Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1831-08-26

TO have further prosecuted bi, action. At present We
ment He sni persists in speaking Of the charges
against him "Libei'." IT, according to the Eoglsh
law, the greater the truth, the greater the libel, then
are The charges hbeis, and no, otherwise. Had the
charges been false he would not have backed out and
abandoned his suit in the manner he has done. The
burden OF proof was wholly on us-and surely an in'
n0ctnf man would never have shruuk from an inves
CATION on account OF the "excea state oil public feel
ing-more especially when the inve sits alton was TO
take place In section OF the State where his own Po-
iuied friends were more numerous than ours-and m
his oton neighborhood too, where all his personal
friends reside, and where Strangers III the pub
tic feeling has been ercited, the responsibility rests
wholly with his iriends, and not upon us; for, i'm
mediaeIy after the election in $780, published
quest that our opponents would cease 10 discuss the
merits oil that case, until the trial should be had
promising at the time TO observe silence
own part, In ass the reques, complied With. This
they reused to debut continued unrsaiiugy to as
sail us With the charge OF forgery and perjury
October.
Mr.. Upham, II seems, considers Mr.. I,aac Hill, the
"duthor Of what he 10 pleased TO denominae the eli
6ets." Now what has been Mr.. Hhps agency in this
business 2 He vas not dsfendant in the suit,
was he even toitness in the case-hs bad peeuni
airy interest a, stake in the result Of the trial When
the papers were discovered at Portsmouth,, aAording
proof that Upham hid been engaged ia sundry snug
CLING specdOns, Col. Decatur teok them 10 ash
ihg,on aud laid them before the President Upham
was, in onsequepee dismissed fson the ,ica OF Col
ec;or, and the papers deposited in the Treasury
casddae for Governor sometim- in January 1880. I'm
defstaud dug that such proof on file in Ia Tr-asury
Department, we wrote immediately 10 MIR. Hi who
then held the situation OF Second Comptroller Of III
Treasury procure the papers aud ,hem
pies of heu, for publ :aiion. Mr.. Hill procured the
papers accordingly, and after satisfying himself Of their
genuineness, by submitting them 10 several gentlemen
acquainted with Uphams hand writing, he forw arded
them TO us ageeaby 10 request This 10 the sgen-
cy MIR. Hill had in the and II these ctcum-
ssnces constitute him the "author OF the Li6els." then
Mr. pham does right 10 hold him responsible, and TO
treat him The author OF all his misfortunes for the
last three gears NJ Hill was absent from the State
the whole OF the wioter Of lS29-3O aud conse aueny
could have taken little par, 10 the election which Mr.
Uphsm had the tune TO be defeated and the
only reason can sonesiye OF, why Mr.. Hill should
be selected as the object Of personal attack, il. that
bring lame man, he was likely % present lrs' physi
colJorce to attack, than any other individual
| cerned-a sircumsisnce which none but very brave
men would ever take into account
| We eau see no reason why MIR. Upham should de-
lay his publication one moment When that appears
as we before observed, shalt bs ready 10 meet
bu, Should il no delayed for unreasonable length o.
time. we shall proceed 10 lay before the public the
! proof which goes TO convict Timothy Uphdm, OF
charge which ne has cirtuaily admitted, by with
drawing bis action from CGur,, and which must plac,
The federal party in New HAmp.hite, who have made
his their own, aud who Lave stood by him 10 tn,
last in TO envable attitude.
THE CowARDLY ASSAULT.
Tho federal editors are endesvorng to gloss The
lae outrage at Exeter, and 10 make the ransaeon sp
pea, honorable to Me- UPham disgrace fol 20 Mr.. Hill
II has been asserted that Mr. H's friends looked qui
ely on toiihOut Offering assistance. SO far from ,h
being true bad no, Mr.. Hal requested his fends
10 assault UphaU, he would have received a SCUM,
beating the spO;-here were many Of Mr.. Htlr
friends present, who were ready and ahundaniy adj
TO do H.. TEey did interfere, MIR. Waltron the no
meni, when UPham instantly drew back aud rersate'
into the house. He remainsd 10 Exeter seaeIy 6fesI
minutes after tbs trsDsac'i0n Ead reirsated Ports
mouth in eviden, alarm Such was the excitement il
Portsmouth, that the alani general" gdrrisoned hi
house, and kept our vidsites to watch tie
in the town.
Ia IL not true, as stated in the federal p,pe tha
Mr.. Hill appealed TO The Grand Jury The Who'll
business was transacted before he knew what 20
Ing for ard in regard 10 the indis;meu and
his political friends caiisd testify before til
Grand J@ry
. When the Court had como through with the bust
n P S Se sSnyrdsY k, .poes'0,s has
minutes He said there was an Indictment on an
Clerks label againIt person who did not h 10 con
tend, and would plead gnlty; the gentleman indiste
was present, AGd would he very convenient for hin
4 the Court would pass judgment. III sa:d The defsn
dart was willing 10 be fined TO Tie Of the siau
Tor assault and battery ten dollars The Al,orne,
Genersi answered, that he indietmsn found o.
90 the statute and that IL The Court Shout
be appFi'ed OF the nature and ageravaon Of The
before passing sentence. On ibis anpuneia,ioa, nj
son aud the whole posse oil Uphaus counsel Comic
thai The Cour, was restricted by the statue-hst ,h
new edition OF the laws had rssTisied The Law! ''H
dollar stripe" raid Mason, "was judge Walker
law, and this will be an ple pay. gentIem an presen
sad, IN an under tone, ''f this is tie law we wi
nave Mason whipped into inch pssos when he goe
back TO Porismouih-tbere enough ihere gho ar;
willing TO ray for IT," Ths Chief Justics told Mas5r
plainly that bis law good. That there W or,
many eases 10 which the Court had ibHic,ed punish
ment under the common W. and that he ,youIJ n
able TO show that there law for Furnishing offence
aseordirg to heir enofmity The Curt then ad,urne,
10 Monday Since when We have not learnt The teenI,
~ II Patriot
WASHINGTON, AUGUST 2I-We learn FINN On.