known my feelings to you. I do not write this with the intention of insulting you or of bearing down upon you or with a desire to take any advantage of you or with the intention of ever laying one straw in your way, detrimental to your character or influence, or to suffer any thing whatever that has taken place, which is within my observati[o]n, or that <has> come to my knowleidge to go abroad, betraying any confidence that has ever been placed in me but I do assure you most sincerly that what I have said I verily beleive. & this is the reason why I have said it, that you may know the real convictions of my heart. not be[c]ause I have any malice or hatred, neither would I injure one hair of your head, and I will assure you that these convictions are attended with the deepest sorrow & remorse. I wish to God it were not so, & that I could get rid of the achings of my heart on that subject, and I now notify you, that unless something should take place to restore my mind to its former confidence in you, by some acknowledgmets on your part. or some explanations, that shall do away my Jealousies, I must as a conscientius man publish my withdrawal of your my fellowship from you, to the , thr[o]ugh the medium of the times & Seasons, and demand of the a hearing concerning your case; that if, on conviction of Justifiable grou[n]ds, they will [p. [3]]