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Raleigh 12th Oct. 1865

My dear sir
Gov Swain reached
here last night and handed me
this morning your & Judge
Ruffins pardons which I
now inclose you availing
myself of the opportunity
afforded by Maria
[mark?] of doing [illegible] -

I congratulate you on
getting through without
being subjected to all the
annoyances which have
worried me not a little
You have no doubt seen
the last attack made on
D.H. and myself in the Standard
of yesterday - we have
replied in a card which
wiil appear in the Sentinel