Excerpt from What Is the Matter?: A Political Address as Delivered in Masonic Hall, October 28th, 1838 My engagement with the lessee of this building is now closed. I have adhei'ed pertinaciously to the precise limit of that engagement, in occupying a build ing rented to me without one objection being made at the time of my own personal application for its use. This application was made on my part in perfect singleness of heart; without one motive calculated to give rational cause of offense to any one. These motives I ...
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Excerpt from What Is the Matter?: A Political Address as Delivered in Masonic Hall, October 28th, 1838 My engagement with the lessee of this building is now closed. I have adhei'ed pertinaciously to the precise limit of that engagement, in occupying a build ing rented to me without one objection being made at the time of my own personal application for its use. This application was made on my part in perfect singleness of heart; without one motive calculated to give rational cause of offense to any one. These motives I shall, with my usual frankness, explain; in the View of removing all those trifling, but perhaps irritating misconceptions Which, as I have been informed at least by a gentleman intimately associated in his private relations with ih fluential members of the Whig Partyn-if they did not exactly inspire, were employed by a few misguided in dividuals as a means to excite and foment, 'that opposi tion, carried out to brutal violence, with which myself and the Public have been assailed within these walls. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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