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 Thus calumniated and condemned for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office, Dr. Morgan felt keenly the indignities to which he had been subjected, but was supported in his trials by that consciousness of integrity and right conduct which alone can, under such circumstances, give solace. Notwithstanding the injustice which had been done him, he at this time thus wrote to a friend concerning his dismissal: "It is an act into which they were suddenly forced by a party whom political necessity obliged them to gratify. But such is my opinion of the integrity, and such my reliance on the honour of Congress, as to believe that when they are furnished with the materials for judging properly, they will be as ready to do me justice, as a part of them have been to listen to the malice and misrepresentations of my adversaries, and to show then magnanimity, by allowing that they have been capable of an error by their readiness to redress it. I have endeavoured to discharge my duty in what I undertook from principle, according to my degree of knowledge and capacity, with fidelity and diligence; and what I value more than knowledge or capacity alone, with humanity; from whence results the approbation of a good conscience which as my enemies, with all their power cannot give, so neither can they take away."