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850° X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

title, must be copied in the indictment verbatim et literatim.
I wonder you did not add e¢ punciuetin also. There is no
real variance, and there is an end of the objection. You are
mistaken. I pronounce this to be the law, and T shall in-
struct the jury, that they may find the treverser guilty of
part of the charges, and acquit him of such as are not
proved.

It is not necessary for the attorney for the United States
to make any reply, as there is no good reason to exclude the
book; all that is necessary to be done on the part of the
United States is to prove the charges to be true, and the book
called ‘The Progpect Before Us’’ is good evidence to sup-
port it?

thorities, though it is clear that in knocking it down, Jndge Chase
knocked down nearly the whole law of libels besides. Wharton’s
note to the report of the trial.

} Extracts from the pamphlet called “The Prospect Before Us,”
to show the calumnies of President Washington, by James Thomp-
son Callender.

Pages 10. “I now return to the tremor of 1787, by which the
‘government of your own choice’ the federal constitution, was
crammed down the gullet of America.”

Page 15. “They (meaning the Georgie delegates in the conven-
tion) did not foresee the Washington plan of defending, or rather
of deserting, the southwestern frontier.”

Page 16. “By his own account, therefore, Mr. Washington has
been twice a traitor. He first renounced the king of England, and
thereafter the old confederation,”

Page 17. “The following instance, out of many, shows in what
manner Mr. Washington transacted business. One question that
was to come before the cabinet, he previously asked the opinion of
Mr, Jefferson, and after hearing it, observed, that his own senti-
mente had been the same, When the council met, Hamilton and
Knox voted, as usual, upon one side, and Jefferson on the other.

“Gentlemen, I leave it to yourselves? were the words of Mr.
Washington; and the point was carried by the majority. The ex-
travagant popularity possessed by this citizen reflects the utmost
Tidieule on the discernment of America. He approved of the fand-
ing system, the assumption, the national bank, and in contradiction
to his own solemn promise (at Newburgh, March 15th, 1783), he an-
thorized the robbery and ruin of the remnants of his own army.”

Page 18, “In the fall of 1706, when the French began their
depredations, the country fell into a more dangerous juneture than