The Winchester home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1858-06-17

drawings. The lease has years TO run,
and we assure the public that VIC have
the best counsel who advises US that we
can maintain our rights against every ri.
valry in our business.
SAMUEL SWAN & CO.,
Managers Of the Sparta Academ Lot.
terry, Augusta, Ga.
The attention Of the public is also
cal ed TO the following letter from COL
o. A. LocHRANE, one Of the Attornies for
SWAN & Co.,
Macon, Ga, Juno Q, 1858.
Messrs. S. SWAN, & Co., Augusta. Co.:
Gentlemen: ! have received your letter
relative to the prosecutions against you
in Richmond Superior Court, employing
mo as counsel, and will appear in the ca.
ses for you. This | will do more heartily,
from the peculiar circumstances under
which these prosecutions were common.
ced, for see by the newspaper articles
enclosed, despicable attempt resorted
to, cut Of this State, to influence public
opinion, by means Of letters perverted to
publication, by newspaper articles, and
the ef'rontery Of New York Mayor pre-.
suming to interfere with the rights and
privileges ofthe people of Georgia. That
all this meets my unqualified disappro.
baton, need scarcely remark; and 10
assail this impudsnt dictation, this un.
mitigaled injustice in the court house OF
Richmond county, and hold it up to the
scorn Of the public, will not only be a
professional duty, but can add, per.
sonal qualification.
An interested zeal, or affected indigna.
ton against lotteries is no apology for
attempting to overwhelm men in public
opinion, without fair and impartial tri.
al, to which all are by the law constitu.
tionalIy entitled. have examined the
facts connected with the case, and feel
satisfied the opinions paraded as in(alli.
bic, are untenable, unsustained by law,
and their publication for the reason refer.
red to, un just. The lottery privilege IN.
der which you draw, was granted previ
Gus to the act Of 1888, upon which the
presentments are founded. The Iaw Of
1888, by special provso, has no applica
ton 10 lotteries previously granted. The
character Of the Sparta Academy Lottery
was granted in 1926. and thus viii fall
the presen,menls. "That it has expired
by its own limitations" as stated, deny.
and will maintain. There is no imita.
ton of time in the charter; the law ex.
pressly and unequivocally negatives such
an Inference or construction. The grant
is given to the trustees and to their sue.
cessors in office, not for any specified or
limited time, but for purpose TO raise
by lottery a specified sum Of money
The trustees Of the Academy, are now
through you affecting and concentrating
the purpose for which it was granted, and
are receiving their instruments for the
same. But these are questions for the
court and not the public TO try. We will
there meet and argue them, and, believe,
successfully and trump anIy; and the
result Of the issue will evidence, that
yerdicts written out, or manufactured,
neither suit the taste, temper, pride, indie
penlonce or intelligence of Georgia
jury, whw, being exclusive judges Of both
The law and the facts, will not hesitate in
the utlerance Of their oa0n opinions, and
tho convictions Of their own Judgment,
irrespective OF dictation from any quarter
Yours truly, 0. A. LocHRANE,
Counsellor at Law.