believe that Government can possibly give credence to the report made against me -- Every argument that sense and reason could dictate is against it -- Again I must lay stress upon these facts that in respect of my Employment on the West Coast it was unsought by me -- that it has nearly proved ruinous to me as the labors of many years hard work have been lost in consequence and I am now placed in a District where it is almost impossible for a professional man to obtain a living unless he is employed by the Government. I do not