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1082. CALUMNY, Unnoticed.—

My rule
of life has been never to harass the public
with fendings and provings of personal slanders.
* * * I have ever trusted to the justice
and consideration of my fellow citizens,
and have no reason to repent it, or to change
my course.—
To Martin Van Buren. Washington ed. vii, 372. Ford ed., x, 315.
(M. 1824)