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LETTER GIVING SKETCH OF FREDERICK BATES.9
was Secretary, and although personally, an unexceptionable gentleman, he was a relative of Col. Burr, and, for that reason, was thought at Washington, to be an unsafe man. My brother felt a strong repugnance, on a point of feeling and delicacy to supersede Dr. Browne, but he was told by both the President and Secretary of State, that Dr. B. 's removal was resolved upon, and that they must have a man of Louisiana, at that juncture, above all suspicions of undue bias.
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