The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-04-04
April 2, 1857.

PTBhabf GudThCteT.
THoS. W. CLAGETT.
April 2, 1857.
MEssSs. EprroRs: am requested by Col.
Ciagett to state the facts connected with the
trial OF criminal cause over which he pre-
sided, at the late term in Louisa county. The
Colonel occupied the bench at my request,
and during the trial, Of course, myself was
holding court below, in the County Judges
ONCE, and was not present when the unim-
portant occurrence should have taken place
between himself and Mr.. Phelps, who con-
Quoted the defense. Mr.. Phelps detailed to
me the substance of the following facts, as
recollect them, to- wit that whilst he was
cross-examining the prosecuting witness, the
occupant Of the bench, without objection on
the part of the States Attorney, interposed
and arrested the examination, upon the
ground that it was irrelevant. Mr.. Phelps
insisted that the testimony was proper, and
commenced taking bill of exceptions /; af.
forwards some explanations were made be-
tween the Court and the attorney, BY
which they better understood themselves, and
the examination progressed. | did not un-
derstand that they had any disagreement be-
yond this, which is not an uncommon occur
renee IN Court.
Il. P. LOWE.
As to Col. Clagctt's complaint that we
refused to publish for him without compen-
sstion. We own our paper, and make our
Living by it. We are as much entitled to
compensation for the services we render an
individual as any mechanic. manufacturer or
professional man. We do not expect Clag-
EFT to attend 10 lawsuit for us without his
lee, nor any other man to render us service
IN the line OF his business without due CON-
pensation. We often bestow newspaper ia
vors on our friends, bu. Clage,t stands in
such relation to this Office as entities him to
no special gratuities of this kind. Besides
Clageit IL habitually mean with mechanic.
who perform service for him, and sometime.
even puts them TO the necessity Of going
10 law with him to get their pay. We Xix.
to teach such men wholesome lessons, and
show them that their social relations with or,
treyedr old drtsfooracy, and the "chivalry''
Of which they boast, has no terror to ssco,r" u.
down.
now, as TO our statement the other dny,
and Judge loves card. What, according
TO both, did happen at the Louisa Court
Clagett was called 10 tie bench, and sm;s.
understanding as it seems from Judye
loves card, arose between counsel and
Cinget', who interposed when he had no
business to. We called ii "a quarrel, in
our paragraph. The difference seems to be
that the Judge very genteelly and politely, as
becomes gentleman Of refined manners and
kindly sympathies, designases us a mlsup.
derssandining what in our plain. blunt
way We called quarrel
Judge loves card saws nethtn~ - ~ -
feet Of that misunderstanding. Oar para.
graph vent on to say that Claget. lost two
hundred votes, amongst whom were two
prominent lawyers Of Darlington, Phelps
and Tracy.
In justice to Mr.. Darwin, whom the
7im0, and Clagett on the street, charge
with the authorship Of that statement, We
feel called upon to cay that Mr.. Beck and
Mr.. Darwin were both in our Office during
that day, and both, we believe, as was per-
fectly natural, had something TO say abou,
il, but We did not think Of publishing it I'M
I'll In the evening Judge Lowe called into the
ONCE and confirmed the story, with the spe-
sial statement that he had heard in Burling-