If the people will give ear a momen[t] I will address them, with few words in my own defence as touching my arest. In the first place I will state to those that can hear me that I never spent more than six months in except while in prison, while I was there I was at work for the suppor[t] of my family, I never was a prisioner of war during my stay for I had not made war, I never took a pistol, a gun, or sword & the much that has been said on this subject is false I have been willing to go before any governor Judge or tribunal where justice could be done & have the subject investigated. I could not have committed treason in that while there I had no controll any whare in temporal things while there but in spiritual I was driven from that by force of arms under the exterminating order of . I have never commited treason the people know vary well I [p. [66]]