him addressed to the Mayor of Savannah,
in answer to one received by him from that gentleman respecting a
seditious pamphlet written by a person of color in Boston, and
circulated by him in other parts of the United States.

Very respectfully, your obd't serv't,
WM. B. GILES.

The Hon. LINN BANKS, _Speaker of the House of Delegates_.

_To his Excellency, the Governor of Virginia_:

SIR: Perceiving that a pamphlet published in this city has been a
subject of animadversion and uneasiness in Virginia as well as in
Georgia, I have presumed that it might not be amiss to apprize
you of the sentiments and feelings of the city authorities in
this place respecting it, and for that purpose I beg leave to
send you a copy of my answer to a letter from the Mayor of
Savannah, addressed to me on that subject. You may be assured
that your good people cannot hold in more absolute detestation
the sentiments of the writer than do the people of this city, and
as I verily believe, the mass of the New England population. The
only difference is, that the insignificance of the writer, the
extravagance of his sanguinary fanaticism tending to disgust all
persons of common humanity with his object, and the very partial
circulation of this book, prevent the affair from being a subject
of excitement and hardly of serious attention.

I have reason to believe that the book is disapproved of by the
decent portion even of the free colored population in this place,
and it would be a cause of deep regret to me, and I believe to
all my well-disposed fellow-citizens, if a publication of this
character, and emanating from such a source, should be thought to
be countenanced by any of their number.

I have the honor to be respectfully, your obedient servant,
H. G. OTIS, _Mayor of the City of Boston_.

BOSTON, Feb. 10, 1830.

_To the Mayor of Savannah_:

SIR: Indisposition has prevented an earlier reply to your favor
of the 12th December. A few days before the receipt of it, the
_pamphlet_ had been put into my hands by one of the Board of
Aldermen of this city, who received it from an individual, it not
having been circulated here. I perused it carefully, in order to