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INTRODUCTION.
XI
official and important documents upon which I have founded
my reasoning. The reader will, therefore, not be astonished
to find that two writers, who have been contending in a cause
to which in other respects they were equally strangers, and
have been carrying on their respective attacks and defences
with arguments based upon law and history, have never-
theless arrived at diametrically opposite conclusions. Far
be from me the intention to accuse my adversary of par-
tiality, and still less of having designedly falsified the truth.
The inadequacy of the materials which he had at his dis-
posal, did not permit him, I repeat it, to obtain better results,
even though he had undertaken a stricter investigation, and
rejected whatever was not derived from authentic sources.
XI
official and important documents upon which I have founded
my reasoning. The reader will, therefore, not be astonished
to find that two writers, who have been contending in a cause
to which in other respects they were equally strangers, and
have been carrying on their respective attacks and defences
with arguments based upon law and history, have never-
theless arrived at diametrically opposite conclusions. Far
be from me the intention to accuse my adversary of par-
tiality, and still less of having designedly falsified the truth.
The inadequacy of the materials which he had at his dis-
posal, did not permit him, I repeat it, to obtain better results,
even though he had undertaken a stricter investigation, and
rejected whatever was not derived from authentic sources.