satisfy the people, we had better go before another Magistrate, who was not in our . In accordance with his advice we went before , with whom you are well aquainted, both parties were present, witnesses were called on both sides; the case was fully investigated, and we were again dismissed, and what is this pretended desire to enforce law, and these lying, base rumors put into circulation for; but to seek through mob influence, and under pretence of law, to make us submit to requisitions that are contrary to law and subversive of every principle of justice? And when you, sir, required us to come out here, we came, not because it was legal; but because you required it of us, and we were desirous of showing to you, and to all men that we shrunk not from the most rigid investigation of our acts. We certainly did expect other treatment than to be immured in a jail, at the instance of these men; and I think, from your plighted faith, we had a right to after disbanding our own forces and putting ourselves entirely in your hands; and now, after having fulfilled my part, Sir, as a man and an American Citizen, I call upon you, , and think that I have a right to do so, to deliver us from this place and rescue us from this outrage that is sought to be practised upon us by a set of infamous scoundrels.