. The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time;. ort charge to the effect that, as the defendanthad confessed the publication of the words com-plained of, the question for the jury was whetherthe words were libelous, and this being a questionof law, they might leave it to the Court. The in-tention, obviously, was to secure a special verdict;but Hamilton had been careful to impress the jurywith the necessity of bringing a verdict of notguilty, and that was what the jury did. This stirring event occu7red on the vei^y spotwhere George Washington became the first Presi-dent
. The American metropolis, from Knickerbocker days to the present time;. ort charge to the effect that, as the defendanthad confessed the publication of the words com-plained of, the question for the jury was whetherthe words were libelous, and this being a questionof law, they might leave it to the Court. The in-tention, obviously, was to secure a special verdict;but Hamilton had been careful to impress the jurywith the necessity of bringing a verdict of notguilty, and that was what the jury did. This stirring event occu7red on the vei^y spotwhere George Washington became the first Presi-dent of a free people, ivhose government wasbased on the very ideas that were put forthby the eloquent champion of the people in a haz-ardous conflict loith tyrannyand oppression. William Smith and JamesAlexander, who were debarredby the Court in this case, hadpreviously given great offenseto the governor and his im-mediate friends in their defense Rip Van Dam. . _.^. A Typical Knickerbocker. of the Cmmeut Citizen, Rip V an Dam, against the same Governor Cosby. The 48. NEW YORK CITY LIFE governor proceeded against Van Dam, who foughtback, and their controversies came before Chief-justice Lewis Morris, who dehvered an opinionin favor of Van Dam in the same old court-room. It greatly irritated Cosby, and all the moreso because Morris caused his opinion to be printedin the New York Gazette. The opinion was ac-companied with this open letter, signed by the brave judge. Qopy of fI\orris fetter. This, sir, is a copy of the paper I read incourt. I have no reason to expect that this or any-thing else I can say will be at all grateful, orhave any weight with your Excellency, after theanswer I received to a message I did myself thehonor to send to you concerning an ordinance youwere about to make for establishing a court ofequity in the Supreme Court, as being, in my opin-ion, contrary to law, and which I desired mightbe delayed till I could be heard on that head. Ithought myself within the
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