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JAMES THOMPSON CALLENDER.

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the handwriting of Mr. Callen-
der; have seen Mr. Callender
write; Mr. Callender once took
the debates in the House of As-
sembly for me,

(The book and manuseript
sheets were compared, and found
to correspond.)

Meriwether Jones. Had never
yvead the book till after the pre-
sentment was made, except a few
passages, aud perhaps about thir-
ty-three pages; not a word of it
was printed af my office, thoogh
I sold aome of the copies for the
benefit of Mr, Callender; I onl;
possessed one copy, and which
found where Mr, Callender gen-
erally kept his papers; whenever
T sold any of the books, Mr. Cal-
lender received the money; I kept
4 memorandum of the money re-
eeived thet I might know how
tmaueh T owed him; could not posi~
tively say whether Mr. Callender
was the author of the book or
not; he had never told mo he was,
though T have my opinion and
belief on the subject; had pub-
lished proposals to print the
book, and, afterwards I had them
for sale, but do not recollect
whether I published that I had
them for sale for the benefit of
Mr. Callender; though the fact
‘was £0; the strongest proof I had
of Mr, Callender being the au-
thor, was a conversation with him
respecting that part of the book
where, speaking of Washington
and Adams, it used the term pol-
troons; Mr, Callender said he al-
Tuded to some who had reosived

appointments from them, and not
to themselves.

Thos, Nicholson, Mr. Callen-
der called at my house to engage
me to publish a part of the book;
could not do it then; called on
me the next day, accompanied by
Mr. Meriwether Jones, for whom
I was then engaged to print; Mr.
Jones told me that T might ens-
pend his work, which I was then
engaged in, to do Mr. Callen-
der’s; printed seven pages of the
book; Mr, Callender paid me for
it

John Dizon. Printed the
greatest part of the book (about
120 pages) at the request of Mr.
Lyon; Mr. Callender corrected
the proof sheet.

Jas, Lyon. Did not know that
Mr, Callender was the author of
the book, but knew him to be the
publisher of it, jointly with my-
self; probably (but did not recol-
lest certainly), had furnished
Mr. Rind with the copy of the
book; Mr, Callender corrected
the sheets from the press; never
saw Mr. Callender writing, but
supposed, from having seen the
manuseript, and some writing
which was (said to be) written
by ‘him, that he wrote it,

Samuel Pleasants. Had sold
copies of this book; the books
were sent to me from the book-
binder, for Mr, Callender; re-
ceived both the money and the
subscription papers for him, and
paid him the money received;
sold, perhaps, a hundred eopies.

Mr. Nelson pointed to the jury the passages in ‘‘The Pros
pect Before Us’? corresponding with the charges in the in-

dictment.
Mr. Hay.

I conceive that this book cannot be adduced in evi-

dence, in support of the charges stated in the indictment. Perhaps

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