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Excerpt from The Misrepresentations of a Member of the Hickory Club in Reply to Dr. Mayo's Sketches, Refuted As to the precise nature or extent of my want of popularity, I can not vouch, nor can any man safely aver for himself in such a matter. But I will recount a few circumstances, by which the reader may form some estimate of this equally gratuitous assertion, as, in every other instance, without even an attempt at proof. When I first came to Washington, some time after the inauguration of General Jackson. 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.