The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-04-01
Baltimore, March -, ls43.
w. II. NoRRIs, ESQ, JUDGE ADVOCATE.
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w. II. NoRRIs, ESQ, JUDGE ADVOCATE.
My DEAR SIR
Ihsve this morning read an ARTICLE in the Neu York
Courier & Enquirer OF the 18th inst which your private
and professional reputation most grossly assaied sim
cerey lament that your character should have been
much misunderstood The writer does himself great inus
ce in desiring place you in such false position before
the public thorough msconception Of the char
actsr OF another have than that revealed in
much of the article refers to you There times
when is not only excusabe but duty to face to
face, the good opinion that is entertained of when
assaled; and consider the present case such one
With reference your profession reputation well
known to have been of great promises and it was
your position at the bar for residence in the western part
Of Missouri and that the desire OF every member Of
the Baltimore bar, (whose good opinion was worth pos
sessngD that should reurn and that you did your
self great injustice i'll having voluntarily turned aside
from the path before you that plainly leading you to
distinction add, with equal confidence, that your re-
Baltimore after years absence, hailed
with pleasure by your brethren of the profession As to
your private character, | have known you long time
and most Intimately and equally well informed of the
estimate placed you by Others who have had every
opportunity Judge have considered you the sy
nonyme of honor do believe tina, the members
OF the high and honorable profession 10 which belong
were polied from Maine TO Georgia. hat there would be
found among that honorable band Containing many
high and envabe names to whom the charge Of dis
honorable dishonest conduct could with less justice
apply than yourself As TO the manner that you may
have conducted the entrusted to you the Judge
Advocate cannot speak oits professional merits de-
merits. This think, that do know that there is not
living who could safely prompt you other
than the dictated by the honest conviction of your
own judgment knowing your sensiblnty, can readily
suppose that you feel aggrieved to be charged among
strangers, with being actuaed by unworthy motives in
the discharge ofyour duty In New York am almost
total stranger so much so that my testimony might in
turn require testimony otherwise should voluntary
seize the occasion disabuse the public mind from the
effect OF this assault on and place your character in
what esteem its true light That you honorable
and fearless and above the suspicion of being capa
BILE of doing worthy of gentleman, is believe
the opinion of all who have known you from boyhood to
the present hour.
Having thus referred to the great injustice done to
you and the entire misconcepon of your character
cannot but avail myself of the occasion to say that with
reference to the commanding officer OF the Somers, my
entire sympathies enlisted with him; and that from
the first development OF the facts formed opinion
which has never been in the slightest degree changed
and that the opinion fthe Court of Inquiry every
particular 80 far met the public eye) in conformity
with the one found, and still entertained Try
Your sincere friend
JOHN b NORRIS,
President OF Mechanics Bank of Baltimore.
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