December 2nd, 1870.

Sir,—

In reply to yours received this morning I have simply to say that I shall expect you to be prepared to establish the accuracy of whatever I may impeach in the fifteen paragraphs, to each of which I have prefixed a mark. I cannot consent to limit my action any farther, as I may meet with new evidences damnatory of portions which I have not closely examined in those paragraphs. If you do not at once consent to this arrangement, I shall proceed through the medium of a newspaper to set some of your statements in their true light by means of chapter and verse, and you must then defend yourself in print, as indeed you will eventually do in any case. I enclose two stamps to pay for the tracts.