Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1825-12-03

because l said, sd directed Judgment
to be entered, but that il was inadvertents
ly omitted by the clerk 10 be put on rec
ord" therefore, in bis own words, IL is
on record, is a syllogism far above my
comprehension. My words were too
plain to be misunderstood.
But before Gov Coles gets through
his learned dissertation to prove the mi
mites OF court were the records OF
court, he had TO indulge himself, as osu-
al, In misrepresenting my words-he
stops short, and TO give some coloring to
his case, declares that I" while admit
judgment was NOT entered, yet assert
if gras on record" This happens TO be
another creature of bis imagination.
asserted no such thing. My words are,
81 ordered il entered, and which the
minutes Of the court shew, and through
the press OF business and inady ertence Of
the clerk, it was omitted" Yet with
these words staring him in the lace, he
can assert that 1 said the judgment "was
on record"
But Mr.. Starr says that this mis- ,ate-
ment OF Gov. Coles, as to what said
about the entry OF Judgment on the rec
ord, must have been owing to his con-
founding the minutes Of a court with tho
records OF court; and that he must
have supposed minutes, which ! observ-
ed showed judgment was directed to
be entered, meant records. Suppose
this to be true, yet how shall we account
for bis declaration, that "while | admit
that a judgment was not entered, yet !
assert il zoas On record"-words which
never used, but just The reverse OF those
did use. confess l cannot very easi-
ly account for his written statement,
purpor,ing 10 give my words, and which
Is yetso Numerically opposite TO what I
did say, upon any principle Of mistake,
except it be such mistake as his denial
Of the proposition made 10 him by Capt.
| Buckmaster.
| But would not such ignorance, were
his statenen, made through ignorance,
as TO what is meant by the minutes, The
memoramdums, and what by Tie public
records OF a court, be equally marvel
ious Is there boy OF ten years Old in
the state, who does not know tho differ
ence But that it was from such gross
ignorance, or from design, that Gov.
Coles has thus misrepresenied me, there
can be no doubI-lhere is but that alter
native, and | care not which horn oil The
| dilemma his Excellency takes.
When | read the TWO anonymous at
!aoks upon me, over Communicated"
and Justice" particularly The latter,
and learned that Gov. Coles was the au-
thor, l resolved to adop. some course in
relation TO him, which would either pro-
duce satisfactory explanation 10 me tor
bis abusive publications, or by which
would establish their untrutt--unveil
him from ibis fictitious names, and ex-
pose him to the public.
III know my own heart, l strictly per-
formed ny duly in his cause; felt
consciousness OF this !; and had he heap
cd ten times as much OF his abuse upon
me, | should have felt it my boubden
| duty TO have decided as did.
| Besides, knew The whole of bis &C.
cusalory publication 10 be untrue; and
the charges. therefore he had heaped
| upon me. were not to be passed over
Above all, l was determined that the
| fictitious names substitui cd for his own,
| by this hidden conspirator against my
| character and reputation, should be torn
off. 1t was under This Discriminate
stated TO him in my letter " that did
not write anonymously for newspapers,
and tina, il was compelled to notice him
in the public journals Of the country, he
should find such evidence of my being
the author, that he would have no ncces-
si,y tor inquiring of the editors OF news
papers," and the first line of this sentence
he has since misrepresented. there
tore addressed him in letter on the sub
!ect, stating that it was foreign from my
wish or inclination to enter into newspa-
per controversies, but that if his libel
lous attack upon me were not explained,
should feel myse If bound to do So
/, is true, as he says in his letter to Mr..
Mr. Forquer, he did offer publicly to
correct the anonymous publications he
made against me, if would accept Of his
doing it anonymously, to wit: over
Justice" This, informed him,
would hot accept, and that nothing but
full and ample a,onement, over his own
signature, would be accepted. Had he
then retracted his publications, although
| | bad The proof to establish their lalse-
hood, should never have written a SEN
,ence on the subject.
then called upon him for the autho.
rsfu nd au;Ieuca ha had for = ;o, III.