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History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900

Shonnard, Frederic, and W.W. Spooner. History of Westchester County, New York, from its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900. New York: The New York History Company, 1900. 359 words

The answer your Excellency was pleased to send me was, that 1 need not give myself any trouble about that affair, that you would neither receive a visit nor any message from me, that you would neither rely upon my integrity nor depend on at all fit to be trusted my judgment, that you thought me a person notever since your coming with anv concerns relating to the king, that person and as your to as both you treated to the o-overnment I had impertinence; and rudeness, slight, with tive representa king's the Deanything further of me." desire to hear or see charges that you did not against and intimations made the various fending himself that " if judges can be so bv the'oovernor, he reminds his excellency intimidated as not to dare to give any opinion but what is pleasing to a governor and agreeable to his private views," the people of suffer in forthe province must In relation to tune or even life. the accusation of inattention or want of politeness, and other personal matters, he adds these pointed words: " If a bow awkwardly made, or anything of that some defect in ceremoor kind, nial in addressing yon, has occasioned that remark, I beg it may , be attributed to want of courtly : education, or to anything else rather than to want of respect to As his Majesty's representative. to my integrity, I have given you no occasion to call it in question. I have been in office almost My hands were twenty years. power never soiled with a bribe, nor am I conscious to myself that of favor in partial be to me induce to able or poverty hath been from either of them; and as I have no reason to expect any favor test of the you so I am neither afraid nor ashamed to stand the I have served strictest inquiry you can make concerning my conduct. according to the best of my knowlthe public faithfully anddo honestly, Cosby, appeal to it for my justification. edge ;uld T dare and by handing to office his of Morris deprived now , ceremony without