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Mr. Pearce, | have endeavored to cover
that ground and remain
Sir, with respect,
q Your ob't. ser'vt.,
T.. j. MALLETT.
IL. B. Cranston 10 Dutes J. Pearce, No. 8.
NEWPORT, Saturday, Oct. &c, 1888.
DurEr J. PEARCE, Esq.
Su'-You have had the tim

since tlro morning of Tuesday last, in
winch to make up your mind, whether
It were best ior you To uvOw the truth OF
the fact OF your having written letters Ia
Wasnington, Containing false accusa-
tons against me, and particularly let
ter to Amos Kendall, dated The illh u
October, inst. accusing me ''oi being oj
that party aehieh faH Of impeoching he
President, and that Imahe nag cEce Me
rendezvous ofMat party" 1t is apparent,
therefore, that finding equiyocalon would
not serve your purpose, you have come
to the conclusion that your safest course
is, to avoid making any explicit avowal
of your conduct. In the rncun time,
however, you have been busy in the
streets, endcavoring to persuade people
that it is all Il mistake, and that you real
I ~ have never written any thing unfavor-
able to me. You are troubling Yourself
also, to find other causes for my removal
from office, and it would indeed be strange
if u man, whose standing ard character
are SO low as your own are known to
have been for Il long time, with all par
ties at " ashington, could have any inAu.
ence with respectable men.
| have made no complaint to you Of
my removal from onice. The charge
against you is, that without provocation,
and while you keh On the mask Of
friendship towards me, you have inla-
mously belied and slandelcd ME, for the
purpose of gaining few
votes for yourself. You have given as
to many PERSONS, that you had
kept copy Of your letter to Amos Ken
dali, aud would shew it to them but
have heard Of no one who has yet had IL
sight Of it. l called upon you, myself,
for n copy of SO much OF that letter as
related to me.-But you havo not fur
nished it, well knowing, that if y'u gave
a true one, it would convict you Of the 4
SANDER imputed to you: and it Il false
one, it would lead to your conviction OF |,
the crime Of additional lalsehoods. You
protested, (verbally) to my friend, Mr.
Rug les, who handed my letter to you,
that you had never written any thing to
my prejudice; that you had always been
4 great friend to ne, and now regretted
my removal as much as any one and
CT JOu hu'O S'aoSu my Cdil upoi YOU
or an explicit avowul, or denial, in wri-
ing, of the charges against you. If you
nad been innocent, you would not have
lesi.ated moment in making that re-
ply, and you would have FASTENED to
nave given me an open letter to Amos
Kendall, requesting him to give Me an
exact copy Of your letter to him, So far
Is | was implicated in it. 1t is not my
Intention, III this letter, 20 repeat the do.
nand already twice made upon you.-
My sole purpose now is, to tell you, that
hold your conduct as amounting to u
ull confession Of your guilt. | shall take
care that all those at Washington, to
whom your letters have been addressed,
shall have copies Of this correspondence.
This l shall do for their future security,
md that Of the public, as well IS in JUS
ice to myself beng fully persuaded
hat they will give 10 countenance to u
nan, who, having constituted himself a
ool, without ANY encouragement from
hem, has, in his first efforts daringly at
empted, by false representations, to de-
;eive and impose even upon those whose
,atronage he was seeking to obtain.
am, with due respect,
II. Is. CRANSTON.