Resuming, I said, "But, Mr.Winters, you are greatly excited.

Besides, I see you are laboring under a total misapprehension.

It is your duty not to inflame but to calm yourself.

I am prepared to show you, if you will only point out the article that you allude to, that you regard as 'charges' what no calm and logical mind has any right to regard as such.
Show me the charges, and I will try, at all events; and if it becomes plain that no charges have been preferred, then plainly there can be nothing to retract, and no one could rightly urge you to demand a retraction.

You should beware of making so serious a mistake, for however honest a man may be, every one is liable to misapprehend.
Besides you assume that I am the author of some certain article which you have not pointed out.