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O had I the voice I would Raise it in thunder that it might roar from Maine so loud that it could not die away till it rumbled through every State in the union till it reached the southern extremity of the Continent & lost its sound in the deep waters of the Ocean, Yes Sir I would repeat the fact, that Johnathan Cilley of Maine a Member in the U. S. Congress lost his life a Martyr to the Liberty of Speech. And now what shall be said of his Murderers, of the one who challenged & shot him, the lips of Men will pronounce him a duelist & a Murder, he will be Judged by his God for the iniquity of his Crime, the aiders & abettors in the affair if they escape the punishment demanded by their fellow Men they will be a Reproachable  word upon earth & receive their just due in the world to come

[Last paragraphs written on folds of envelope. Mr. Henry W. Pifer[?], Camden, written crosswise on this part of letter. Also shows postmark of Augusta, Me.]