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Jiuniiridlh part of what one of their agents stated they would make and 

 sell the current year! ! ! We would say to these " parties," as did the 

 Speaker of the Vir<^inia Mouse of Burgesses to a very modest man, 

 though he afterward attained to sonic celebrity, by always acting on 

 the principle, that "honesty is the best policy,'' "sit down Mr. 

 Washington; your great deeds arc only equalled by your modesty." 



It is comparatively an east thing, after the forest is levelled, the 

 track opened and cleared out, bridges erected, and the rails laid down, 

 for the Locomotive to fly as on " the wings of the wind," and almost 

 annihilating time and space. 



And just so with these capitalists; after long \'ears of privation 

 and perseverance in inventing and perfecting this invaluable machine, 

 and the still greater difficulties and delays are overcome, in getting it 

 introduced into use by the inventor, tJicy, with a large money capital, 

 have no difficulty in erecting "vast establishments," and selling 

 machines by thousands. Like the merciless Kite, they watch their 

 chance, and pounce down upon the innocent prey in the farm yard. 

 But "ware the farmer boy " with his rusty old firc-lock; for before 

 soaring away with his prize, the dcpv^iator may perchance find his 

 wings clipped, and his talons rendered powerless, by an unexpected 

 but well aimed shot. 



It is asserted over and over again by this " Counsel," not less than 

 three or four times, that sixty days' notice was necessary by the " rule " 

 of the board of extensions; that Hussey calls on the Co7nmissioiicr 

 personally for the first time Ten Days before the expiration of his 

 patent, and talks \\'\\.\\ him about an extension; is informed that the 

 " shortest ti/nc" for the notice is sixfi/ days; — long since adopted, and 

 that it had been previously and for years printed and circulated freely 

 by the Patent Oflice, &c. &c. But before returning this broadside, we 

 will get into close quarters, and receive another from pages 5 and 6 — 



" Rut even if he had been ignorant of the sixty days' rule, adopted by the hoard, 

 he could not have been ignorant that in a ctnintry so wide spread as this, a shorter 

 term 0/ notice, to allow those interested adversely to hear of the application, and 

 prepare their testimony for the hearing, would not be sufficient, or reasonalde, ox just 

 to the public, but would be mocking the public and individuals by the forms ol law 

 without its substance, and trampling upon their rij^lits while they were insulted by a 

 sham notice. It would be recalling the days of that tyrant who published his edicts 

 by writing them in small letters, and placing them so high in the air that people 

 could not read them, and still requiring compliance, or the consecjuences. Hussey 

 could not have intetuicd the public to have notice, and could have delaved the call on 

 the Commissioner till withing ten days oi the expiration of his patent, for no other 

 />u rpose, t\\3.n to depri^'e the public ot the means of notice, and obtain his extension 

 co7'ertty on ex-parte affidavits, while the public and those interested, were /nocked 

 and insulted, hy tci^'^at forms. I say he could not have intended to act in good faith. 

 And why — but that his pretensions would not bear the light. If he had applied /?/"/i' 

 ^/ar.? before the expiration, there might have been an appearance oi sincerity: but 

 how miserabte is the plea that he did not know the precise number of days limited by 

 the board, when he did not apply at all, and called on the conmiissioner for the first 

 time on the subject, but ten days before the expiration of the .patent! The facts 

 destroy eirry prcsumptio// of good faith. He did not intend \o allow a fair investiga- 

 tion but to stifle it, and get an extension on an ex-parte hearing, where he could 

 prove what he pleased, without danger of contradiction. 



'But again: The course pursued left no traces. Nothing appears on the record 



