time, and being familiar with almost every decision and your
entire conduct upon the bench, I take pleasure in saying that
I never have practiced before any court where there was so
great a dispatch of business, so much order and general
satisfaction rendered by the rules and decisions of the court,
and that, notwithstanding the base denunciations of your
enemies, a large majority of the people who have attended your
courts approve and sustain your positions and decisions."

During the session of the District Court, at its first term,
this same John T. McCarty was called before the County Judge
to give his testimony on the return of a writ of _habeas
corpus_, and then he testified "_that the conduct of Judge
Turner on the bench was the most outrageous he had ever
witnessed in any court in which he had practiced;" and the
tenor and effect of his whole testimony was in the highest
degree condemnatory of the conduct of Judge Turner_.

One of two things follows: If the statement in the letter be
true, then John T. McCarty was guilty of perjury before the
County Judge; but if he testified to the truth, then his
statement in the letter is false. In the one case he is a liar
and in the other a perjured scoundrel. Thus convicted out of
his own mouth, his vile epithets respecting myself are not
worth a moment's consideration.

STEPHEN J. FIELD.
MARYSVILLE, _Dec. 21st, 1850_.