Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-09-21
Police Court.

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Septr 20, 1854
Commonwealth IS. Tho. s. Hathaacay This
was case Of perjury growing out of a civil
cause tried before John A. Dana Esq, in
which the validity of mortgage of personal
property from Dr. A. w. Van Alstin to the
defendant was brought i'll question, and which
was material to the issue in the case.
Justice Dana testified that on or about the
22d day of Jan. 1858, in trial of civil suit
before him, Hathaway swore that he loaned
| DIR. Van Alstin $500. That he borrowed
! 1910 of the sum of A. ]. Crossman, and
made up the balance from his own money p.
| c. Bacon Esq. and G. T. Very ESQ.,, were
called to the same point and testified that de-
fendant swore before Justice Dana, in sub
stance as above repeated.
The mortgage was produced by the District
Attorney and the execution Of it proved by l..
a. MAYNARD Esq, also it was proved by the
! same testimony that no consideration in mon
, ey was given at the time of its delivery. A
receipt N full for all demands executed by the
defendant to Dr. Van Alstin, and dated Jan.
22 1858, was also put into the case.
DR.. Van Alstin testified that he left Worces-
ter for New York, Jan. 22d, 1858, that the
mortgage given to Il. was not for money adj
vanced, and that II. did not loan him cent
of money as consideration or otherwise and
him.
Mrs. Van Alstn testified to admissions of
defendant at four separate times, that he did
not loan the DR.. any money, or furnish linn
with any means whatever.
Miss Ann p Richardson testified to four
different conversations with delft, in which
he had stated the mortgage was without con-
sideration. That he did not loan the DR.. any
money previous to his leaving for Australia.
and stated that he (deft) should fix the books
so the mortgage should be good against the
creditors of the Dr., and show good consid-
Grafton, if any attachment should be made
by them.
No evidence was introduced for defence,
and the deft. was bound over in $1,000 to APP
pear at the next term of Criminal Court.
SLAVE TREATY WITH ENGLAND.-The Bos-
ton Transcript says We have been ggeatly
surprised to find several influential journals
at Ithe South gravely argue the expediency
and necessity of new treaty with Great
Britain and her Colonies in which the main
features of the Fugitive Slave Law should be
incorporated. How any person at all familiar
with the English mind, and aware at what
period of the Christian Era we are living,
should undertake to argue this point, and
gravely set out to anticipate and remove the
objections that would at once arise in oppo-
sition to the arrangement, must surely be
chargeable to some idiosyncrasv. The man
who should suggest that the Mormon Bible
be usei in the schools of Massachusetts, in
stead of the Sacred Scriptures, would prob
ably meet with about as much success as will
be attained by those who have started this
moyement.-The New York Albion doubtless
expresses the general and universal senIi-
ment of the people of England upon the sub
ject, when it says:
"Such Treaty as the one suggested, can
never under any possible circumstances, be
extorted from Great Britain. 1t would be
secuted out of the Cabinet and out of Parh.
ament, and repudiated by the entire voice of
Press and People. There would be no argu-
ment upon it. 1t would not be considered as
open for discussion. You might as well pro-
pose here a return to the Colonial servitude of
century ago, as talk in England of any
such Extradtion. This is simple truth, mat
ter of fact, incontrovertible and unnlterable.
If any section Of the South think otherwise,
or rely upon the particular conjunction of
affairs, it will waste its time and its breath.
The point is one of feeling; it is ingrained in
the national mind, and is not to be affected
by appeals to conviction or interest. Not even
threatened loss of the cotton trade, or the
hazard of a war with the United States, would
change the popular will hereon. The long
and the short Of it is this; any hope of Great
! Britain being induced to adopt the Fugitive
Slave Law in her Colonies may be dismissed
! forthwith and forever