Dear Jep

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Dear John E. Pruvia,

 

Jep, I hope I find you well. I write to you from my study in Selm, which you have so deftly dodged visiting for far too long. 

 

Let me tell you, if you will, of Callahan. He has made a goal of asserting himself the designer of our Josephite platform. I assure you, good Jep, and I hope you share this with your conservative brothers; Callahan speaks only for himself. He has seen fit to sew dissent and portray our Josephite movement as whatever he sees fit, when it is still an infant being swaddled. Does he intend to drive a wedge between us, create a battleground where we should have a hall of voices? Perhaps not, perhaps he is a well-read narcissist, who would seek to make an argument out of self-righteousness. Perhaps he is misled, thinking he is doing right, thinking he is presenting one of the most important questions of our time that must be answered now, and not before we are prepared to speak on it.

 

Yet, our system is so terribly young, and we must wait to consider such important questions until we have been dressed out of our swaddling clothes. As we oppose each other, I am your opposition in the most loyal sense of the word. You and I, comrades in the theater of the Orenian ideal, within which we differ and so we debate, but not battle.

 

If there is a man alive who can detail the intentions of Joseph, it is I, his son. My father failed in many things, but I assure you that his ideals were not meant to be twisted to some inflammatory platform for some democratic legislature to be formed decades after his death.

 

As the Josephite platform and agenda develops, I will never consider the sponsorship of legalizing heresy. God gives us our Emperor, but does he then not also give us our Diet and our Courts?

 

With warm regards,

 

His Grace, Sir John d’Arkent, KCHE

Duke of Sunholdt, Baron of Selm

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

 

P.S. You are not a mess. But you might sweat on the debate floor!

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Arthur shrugs, “Again with the ad hominem attacks! If I am wrong, then break down my arguments and tell me why! You are a smart man, Duke Sunholdt, capable of political and philosophical debate, and one I hold no ill-will against. Let logic rule the day, let the Love of Knowledge show our Love of Man.”

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The Count of Rochefort smirks upon his reading of the open letter, his eyes piercing the quaintly put literature as he sat at his desk in the Helveti Estate.

 

“One can always trust the Lord of Selm to devour or disown. His own drunken lack of propriety aside these Josephites would do well to find a less inane mascot than he to represent their essays. The obese old fool can barely even conduct himself at court; never-mind in a debate. He should leave his slander to his own mind before his public slander gets him into trouble.”