Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1847-03-12
Correspondence OF The Baltimore SUM-
UNITED STATES CIRCUIT CoUkr.
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boiy MI lnai hour in relation 10 the case though
there was buz that The high contracting powers
1ere IN solemn coEcla"e, devisins means 10 SET
tie The whole affair. Neiihs. Colonel Benton nor
the prosecuting counsel appeared in court. Al
halt las. one Governor L. lei, he court room
WIN a lIienf. Al z U'cioca Colonel Preston aud
General Jones came mo court arm in arm !ul-
lowed by Governor Mcdowell, FendalI, Key,
Mausby, and Ohio Scot, OF Hartford county,
Md. lhe court were Sent Tor. and as soon as
they appeared, isns!al ]. moved that Mr.. Scott
he admitted 10 This bar, which was ordered
Judge Cranch-Wi,, We proceed 10 swear
Jury IN this easel
Gen. Jones-l nave 10 ANNOUNCE 10 The court
The end oi dis painful and ceplorablc conrover-
-. In DONG So, The counsel lor the defendant
have i"kta responsibility which, perhaps, is
without precedent, gel, uncer the circumstances,
he hoped tie court wVu'd agree 10 il. They had
been Two years IN making up an issue in This
case, III advising what should bc done, and the
counsel hai now come L. The conclusion that the
cduse ~ The Whole ~ ibis unnappness was ow-
ing t. Whai might he Gale. visitation Of God.
Inc accused hat many viltnes and eminent Ia
ieDs, his understanding npon general subjects
was sane and even brilliant; bur we must say,
that, Ifom experience, upon this unhappy sub
lec', liie differences with his WIFE, his imagina-
lion had suffered rom ard exists under morbid
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va, even struggling with inis de!uslon. We
inc.eiuic haze though, ihs declaration Just AMI
rture-. W. Eii.h ave made a defence at nu-
tna, Gr.u>io0, bdt u would be troublesome ant
attended wan many Giicuie>; We have, under
ne c,.sGii.sldi ccs, taken on ourselves on eur
own responsibility, without consultation with
him ~ al; N, .on,, H. L,ye nj; >,.,.n.,,t on.
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sideied, 70 justify them 81 10 give them any color
al probability, oF u justly any suspicion, grave
~ night 81 their realty; and tha, all those sus-
ricion> amt Ait u. gross charges growing ont Of
iheia, originate, IN III unhappy Gelusion, des,-
lite OF al real i"an"ail"n ~ .c;, but eAerinr
inc, die sway oser Inc mimi and Imagination
IT ihe deiendan and = hlic hey were accompa-
med w!h many va,iilaiivns ui mind evincino The
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cions, he found himself iDpelled, BY The over
mastering power 81 rlcrtid d.!u>ion alone, to up
hold bsiote The i;h'ic.
In le hope that this declaration may serve
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gard when " sincerely subscribe This declara-
lion. w. JONES.
OHIO SCOTT.
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e. :. V. Tiom0s.-My appearance on the part
q! The prosecution IN This case was exclusively
iof The purpose 81 vlndicatihS The character o.
MIS-. ;. &. 7. Mcdowell, my niece from all
charges and impua'ioas, al any time made, and
Tor the purpose oil pn'iin2 her innocence and pn-
ii'y "eio'c me Cou't "hd country ana 'bis
purpose beng accomplished by me declarations
oi Inc learned cnhh>el Tor Tue defence on lhe re.
coia, ! isei no id,thei interest IN inc case, anu
consider ny functions at an END. -
r.Gstn, 1871 W. y. fRto ION.
AIR CcnlalI-I Sand in tho same nosi,ion
,,;,b NJ pr,.,op anJ ,ccord win ev,rv wo,d
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mi in mi, ca.e and 70 read 10 the conr, paper
t[om - ,h I'm n,osecn,nr Mr. Kew then read me I'LL.
lowing paper:
havct say 10 this Honorable Court, that this
indictment was mol Instituted by me with any
view t. obtain redress for injury done 10 myself
or my vile, in The publication Of the letter com
planned Of "a libelous, but exclusively 10 get an
oppostuniy al lryias ne run OF 'he accusation
made BY Francis Thomas, in his pamphiel Of
1915, against his then wife, the neice OF my wife.
As p'cot Of This, The record Will show nat The
indictment on The letter was no; Instituted until
March 1915, when The palnphe, was published;
the letter Itself having been published nearly one