MY DEAR SIR,—Colonel
King has just mentioned to me (and I am sorry he did not do so before we left
the Senate) that you felt yourself aggrieved by my remarks on Thursday last,
and thought they were calculated to injure you. I can assure you that you are
among the last of living men whom I would desire to injure.
It is not too late
yet to suppress all these remarks, except my disclaimer of the doctrine imputed
to me in the Kentucky pamphlet. The debate will not be published in the Globe
until to-morrow evening; and I am not only willing, but I am anxious, that it
shall never appear. If this be your wish, please to call and see me this
evening, and we can go to Rives and arrange the whole matter. I live at Mrs.
Miller's,—it is almost on your way,—on F Street, where Barnard lived last
session. Yours sincerely,
SOURCE: Ann Mary
Butler Crittenden Coleman, Editor, The Life of John J. Crittenden: With
Selections from His Correspondence and Speeches, Vol. 2, p. 38
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