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with a black man in a bad house, and he worried her out and
had a connection with her. Very good. Shortly afterwards
she acoffled, or fit, aa she termed it, with a white man, and
knocked off his hat, but he afterwards came to bed with his
hat, and had a connection with her. Did you cry catt No,
sir, What then did you do? I bade him be quiet! Well!
where is the difference, except in this, that the white man had
no hat upon his head? Will it be contended, now, on the au-
thority of any treatise upon generation, that a man cannot
get a child without & hat upon his headf Here I might say,
without indiscretion, your Honors have experience to the
contrary. No well bred man would think of going to bed to
a lady with a hat on; if he did, she would do well to knock it
off. If he was so much afraid of catching cold, he might have
put on his night cap. To be sure, if he be of the society of
friends, it alters the case, because then it might be an in-
convenience; but could not be considered an incivility—bat
there is no evidence of that.

Besides this, the evidences of Alderman Barker and Mr.
O'Blenis, shows that she has contradicted herself upon oath,
for, before them she swore she had no conneetion with a white
man, Here before this Court she admits, when upon oath,
that she had. She admitted, it is true, before those magix
trates, after her depositions were given in, that she had a
scuffle with the white man, and that he tore her petticoat;
‘but that does not reeoncile the contradiction upon cath. Tear-
ing a petticoat is not having a connection ; nor is it to be sup-
posed that all the passions with which that white man was
influenced, were to be allayed by the small satisfaction of
tearing her petticoat, Where there are Helens there will be
wars; but the most quarrelsome will not fly to arms for the
sake of tearing petticoats. I defy all the annals of pathology
to show a case of a man affected with such an antipathy to
petticoats. But it may be said one of those scuffles waa more
platonic than the other. I do not believe that. The one wor-
ried, and the other fit. Platonic love does not carry pistols,
nor jump into bed with its hat on, Such scuffles may differ