The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-06-07
OFFICE OF COURIER AND ENQUIRER, !
Friday, June 9th, ISL.


Friday, June 9TH, lS5l. :
TO THE EDITOR or THE NEW YORK HERALD.
On Wednesday, about II o'clock, | had served
upon me certain papers, which, on coming to town
this morning, find were published in the Herald of
yesterday. 1t would thus seem, that copies for
publication were furnished to you before they had
been served upon me; and this very extraordinary
proceeding, will at once open the eyes of the pub
lie to the character and object Of this suit and do
monstratcs very clearly, that that object was not
the possession Of the letters alluded to- but the pub
lieation Of these cr parte proceedings
took the papers into the country with me, on
Wednesday evening; and yesterday, after carefully
perusiDg them, addressed TO Mr.. Buckham the ac-
companying letter; from which however, / have
erased certain portions, which, although important
in my to the bill Of complaint. would be out
Of place here. You will judge Of my surprise,
when, on coming to town this morning, with this
letter in my pocket, was met with the astounding
intelligence that all the papers in this suit had
been published in the HaaH yesterday!
This proceeding leaves no doubt in my mind Of
the existence Of conspiracy Of ordinary charac
ter to sustain Mr. Willis at every hazard; and com
pcls me TO answer the complaint Of the plaintiffs in
this sui instead Of following the course suggested
in my letter. In the mean time however, IL is due
10 myself and my friends, that the portion Of my
letter enclosed to you, should appear in your columns
to morrow; and that your readers may feel assured
Of tho truth OF its contents, pledge myself to en-
body every word Of the letter in my answer which,
Of course, must be to- This letter, therefore,
is entitled to precisely the same credcnce that it
would have merited If written under the solemnity
Of an oath
As soon MS my answer Is placed on fle, you will, |
doubt not, publish il IN crtnSo, an act Of justice
to oil parties. be the consequences what they may ;
and in the meantime, ] am well satisfied, that the
public will not make "a Judgment against me upon
the parfe testimony Of those who hope to screen
themselves by getting up false issue
Your obedient servant,
J. WATSON WEIR
p S.-I do not complain Of the severity Of your
remarks, based upon the prrte publications sub
mtted AS the case Is presented they are eminently
just; and, in like manner, shall not complain Of
what my contemporaries may publish. But il is
my right to ask, that all who may give publicity
to what my opponents have trumpcd up against me,
shall, in like manner, publish the accompanying
letter, and at the proper time, my answer to the
bill Of complaint which has already appeared in
your columns. j. w. W.
PoKAHoF, WEsrcHEsrrr, June 5, 1851
To GEonGE BroKHAM, ESQ.,
SiR-Whcn in town yesterday, | had served
| upon me the papers in the case OF Mr.. and Mrs
| Coddington, based upon your very extraordinary
| affidavit. To express surprise at this proceeding
would be idle, after having learned from Mr. Wf"ff
| that on the day of my first publication, You pro-
| claimed that you were the gentleman alluded to,
ard Mrs Coddington the female implicated, in that
| publications: and after Willis publicly pointing to
Mis-. CCddipgton rs the female seduced, and thus,
between you, virtually filing the city with rumoFs,
| and suspicious, and charges in relation 70 her,
which, Tor aught that have ever said rpublished.
| are alikc cruel and unjust have never, T. yau
or any other person, directly os indirectly, iuti-
| mated that Mrs. Coddington i the party alluded
70 BY me- and even II she be The person 70 whom