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James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 18: the Tribune and J. Fenimore Cooper. (search)
of the Courier and Enquirer, and one against Mr. Weed, Editor of the Albany Evening Journal. MMr. Weed not appearing on Monday, (the first day of court,) Cooper moved for judgment by default, as ar. Col. Webb then despatched a messenger to Mr. Weed with this information. The messenger returned with a letter from Mr. Weed, stating that his daughter lay very ill, and that he would not leave hdamages. The trial, of course, was ex-parte, Mr. Weed being absent and defenceless. Cooper's lawyee jury retired, under a strong charge against Mr. Weed from Judge Willard, and after remaining in tho say, considering that, just the day before, Mr. Weed had been choked by his counsel into surrenderdy for him–considering all this, and how much Mr. Weed has paid and must pay towards his subsistence that Fenimore's talk at this time and place of Weed's family, and of Weed himself as a man so paltWeed himself as a man so paltry that he would pretend to sickness in his family as an excuse to keep away from Court, and resort [7 more...]