and Bunce may have _another press set up by his side_ in less
than six months--That he [the said Judge] should withdraw his
support from him, and said that it was best for every one to
do the same, and then his press would fall of course.' And at
the same time said, that he had rather _support the federal
press at the Springs_ than the _Journal_. Shortly after this
I informed Mr. Bunce of the above conversation at his
office.'--JONATHAN WESTCOTT. _Milton, March 14th 1816_."

Young and Thompson made similar declarations of their intention to get
another press about the same time, with which they have been often
charged, and it seems thought best not to hazard a denial in the
book--therefore no other certificate but the one relating to Child's
has been procured--And the judge's conduct would have been more
christian-like, had he written a letter exculpating the editor of the
Journal from an undeserved odium cast upon him by his authority, than
thus to have given it confirmation and support, at the same time
knowing it to be _untrue_.

Of a piece with this however, appears to have been his previous conduct
about the time of his presiding over the _abortion_ at McBains. I
allude to his sending the history of that meeting with orders by
Thompson and Stillwell, to the editor of the Journal to print without
reading it.

"I Lyman B. Langworthy, of the village of Ballston Spa, do
certify to my fellow-citizens the following facts;--That on
the night of the 20th April 1815, two days after the McBain
meeting--being in the office of the Saratoga Journal late in
the evening, James Thompson, James Merrill and Wm. Stillwell,