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now explained, but I am confident that, now it is explained, you
will appreciate my good intentions and motives in the entire mat-
ter. No claim whatever ever was, or now is advanced by me.

I simply throw myself upon your well known generosity and
sympathy for all who have tried to represent the deceased Senator
in his proper light.

The articles in the VINDICATOR which I had the honor to submit
to you were written honestly and sincerely, and were only the due
of one who did infinitely more for this State than any citizen ever
did for any state or country in the world, through all time. This
was the lesson I wished to convey, and trust I did convey, to my
readers. My only application to him, had I seen him, would not
have taken the form of a claim, but would have merely been made
to his known and undoubted sympathy for all purposes that are hon-
est and right. I believe that had I been able to approach the Sen-
ator during his life time, he would have extended to me the slight
assistance I desire as a voluntary act, and I have the fullest con-
fidence that you - now that the matter is fully explained - will
view the matter in the same sympathetic spirit.

My very object in sending you the extracts was to call your
attention to the continued efforts of my paper to give the Senator
only what was due to him as a Stateman and Philanthropist.