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much good sense in this reasoning that it is difficult to imagine any human Being could have acted contrary to it, particularly when politeness and moderation were only presented against every violent and insulting act; Nevertheless strange as it is, the Acts complained of have been committed, in opposition to great benevolence, and unassuming manners on my part, which nothing founded in truth can any way controvert; Yet I lament at feeling it necessary on account of the remoteness of my situation, to give the correspondence which has been between Captain Short and myself, all of which might have been prevented by a civil deportment in him; but he has studiously avoided every personal communication and troubled me with Letters and Messages.
In some of these Letters while his Pen was expressing something like civility