Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1804-12-28

: trial OF Fritz court, knowing the
law oftreaso clearly defined, and
that the press Of producing English
authorities, D "a have no other effect
than to Prccrastinate the trial, aud per.
pick the jury, confined the council for
the prisoner to I've fact; reserving il TO
the court te inform the jury, what the
law was, in that particular case. The
", council therefore, finding themselves
i aeharred from impressing the Jury with
fafse constructions or psrplexing them
With a multiplicity of authoritiss, re
,specting the law, and having not a word
to say in extcnuation of the fact, rece-
dsd from the trial; and lef, their client
TO the good sense, and integrity Of the
jury. What possible advantage could
have resnltedto Fries, ifhis council had
been permitted to Iexpatiate, in their
plcadings upon the law, a. well as the
fact : nothing more, than few hours
suspension OF the awful sentence; his
crime was notorious, and the evidence
clear and therefore the final result
would have been the same. = - g
With respect to Calender, the libel
for which he was indicted, was notofi.
GUS, and pointed and universally
known, BY those, who did not wish to
believe otherwise, to be false, seandalous
and malicious. The indictment con-
tanned several counts, not one of which,
twas in his power TO prove the truth of,
by any evidence in the United States /;
the .pretenee therefore Of summarizing a
witness from Boston. as well as the pre-
siden. Of the United States himself, y
gsinst whom the libel was most pointed,
was an insult to the government, and
could answer no earthly purpose, but to
protraet the trialtiA Mr.. Jefferson came
into Office. which, at that time. bis friends
counted certainly upon; and ,hepa No
Ii prossqui, as in The case Of Duane,
would have put a stop to ali further pro-
eeedings. leave it rs question to be
Determined BY the civilians, whether the
aather Of that abominable work, for
! which, in any country butthis, he wo1ld
have lost his ears--or a certain great
man, who is said to have advanced one
hundred dollars TO aid the publication,
be entitled to tie greatestshare Of guilt
The honorable senate will do well to
consider. that MIR. Chase is fellow Gle
rizen, who IS brought beforethenunder
arharge Of high crimes snd misdsmean-
ora, and on whom they are 70 sit in
Judgment and if in supporting the
honour and happiness Of his country, by
endeavouriug to restrain that torren, Of
false, scandalous and malicious ealumnv
against the goSsrnnaent, that issusdirona
the icen,ious presses Of certain hireling
foreign seaPe galowses, his Seal may
have transported him little beyond the
limits of his duty and since, not the
least injustice has resulted from 1t, 70
any individual, such deviation could
only be considered as the effect of human
y frailty, and by no, means to merit, the
epithet of high crimes and misdemean.
ors, which shouldtender him obnoxious
to punishmsnt, which, to = man who
holds his reputation as dear as his life, Is
j littl. less, than capitaL-5=And although
there is no human tribunal to which they
arc accountable, for an act of tyranny
and oppression, under the sanction OF
legal authoriry-,hey are accountable to
God, who, as the Sacred Oracles inform
us, will Judge us BY our good or evil ac-
Mons, one 10 another. z1z--.r:...'.
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