Virginia free press & farmers' repository. [volume] (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1827-1832, 1832-05-24

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feleevsph vill rseelleet that this Mai
! Heard ID the inaividuai, Who few Iayv
since, psblished BULLETIN in the Glo6e,
announcing bis intention 70 assault Mr..
Arneld for What hs had said on che
iloer Of the House, relative to Hess lou
We will give this document to the pub.
iic te-morrow.
We learn that the partisaas Of the
President will esdeavesr to prove tina,
Dir. Heard 10 derassed! Yet they,
to-day, refused to permit an iovesties.
tion OF the charge, that ne ss.d Ian.
psgs tending 70 stimulate assaults up.
e members Tor words used in debate
How viii such pAstissus explain the
Bulletin pablishsd in the Official "a.
per, anneuucing in advance his inten
tisn 70 commit the assault ?
We have not space fer the comment
which these facts call fer. They arc
. ht comneniary upon the prsceedings
IN Heuston's case, and Afford much
scope for reflection.
ave do not recollect, {" say the ed.
itors Of the National Intellixeneer.
sthat any thing has occurred in this
eity ser many years past, to prodacs
~ great q sensation n the outrage,
hastily noticed in our last, Of an ss.
sault on the person Of Mr.. Arnold, che
Representative from Tennessee, By M.
A. Heard, who, We learn, was former.
W Of the Army. There seems to be
bat one opinion In relation 10 il. Even
the official paper, which apologies for
the previous assault upon Mr.. Stan.
berry, calls this last assault ian out.
rage disgraeeful to the country" The
circumstance that Mr.. Arnold had, but
an hour before, declared in his speech
his opinion that no man was safe from
violence who expressed his opinions
freely on that floor, greatly added in
the public mind TO The effect Of thi'
outrage. The offender against the pub.
iio peace IN this case, has, We under.
stand, been taken in custody Of the
civil authority, and Is new in eenfine.
ment therefor, 10 Be dealt with in due
course Of Law.
THE GLOBES APOLOGY.
Prom long article in the Globe, on the sub
ject Of the attack upon Mr.. Arseld, we ex,rae,
the fOliowing apology for Major Heard
"Mr. Heard, being personal friend
to Governor Houston, resolved 10 70.
sent IN insult offered 10 him, while On.
der duress, by Mr.. Arnold. or this
intention he adnonished Mr.. Arnold,
on casual meeting in the street. The
latter ressnted this thrsugh Card in
the lntelIigenesr, intimating that Heard
was restrained from attacking him on.
ty by eowardice. Heard repiied
through this print. We understand
that member Of the House. and "a.
veral others, friends Of the administra.
ton, emitted with Gen. Hoasisn in,ex.
tcrting premise from Heard TO con.
tent HIMSELF with bis paper defiance.
They urged upoa him che mischief /.
would do Heasion himself-shs pur.
pesss 60 which il weaid be applied by
the epposieisu. aud every ether pruden.
tisi consideration that eesid Be- sug.
| gestsd. he at last pledged himself 70
Igive up his' iatenti0n TO attack Arnold
bat, unluekiIy, becoming insbriated
before he went 70 the Capitol, The 70.
solved, IL ssems, to-panish Arnold for
tAe new aeronts, shich he supposed
that Individual intended 10 offer him, 10
his speech o. that day, by exclaimine
against sssassins. whom he described
40 hanging about the Hobbies Of the
House. Heard, laborinR under previ.
Gus excitement, and driven auite be.
side himself by the aifronis with which
ne was geaded. brought On The encoun.
Ter IN which he was severely wounded.
Fortunately, Mr. Arnold escs ped an
hort. the arm being only slightly bruis-
From the National InieHigsaesy.
Now, we shall not attempt. as the
Giebe does, to interfere with the course
OF justiee IN the case, to which its strie.
tures relate. IL 10 FOE the paper which
represents The dignity Of the Execu.
tive, 10 apologize Ter, aad al but iasti.
fys the use Of clubs and pistols a. fl
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