Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-09-14

EXTRAORDINARY PROSECUTION FOR LIBEL
Gen. 1dylor's Pitsburg Spesch.--S,atemenis
have been made in some of the papers that
the editor of the Morning Post. at Pittsburg,
has been prosecuted for publishing forged
speech of Gen. Taylor" But this is not ex
| actly the case, as we learn from the Post of
Monday last Ii appears that on Gen. Tay-
lor's visit TO Pittsburg. Mr.. P. 3. Tempeton
made report of his speech, copies of which
he furnished 10 the Journal and Gazette, the
two wing papers of that city, from which we,
also, at the time, copied it into the Sun. On
the day after lis appearance in the Journal and
Gazette, the Post, a democratic paper of Pitts
burg, contained the following notice of it =
eve observe that the caricaiure' on Gen.
Taylor's speech, delivered in this city, as re-
ported for the Gazette and Journal, is being
published in the fedora! papers al the East
We again repeat the declaration, on unques-
tionable authority. thatno such speech as that
reported was delivered by Gen Taylor in this
city. Topics were introduced into the printed
speech that The General never alluded to in
deed, the report is The greatest caricature
and forgery ever perpetrated upon public
man, as can be atested by those who heard
the original p .....
! On this paragraph, MIR. Temple:on has in
stituied a suit against MIR. Leaky Harper. edi-
tor of the Post, for libel, charging that he
knew that the speech was reported by him,
denying that the said report OF the speech was
. a forgery-and that his assertion TO the con-
trary is false, scandalous, and defamatory
libel. The Post, after publishing the affidavit
and noticing the case, says: ay.5 =t
" Now, in the first place, We aver that we
! did not aiiude 10 Mr.. Templeion, either direct
ly or indirectly, nor did we know who was
responsible for the report OF General TayloT's
speech that appeared in the columns OF the
= Gazette and Journal. But We have stated Il al
: no snch speech as that reported for these pa
9 peTs WAS delivered by Gen. Taylor in this eli
, fy; and this we are prepared TO prove by the
testimony ofwbigs, and shall prove, if oppor-
5 tunlty is afforded us. We repeat that the re-
e ported speech is gross caricature,' and was
. so considered by Gen. Taylor's travelling CON
! panions, who accompanied him 10 and from
this city, as IRE are prepared to prove, also.
We have reasons TO believe that General
. Taylor looked upon the report in question as
an insult 10 himself, personally; for. imme.
diately after his arrival at Erie, we find that
he got one of his travelling companions 1--WE
! presume MIR. MUDDY TO write letter to his
organ at Washington, the Republic, and pub.
licly announce that the Gazette's report Of the
speech was ERRoNEoUsn The letter is dated
/ Erie, Pa. A ugnst IS, 1S49,' and is publish.
ed in the Republic, August Both. We copy
one paragraph from The letter: - :.
. q The report of Gen. Taylors speech
e copied so extensively by, the whig press from
the Pittsburg Gazette-was, in many particu.
lars, ERRONEOUS, owing, probably, 10 The
haste in which it was written az a-E f4er
This fully confirms all we have said,
namely: that no such speech as that publish
ed in The Gazelteswas delivered by Gen., Tay-
ler in this city,. 1t is our intention, therefore.
: should this prosecutiongo on, (and we hope
: it may } 10 demand subpoena to procure the
. attendance of Gen. Taylor and his travelling
companions, DR.. Wood, Fl Clay Mudd, Mr..
Adams, &c &c., and also the editors and pub
{ fishers of the Washington Republic, 10 testify
: in relation iotbe 'erron eous' report and carl
cature' as published in The Gazette In this
2 we are serious, as the future will prove. II
it should be impossible 10 procure the person-
.. alattendaBce of the gentlemen named we shall
stake out a rule las the lawyers call it,1 Ia
take their dispositions at Washington city,"
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