If you really want to know, if you
really are as cuurteous to us as evi
dently you like that we should be to
you, if you have the understanding
imagination by which you put your
self in another’s stead, can you not
see herein the ground upon which
the people of Georgia claimed the
right to see and read that record and
upon which Watson spread that rec
ord befort them for perusal and con
sideration?
The people of Georgia love decency
in their mailed prints quite as well
as do Pennsylvanians, they are in
every respect as decent and reason
able, but they ciaim the right to
look at the whole record, notwith
standing its indecency, when the is
sue presented to them is whether a
verdict of their court shall be sus
tained or overturned. They know
that they had the same right and
duty to look at that record that the
members of the appeal courts had
under the same circumstances.
In the Frank case Watson and his
associates and sympathizers were
standing for the supremacy of Geor
gia laws as duly administered by the
courts of the state. The instigators
of the attack on Watson were
slandering the state by charging that
it had employed the courts of the
state to mob and murder one of its
citizens. In deciding the issue raised
in that calumny the peopl eliterally
had to see that record. They exposed
the record and demonstrated that
THE: JEFFERSONIAN
the caluminators were as corrupt as
the criminal in whose behalf they
were uttering their calumnies.
