But with Judge Turner I have not yet done. I have a long story still
to relate with respect to him. After my election to the Legislature
was ascertained, he became exceedingly solicitous to prevent in
advance my exerting any influence in it. He expected that I would
attack him, and endeavor to secure his impeachment, and he wanted
to break me down if possible. He accordingly published a pamphlet
purporting to be a statement of the charges that I preferred against
him, which was, however, little else than a tirade of low abuse of
myself and the editor of the Marysville Herald, in the columns of
which the conduct of the Judge had been the subject of just
criticism and censure. There was nothing in the miserable swaggering
billingsgate of the publication which merited a moment's notice, but
as in one passage he stated that he had attempted to chastise me
with a whip, and that I had fled to avoid him, I published in the
Marysville Herald the following card:

A CARD.

Judge William E. Turner, in a "statement" published over his
signature on the 12th instant, asserts that he attempted to
chastise me with a switch, and that I fled to avoid him. This
assertion is a _shameless lie_. I never, to my recollection,
saw Judge Turner with a switch or a whip in his hand. He has
made, as I am informed, many threats of taking personal
vengeance on myself, but he has never attempted to put any of
them into execution. I have never avoided him, but on the
contrary have passed him in the street almost every day for
the last four months. When he attempts to carry any of his
threats into execution, I trust that I shall not forget, at