Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-07-22

OF total abstinence from all that can in
toxlcate, and thus ante your name and
! influence with toe virtuous and the good,
10 save and bless mankind.
TRIAL FOR LIBEL.
III is known to many that E. c. DeIaUdn
has long been under indictment, for an al
legged libel against the maltsters and brew
ers Of Albany; and that he has finally been
acquitted by the Circuit Court. The trial
is published in a pamphlet OF IS pages.
which can be had of Erastus H. Pease, So
State street Albany, n. Y, at S., a hun
dred, or $50 thousand.
The prosecutors have written, as with a
diamond, on their own foreheads before the
world, shame, condemnation, and indellible
infamy. Because the fact that they have
prosecuted for $500. 600, damageis evidence
in full that they themselves view the trans
actions with which they were charged as
! being most Infamous and abominable. Now
( if these gentlemen brewers and malt-mak-
ers have been damaged three hundred thou
! sand dollars by the publication of The fact
for il turns out 10 be fact-that they
have been in the habit Of using water in
carrying on their business, which was ONLY
fit TO manure the land with, how much have
those been damaged who have been swilI-
ing this liquid manure down their threats (?
propose 10 give few extracts from the
trial, including some brief extracts from the
full and abundant evidence.
CIRCUIT CoURT,--ApIii Term, 1910.
Judge CusEman presiding.
JOHN TAYLOR Us. EDWARD G.. DELAvAN.
Counsel for Plaintiff, -.
Eessrs. Sterens Reynolds, FcKotrn g. Van Barren.
Counsel for Defendant,
Messrs. Becrasley, Ta5er and Wheaton.
THE PROSECUTION.
Tuesday April II, 1870.
Mr. Stevens opened with brief state
ment Of the case. John Taylor, the plain
tiff, Mr.. S. said, was very worthy and
respectable inhabtant of this city. He
had been, for great number of years
past, engaged 10 the occupation OF brew
er. He had had, and now had, a large
amount Of property invested in this bust
ness. .a
Some few years ago, lie believed in
1850, the defendant. Mr. Edward c.. Del
AVIAN, became exceedingly DESTROYS 10 OBJ
tain no'oriety. He was engaged in a We
~ good cause; a cause which enlisted
the sympaihies and good wishes Of all the
citizens of this place; a cause which Re
believed he might say, without fear of
contradiction, had had the benefit of the
time the influence, the money Of Mr..
Taylor, as well as Of a grea. many other
citizens OF this community. The defend
ant at the time mentioned, saw fit to pub
lish or cause to be published, Of and con
corning Mr.. Taylor and the business in
which he was engaged, certain libel in
the public newspapers printed in this city,
for which this action was brought.
This libel, this false and scurriious ar
ticle. which Mr.. Delavan saw proper.
through the medium of the public press.
to publish against Mr. TAYLOR, was one
that was calculated 10 hold him up 10 the
scorn, the contempt, the hatred of every
honest man; to bring his business into
disrepute; indeed, to utterly ruin him, SO
far as bre wing beer or making malt was
concerned to show him up 10 the public
as entirely reckless of the means of man
ufacturing the article he vended
Mr. S. proceeded to read the alleged IL
bel from the Evening Journal of the l2,h
February, 1885, as follows:
"TO THE PUBLIC.
"The following statement has been
made by respectable and responsible
person, in the presence of Chief Justice
Savage and E. G. Dslavan; nhe former
took down the testimony The indiviI-
ual making the disclosure felt deIicacy
in giving his name 10 tie public; but
should his statements be denied, he stands
ready, not only to give his name. ba.
make oath TO the facts:
He states, that so long since as six or
seven years he was knowing 10 the fact Of
Fidier and Taylor's, and Robert Ddnlap's
mating establishment on the hall in Al
bany, being supplied with water for malt
ing from siaenant pools, cutters and ditch
es, often in snch state as 10 be green on
The surface; that such water was collect
ed for several seasons 10 his knowledge.
That he had not only seen the water cf
this character collected, but deposited la
! The mating establishment for The use Of