Excerpt from Rhode Island Politics and Journalism: A Letter From Thomas Davis, to Hon. Henry B. Anthony, U. S. Senator Hon. Henry B. Anthony, Sir: I offer no special apology for addressing you at this time. The relation existing between us gives me a right to choose my own time, or any time that may suit my purpose and not be offensive to good taste, or inconsistent with a proper regard for public opinion. To you, Senator Anthony, I owe nothing politically. I have received nought but wrong and injustice at your hands. I say on my part, unprovoked and unmerited; unless it be a provocation to defend one's character as a public man, against imputations which if verified, ought to consign me to more than political obscurity. I have rested for some years under accusations and imputations foul and false, cast upon me by you during the canvas of 1859. Guiltless I was of what you then charged me with: nay, to the extent of my ability I made an earnest effort to hold prominently before the public intellect and conscience the principles and issues of the National Republican Party and to preserve in the State, its organization intact. I was the candidate for Congress of the National Republican party, receiving the nomination only as I have received all the nominations that were ever tendered to me, without intrigue or solicitation. I was by every consideration of justice and honor and sound party policy entitled to your support and the hospitality of the Providence Journal, then supposed to be the organ of the Republican Party. And now, after a lapse of five years, you renew and reiterate those charges with a confidence which might lead those who do not know you to suppose that you believe what you assert in your Organ with so much flippancy and assurance. You concede to me the quality of frankness; and I am aware of exercising, on one occasion, a plainness of speech which was in some measure due to your personal presence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.