Reply of J. Holt

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Excerpt from Reply of J. Holt: To Certain Calumnies of Jacob Thompson To the Editor: Sir: I thank you sincerely for the privilege courteously accorded me of vindicating myself, through your columns, from certain scurrilous charges made in a reported "interview, " by Jacob Thompson, Secretary of the Interior under President Buchanan's administration, and which appeared in the Philadelphia Press of the seventeenth ultimo, having been copied from the Memphis Appeal. It is with extreme reluctance that I venture to obtrude any private wrong I may have suffered on the notice of the public, well knowing that it cannot be reasonably expected to feel any special concern in my personal affairs, but while this is so, it is not to be forgotten that all honorable men love the truth, owe it a homage which they gladly pay, and, sympathize with its championship under all circumstances, as essentially the championship of their own cause and interests. It is this which emboldens me to ask a dispassionate consideration of the statements which I am about to submit. It is clear that this "interview, " though ostensibly for another object, was really sought to give Mr. Thompson an opportunity of vomiting forth upon me fetid calumnies, long since buried out of the sight of honest men. His rage, pent up for some twenty-two years, seems almost insanely joyful in the chance for slanderous vituperation at last afforded him. For this assault he has had no provocation whatever. I was doing nothing, saving nothing that could give him the slightest annoyance or disturbance. The sequel will show how I incurred the hatred which has evidently been stinging his bosom much more than my own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.