Samuel Peters Jarvis

“ I cannot, in justice to myself, or to those implicated through my indiscretion, remain longer silent, and quietly witness this second attempt at imposition, without an effort to counteract its wicked and mischievous tendency, by what I declare on my honor, and what is known to eight or nine other persons concerned with me, to be a true, faithful, and ungarnished statement of every thing taht occurred, relating to that hasty and inconsiderate act. ”

“ But the Editor of the Colonial Advocate, having lately thought proper by representing in his usual style, statements relating to the injury committed upon his property, by myself and a few others, in language which could not have proceeded from any mind not callous to truth, and devoid of every honorable and virtuous feeling, with the sole view of exciting public indignation against myself and companions, and involving the Government in a suspicion created by his own malignant imagination, that they were the contrivers and instigators of the act he complains of ”

“ Indeed, it is more than probable that, he will now resort to this stratagem to blunt the effect which the following pages may have upon his Subscribers; for I think they will find themselves not a little at fault, when they reflect upon and compare the statements herein set forth, verified and strengthened as they are by a solemn affidavit of their trutlh, with the innumerable and extravagant falsehoods, fabricated and ushered into the world by their friend Mr. ”