's, but Mr. Mussells, for Edminton can neither
write nor read, at least intelligibly. - I have infinitly a prefer-
able means to justify myself, than such Certificates, that is
the approbation of my own conscience and the almost unani-
mous suffrages of my County-men to a must something
more important and honorable than being a member of an in-
ferior judiciary.
The honbl Bolling Starke Esq.