May 27th, 1846.
SIR,
I am surprised to find that the expressions which displease you most in
my letter of the 26th instant, are those which I transcribed _verbatim_
from one which you volunteered to write to me in 1837,[C] and of which I
enclose a copy. You _then_ warmly approved of those very arrangements
which you _now_ so violently condemn.
I call upon you to publish the enclosed along with the observations
which you are to send me on Monday next, in order that all unprejudiced
and sincere persons may judge what reliance is to be placed on the
opinions and assertions of a man endowed with so flexible a judgment,
and so treacherous a memory.