and was lord � the jury under the of a judge gave the it was a most unjust verdict based on a of the law which if sustained left the press no substantial liberty to rebuke wrong doing or and the of justice thus effected naturally led to still further and worse ten or a dozen years afterward mr j returned from a long residence abroad during which many of his novels had been written a man of talent � almost genius � he was aristocratic in feeling and in bearing altogether in his manners what a yankee once as winning ways to make people hate him to liis paternal acres near n y he was soon involved in a difficulty with the neighboring villagers who had long been accustomed in their excursions on the lake to land and make themselves at home for an hour or two on a long or point that ran down from his gi into tlie lake and whom he had now from so doing by legal force the newspaper of the village took up the case for the s urging that their from the point legal was and impelled by the spirit of the dog in the the editor for recovered a verdict and collected it by talking the money � through a s officer � from the editor s trunk by this time several had taken up the for the villagers and their editor and as mr had recently two self com i works on his s ways and manners entitled homeward bound and home as found some of these took the form of of those works one or more of them appeared in the and by james at least one other in tlie by william l stone while j to mr the of the evening journal and were doubt recollections of a busy ufe less from the pen of its founder and then editor mr weed them all bringing several actions to trial at tlie new county seat of county he had no luck against colonel because that gentleman he him and could never find a jury to send an editor to prison on his colonel was defended in chief by l afterward of the state an able and zealous advocate who threw his whole soul into his cases and who did by no means stand on the in one of his actions against mr weed he was more fortunate weed had not given it proper attention and when the case was called for trial at he was detained at home by sickness in his family and no one appeared for him so a verdict of was entered up against him by he was on hand a few hours afterward and tried to have the case but would not consent so weed had to pay the and costs himself he wrote a letter to the describing the whole and on that letter mc as for another and here let me say that weed was forced to pay some to and as costs in his various suits most weed was a profound admirer of s novels � an extravagant one in my judgment � and was so fond of quoting them that gravely affirmed that he evidently had never read but three authors � shakespeare scott and at a later day they were obliged to add to the list the that provoked s were intended by weed rather to the american that he was acting in quarrelling with his neighbors to their landing on the point with his by his harsh on their manners and with the press by his innumerable suits not a a of malice nor even of ill will impelled the which resented so and suits the first writ wherewith was honored by the author of the c me to answer at county on the first tuesday i believe in december and i obeyed it to the letter i employed no lawyers not that i needed any in its turn the case was called and opened in due by nephew of for the no witnesses were called for none were needed i admitted the publication and accepted the thereof so the questions to be tried were these was the by such publication if so to what amount was he when had concluded i said all that i deemed necessary for the defence and then up his own cause in a longer and rather stronger speech than s and the case was closed so far i felt quite at my ease but now the judge rose and made a harder more elaborate and speech against me than either or had done making three against one which i did not think quite fair he absolutely the jury on the presumption that tliey were inclined to give a verdict for the which he told them tliey were at liberty to do i had never till that day seen one of them and had never sou j it to effect any or understanding with them so i must say that the judge s charge seemed to me as unfair as possible the jury retired at its close and on seven of to make me pay s two for � one for s and two for nothing at all � or very nearly so they soon agreed to call it s and make it verdict which they did all the costs were aid i wa s just s out of pocket by that i have done better and worse in other cases but having been most al ly and successfully defended in several the that lie who j leads liis own cause has a fool for a i am satisfied that could i have found time in every case wherein i was for to attend in person and simply state the material facts to the jury i should have had less to pay than i have done there is always recollections of a busy ufe 