CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9] — Page 335

The At Hoüble R. Cardwell

to

Mr Mercer

Houstons, 25 Sept. 1865-

2 Inclosures

N.141.

Peceived

of the Secretary of State for a M. Ivey to the address

Transmitting letter from

the Colonics

X

Received 20 th Sght 1865–

WHa

Sir

all

Monyking 331

At September 1865

I have to bring

to

your

notice

two cases in which justice was not only denied

of the Law Courts of this Colony but

me in one

in which

my

- oath was treated with public contempt although I respectfully subunit that written testimony was in the hands of the judge which went far to corroborate my testimony and fully to rebut the evidence of my adversary, was treated as Cospel and on which

which. alone and un.

supported I was cast out of

baurt with contempt .

Here my complaint confined. to what I might deem a failure of Justice I should only feel pecuniarily affected and should of course submit. But my oath was treated as dust in the balance against that of my adversary although the document in the hands of the Caut proved that I spoke the truth and that he did not.

The Right

This surely is a phase of

remedy

Surisprudence which meints a

ight Honorable Edward Bardwell bey M. P. Dr. B. M. Secretary of State

for the Colonies.

There

is

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