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and all is at Peace! If this idea of a "secret alliance" is not really 

 and truly a "sublime conception," it is simply ridiculous. 



It may be that they huve been in some sort ri\als in Reapin<,f the 

 golden harvest fields of the South, the Iv'ist, and the fertile prairies of 

 the j;reat West; and we believe they have even crossed the broad At- 

 lantic to exhibit tiieir prowess and skill, and "asttjnish the natives" on 

 English soil. Hut we ne\'er before heard of an\' " secret alliance," any 

 conspiracy to rob others, and then " to share the s[)oils." 



Nor have we yet heard that any one of these " parties in the State 

 of New York " represented their country at the " World's Fair in 

 London;" or have added a particle to the wide spread fame and re- 

 nown acquired there for American ingenuity and inventive talent, that 

 swept over this continent with liij^htninjr speed, and was hailed with 

 delii;ht, and with feelini^s of national pride, from one end of the Union 

 to the other. 



Where 7C77r these " parties in the State of New York " all this time, 

 with their "valuable improvements on Hussey's patent." when the 

 London Times and other kindred prints were jeering and taunting us 

 with sending " tread mills " and " fl}'ing machines " to the " Exhibition 

 of the Industry of all Nations?" 



Were they engaged in concocting this scheme to deprive an honest 

 inventor of his honestly acquired and legal rights? Or were they not 

 employed in adding to the aforesaid " millions " by " springing the 

 trap" in the shape of '' hhick z//^?'//" on a poor brother inventor and 

 manufacturer, who was compelled to earn his daih- bread by the sweat 

 of his brow? 



If the learned " counsel " has had much practice in Courts of 

 Law, he must be aware, that a " Tt7/>'/r.f5 " may sometimes prove too 

 much; or in attempting to prove one thing a little too strong, he may 

 prove quite the opposite. As he appears to have quite a fancy to 

 "cross-examine witnesses," we will bring him on the stand: this is cer- 

 tainly fair, for he has gi\en in his "testimony in open court;" and as 

 this witness has completely failetl \.o prove any thing for " parties in the 

 .State of New York," perhaps he may prove something for a poor 

 patentee — " who is now a man advanced in years," and who " has be- 

 come the cat's-paw of a more designing and grasping man." The^^tv/- 

 ero2(s. delight in succouring the aged and oppressed. 



" Teach me to feel another's woe, 

 And /ii(/e the fault I see; 

 That nii'/rv I to others show, 

 17iai mercy show to me." 



Does a Plaintiff — a poor man for instance, in an action at common law 

 against a /iiillio/iaire, lose his " inchoate right," if the case is in litiga- 

 tion for " six years?" or for six times six years, and subject to all the 

 glorious uncertainties of the law, b\' the management of cunning, or 

 the neglect of lazy "counsel?" Is not the entry on the Docket or 

 " yournar' prima-facie evidence that the case was neither " carefully 

 concealed," nor "abandoned?" Would the learned gentleman con- 

 sider it even handed justice to lose his just debt, because the clerk of 



