"Differing with you as I do in political sentiments, and having no
other connection with public affairs than what pertains to every
citizen, I desire nevertheless to express to you, what I believe
to be the general feeling among all classes of reflecting minds
here, an admiration for the dignified and gentlemanly bearing with
which you have gone through the contest and rebuked the ruffian
onslaught,--and to say, moreover, that we should, I have no doubt,
all unite, from all sides, as one man, in sending you back to the
Senate, should the maniac threats of expulsion by any possibility
be carried into effect."
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