The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1839-04-27

ulCtHeHli Out ndu eFlueOuY Deen introduced
from personal motives towards himself
The person by whom they had been intro.
duced had disclaimed any feelings of hostili-
ty; but there were resident in and about
Harrisburg, certain yelping ours who were
barking at his heels, and for
whom he felt the utmost sovereign contempt
who had, no doubt, furnished the infor-
nation with view to suggest the course
which had been taken, for the purpose Of
injuring him in the estimation OF the COM
munity.
Mr.. Barton replied that the Indictment
having been Abandoned his preseut purpose
was accomplished; and if Mr.. Fisher had
contented himself with simply stating that
the prosecutors could not reply to the OBJ
jections of the defendants counsel and had
stopped short at that point, he would have
had nothing more to say. But as the learn
ed counsel had gone on to make an elabor-
ate statement in reference to the aflidavits
which had been filed and read in the morn
ing. something of reply might not be con-
sldered superhuous. 1t did appear to him,
that, instead of deprecating the effect which
the aflidavits in question might have upon
his interests or standing or inquiring into
the motives of those who prompted OF pre-
pared them, the learned counsel would have
better consulted propriety and vindicated
his character, by denying or explaining the
statements therein set forth on solemn oath.
On that head, the gentleman had been unac.
countably silent, AS to the "yelping curs'
to whom he had referred, of HARRISBURG
origin location, he (Mr. b. knew nothing
of and cared nothing Tor them, and would
leave the settlement Of such canine quarrels
TO the parties concerned. He desired the
gentleman to understand that the afIidavits
which appeared to have so irritating an effect
upon his sensitiveness, had been prepared
exclusively by him; without consultation
with any person or persons as to the ex-
pedlency Of so using the facts which those
afiidavi;s disclosed;and that if the gentleman
had aught of vengeance to visit on the head
Of any one, on his should it fall, for he a.
vowed, felt, and held himself fully respon-
sible, there and every where. But, he re-
peated, aught of malignty or hostility to
Mr.. Fisher he disclaimed.
A sense of Justice only had prompted
him TO the course which had been pursued;
and though no, desirous of wounding the
counsel's feelings he had not paused to cal
culate the possibility of such contingency.
He gave the gentleman full notice, that he
intended to take good care that these aflida-
Wits should be published TO the world; that the
public might pause and ponder upon the
motives which prompted the prosecution,
and the extraordinary manner in which it
had been carried on. Mr.. Fisher had spo-
ken unguardedly--he had, in paroxsm
Of candor, revealed the truth, and there was
not wanting an abundance of circumstances
10 confirm it. Nothing had been spared
to affect the public mind. Inhamatory ap-
peals to prejudice had been published un-
del the signatures of men, who had been
bound over TO testify in behalf of the pro-
secutinn, filled with scandaous and pervert-
ed details of the occurrences at the seat of
government in December; which had been
circulated most industrously in the presses
of the very county where The trial was to
be had; after the finding too, OF the bill of
indictment. The very bill of Indictment,
as soon as found, and before the defendants
had been called on to plead, was thrust into
the anti-masonic prints of Dauphn county;
and obruded upon the gaze of those by
whom the cause was to be tried. Nav,
that renowned political Grimaldi, the
Speaker of the Senate, who had Just return
ed from sort of prilgrimage in the state of
New York, where he had been roaming,
"The wandering out law of his own dirk mind"
in the somewhat ominous vicinity of Auburn
or Sing Sing, had, this very week, while
the trial was peuding, published in the Har-
risburg, g,papers, the conclusion of statement
IN relation to those occurrences, filed with
all manner Of foulness and falsehood and
referring directly in that address to the "ju-
dicial Investigations" which Was Just about
to take place. All this, coupled with the
declarations of Mr.. Fisher, was sufficient
to expose to the eye of the most incredu-
lous, the glarng deformity and unhalowed
character of this prosecution.
Mr.. Barton continued in the same strain,
for considerable length of time, to reply
to the remarks of Mr.. Fisher.
After which. few further observations
were made by Mr. Fisher, without, how
ever, venturng to deny, in the most distant
n,opnor tho ,rntb oc Il.