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Letter
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Toronto
17th Febry 1868
The
Hon’ble
John Beverley Robinson
Toronto
Dear
Sir,
It
has caused me much pain and annoyance to hear that some persons
in this City have not hesitated to assert that, during the
time you were Mayor, 1856, and at the time I offered to Don
property, you had received from me a pecuniary consideration
to obtain your influence towards effecting a sale of said
property. Having always held you Sir, in the highest estimation,
I feel it a duty I owe to you, as well as myself, to place
in your hands this most [illegible] declaration that such
assertions, by whomsoever made, are wholly and extremely false,
and without the slightest shadow of a foundation.No pecuniary
consideration was offered or given by me to you, or any other
member of the [Corperation] to obtain any influence towards
effecting a sale of the above named property. It was simply
a proposal on my part to sell, and an acceptance of my terms
by the Corporation, and the sale completed.
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without any purchased influence, or any other influence whatsoever
made use of by me, or by any other person on my behalf, and
this information the parties making this charge could easily
have obtained from me, had they felt inclined to know the
truth, before they determined on making statements that were
false.The only motive your [evidences] could have in making
these statements must be to injure you either privately or
politically, and should they again be repeated, you will now
hold in your hands my record that they are untrue, and if
required I will go with you and meet your [traducers] face
to face and tell them so.
I
remain Dear Sir
Yours very truly,
C[Scadding]
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[Note:
The following was added on the reverse]
I
heard that a Wilson had said I had been paid by Scadding for
my influence in getting city to buy Mr. Scadding’s farm.
Hence this letter –
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