The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-04-23

from one end of the continent to the other; but
It is the government, and not myfelf, that win,
protected from calunny, Immediately after
the grand jury were difcharged.
Mr.. Harper. Have you ever feen the print
ed depoiition of Mr.. Read on this fubied. II
you are acquainted with any particular circum.
ftances relative to 1t pleaie to fate them.
ID do not know any particular circumftan.
as refpeGting it.
Mr.. Harper. mean to enquire whether there
was any couiultation?
n. Ifyou mean private converfaton, it may
be improper to fate what may be conlidered as
confidential.
Mr.. Harper. will not then ak for it.
MIR. Mie6oJon. If tbeie queftions are ftated
with view TO impeach the tefimony of Mr..
Read, hope they will be put and anfwered.
Mr.. Harper. 1 will fate the object of the
quefon. 1t is to ,lifcredit the teftimony of Mr..
Read by particular circumstances that occurred
IN conversation between the witnefs and him.
IF the witnefs knows of no fuch circumstances
have been miGnformed.
Mr.. Rodney. Confcious that nothing which
can be tated will in the Leaf invadate the tefti-
mony of MIR. Read, it is my with, and that ofthe
managers, to allow the fulleft liberty to the wit
nefs to fate any thing he knows.
Mr.. Moore. l will anfwer any queftion put,
but unlefs directed ihal not confider it correct
Mr.. Harper. will wave all further enquiry,
if the wtnefs deem it indicate.
Mr.. Moore intmated that he did 70 deem it.
MIR. RandoLbb. / will ak the witnefs ifhe e.
yer had conversation with Mr.. Read on the
fubjeo.
II. Frequently.
Mr.. Randolph. underftand you to fay that
you do not know any thing that goes to invali-
date Mr.. Reads teftimony.
II. Yes, fir,
Mr.. Randolph. That is all we want.
Mr.. Hopkiu/on here adduced charge deliver
ed by chief juftice M'Kean in November 1897
in Philadelphia, printed in Caypoole's paper in
December 1897 refpe6ting alledged librllous
publications of William Goblet.
Mr.. Harper. We will now adduce tefimonv
relative to the sths article. But before we call
our witnefics, l will ak queltion or two of Mr..
Montgomery.
Mr.. MONTGOMERY was called.
MIR. Harper. VIII you look at that paper.
Is it the publication referred to in your teftimo-
ny as having been fent to the prefs
Mr.. Montgomery, Yes, fir,
Mr.. Harper. Did you ever fend any other
publication of the fame kind to newfpaper?
II. No, fir.
MIR. Harper. will offer this publication in
evidence and will proceed TO read it.
Mr.. Montgomery. A fhort time after re-
turped home, from my recollection at that time,
l committed to paper what | conceived to We
the fubftance of the charge delivered by Judge
Chafe, and made my comments upon it. The
court will ob.erve that it refers to other con-
duct of Judge Chafe in the fate of MARYLAND.
Mr. Harber here read the paper above al
luded to from the Baltimore American Of the
soth June, 1908, and added, this is the temper
of the witnefs, who has on previous day given
his teitimony in this court.
Mr.. Harper. ] will now proceed to fhow
that MIR. MONTGOMERY, in his ltrong anxiety to
get Judge Chafe impeached, has remembered
things which nobody ellie remembers, and has
heard things which nobody ellie heard.
Mr. Randolph. l will afk of this court whe-
ther the witnenes we have called are not under
their protection
The PrefAent. IF The council, in the tettimo-
ny they adduce, come up to what they Fate
they can prove, they will not be fubjec to re-
proach; if they do not, they merit it.
Mr.. Randolph. have no objection to the
council impugning the veracity of one witnefs
by the evidence of another, and defcauting up
on it; but think they take an improper liberty
when they undertake TO fay before it is proved,
that what is depofed by a wtnefs. never pa:1ed.
TIE Prefdent. / underftand the gentleman
to fay that he will prove by another witnefs,
that what has been depofed, did never pats.
Mr.. Harper. Precitely 70, fir.
Mr.. wINDER fworp.
Mr.. HARPER. / will ak yon whether YOU was
in the circuit court of the United States held at
Baltimore, in May, sos. / will however pre-
viou0y obfe, We that it is not my intention to
fay or TO prove that the witnefs, when he de-
pofed to certain facts, knew that they had not
paifed. mean only to impesch his correctness,
and to infer that as he was angry, he gave TO
what he heard, the coloring of his own feelings.
Mr.. WThder. ! was prefent at that court
when it was opened, and the jury empannelled,
and heard judge Chafe deliver his charge. Az
ter delivering the general and ufual charge to the
grand jury, he faid he begged leave to detain
them few minutes while he made fume eener
al reflections on the fituation of public affairs.
He commenced by laying down fome abfraft
opinions, Eating that that government was the
free &, bappythat wasi he ben administered moh
that republic might be in naverv, and mon
archy free. H. alto drew fome diltin6ions with
regard to the doctrine of equal rights, and faid.
that the idea of perfect equality of rights, more
particularly fiIch ne had been roached in France,
was fanciful and untrue, that the only doctrine
commended for with propriety was, the equal
protection of all claf1es from opprefIion. He
commented on the repeal ofthe Judiciary fyftem
of the United States, and remarked that it had
tendency to weaken the judiciary, and to render
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