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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 matter. 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 honest and right. I believe that had I been able to approach the Senator during his life time, he would have extended to me the slight assistance I desire as a voluntary act, and I have the fullest confidence 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.
