The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-12-23
Libei-Bacon vi. Webb.

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III any individual should happen to have anything
Injurious said Of him in this paper we shall always be
ready aud willing to do him ample justice and make the
amend honorable, on his application for !"
This passage occurs Ia the course Of article
meniing at considerable length the recently tried
6ut still Pendine) suit of Bacon Webb, for libel.
Is plain III In that suit though fully satisfied that
article was conceved In no unfeudy ilibera spirit
towards him. and though grateful, indeed for the gen
orally correct and favorable account which 1t gives or
yss m TN IN rev 80 oaSso ~ ~.
cause that ne makes to you to insert this
explanation IN the hope that you will bs ready and
willing to do him ample Justice"
You have de- orbed the plaintiff as literary" per-
SON. hs true In the common acceptance of the term
"a regard to his former but not bis present. occupation
Hei practising physician and 1t Is upon that bust
ness that no and mas been FOR several years. depen
osnt TOT 'e,iaooa though occasionally receiving some
money from the sale OF what may DO called literary
productions published, along time ago.
the iosious lor strictly slandsrou charge for which
does not OF any Of the rdicue abuse or mpu
tations of crime dishonor and immortality with which
four years for the plaintiff has not supposed that they
would be generally credited or regarded to his serious
dsmnaton misrepresentation, or rdio1s Of any thing
wniSh ne mas written he mas always taken IL Tor grant,
cd that every person who Voluntarily obtrudes his
writings upon the public must take all these things,
amater q course from oil who dislike him. or his state
ments, or opinions and he has certainly taken his full
share such abuse through the whole OF his
writer beginning with the time when he but seven.
teen years old
made against bm altogether independently Of any sup
posed or CRITICISM or of his wr
tnss bad been made against him several years before
wss published by the defendant, and had been beev
Cd, by pereons unacquantsd with the plaintiff In the
year s4 the told the plaintiff that jealous
IN THIS recently called on him and
told him that the plaintiff (whom the defendant was
about to engage As an associate in busines Dsane
cnd the defendant was earnestly warned on this account
70 slun any association or connection with the plaintiff
Inc deendant then repealed and derided the imputa
tion and formed an engagement with the plaintiff,
when lasted until the parties chose to separate In
perfectly amieaos manner and they continued to be
on tns most rendy terms Tor year after the separa
ZION uctoosr 1919 political dispute occurred be.
tween tnem wnicn resulted In making the DEFENDANT
sne mos oitter ana msgnant enemy OF the plaintiff
Inc charge OF insanity which the defendant knew to
70 tns ousines ana prospects, OF the plain.
n tnss oonld % made was then revived by him, and
,rnsrc. hut isp "t e,ners undsr ms
nnusncs' out was not printed until June, eighteen
Iaorra sno Iorty.nve, at when time II was publicly
at;.a .1e OF tne deiendant IN
repeatedly iescsed with references calculated to sug
Esss 70 latonHts an interest In their repetition
c2ss n ne ,sa5 ~ Sn wsrs ana again tall
V-sa ~ 1uy' ros' ~ Apli Io'o ana ~ several other
ih, Ia a.,q 10, .nae ~ UNI OF TINS
a. Sas na anu S,,aa M OF tne
tnlopguouI ans county ~ has Deen copied by great
Stmnsf 81 ,nnusn newspsPsrs' IN tnis and other
ness ana has destroyed the confidence ofhe
pubic ms anu feason, ana In his tsstmony
on rSipp ttarent lii .at,.f o,, AL - A..
n ,.s WIN 'as',y w enu youI IesoerS tnat
Wy sot. VI 40 hot Propery sapyec1
to tns which your article makes on the sub
Je.sS S -. H - 10 a pa ouaty snose sup
possa 20 % M On .via, anu vexatous pre.ex,
VI Iot Ino eske "a no'oety OF money; In re-
gssa 70 sI h sns pSsntn vssy maon OF your opin-
on, 90 e nse sn " ny qu.es auu contsnptuousIy
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