0(1 A REVIEW. 



■' I think 1 may safely say that the extension of this patent would 

 be w ithoLit a parallel in the annals of extensions. 1 am familiar with 

 the subject of patents, but have no recollection of a single case 

 of extension, where the thing patented was in extensive use, and had 

 been public property for six years before the extension. The law 

 presumes that, in fourteen years of exclusive possession, any inventor 

 is properly rewarded, and an extension can never be granted under 

 the spirit of our patent laws, in eqiurl justice to other inventors, 

 except in extraordinary cases. The presumptions are all against the 

 patentee, who has enjoyed fourteen years of monopoly, and cannot 

 properly be set aside by ex-parte affidavits and statements, where 

 the party has skulked the tribunal provided by law, and refused 

 to subject his case to the scrutiny which it prescribes, but creeps 

 quietly and unobserved to the committee room, with no notice 

 to those whose rights he is attempting stealthily to invade. 



" Mr. Hussey is now a man advanced in years. — His character was 

 long since formed, and we may easily judge from his past what he would 

 be likely to do, left to the promptings of his own mind, at the present 

 time. The fact that he has so long concealed his intention to obtain 

 an extension, proves conclusively that he would not now ask it, unless 

 he has been setting a trap for manufacturers, or has become the cat's 

 paw of a more designing and grasping man; and in either case, I 

 respectfully submit, that his petition should be promptly rejected and 

 dismissed. — If the case had possessed commanding merit, it would at 

 the proper time, have been laid before the tribunal which Congress in its 

 justice, liberality, and providence, has long since established for the 

 extension of patents, where the inventor has, without fault or neglect, 

 failed to obtain the remuneration to which he is reasonably entitled. 

 This Hussey has omitted to do, and the presumptions from this omis- 

 sion and delay are irresistible." 



The learned " counsel " very gravely states, " I was not a zvitness to 

 any secret arrangement between Hussey and McCormick;" yet he 

 charges, and attempts to prove, without producing a single witness 

 what is in itself an absolute absurdity, and by his own showing; that 

 because McCormick " after years of labor before Congress, finding 

 that he cannot get an extension for his worthless patent, is now at 

 Washington pulling the wires, and working for Hussey;" and " has 

 prompted in the most quiet manner the extension of his patent; the 

 opposite of damnins; ivitJi faint praise, glorifying by faint opposition," 

 in order that he, the veritable Cyrus H. McCormick, the "compiler of 

 McCormick's Reaping Machine, with a quarter of a million of dollars, 

 which he has made out of his compilation of other men's inventions," 

 the man "to trample on all subsequent inventors and manufacturers, 

 as he has been for years striving to do, by an extension of his old 

 patent of 1834, which is good for nothing else," may " Xcwy black mail" 

 on these parties in the State of New York, out of Hussey 's patent! 

 His great rival too, at the " World's Fair in London," and " the two 

 parties who have always had adverse interests." 



So it would seem, the Lion docs actually lie down with the La?nb, 



