We are not insensible of the fact that a great-grandson of Samuel Seabury, in a paper which was published in The American Quarterly Church Review, for April, 1881, without any supporting testimony which any Bench in the country would have received as evidence, in any case, undertook the ungracious tiisk of showing, by argument, that Samuel Seabury was not sincere, when he wrote the disclaimer which is now under notice ; that his words, on the matter of his alleged authorship of the political pamphlets and newspaper articles referred to, were artfully intended to mislead the General .\ssembly, beneficially to himself; and that, in fact, notwithstanding what he and others had said and written to the contrary, Samuel Seabury was really the author of the "A. W. " Farmer " tracts ! We must be excused, however, for dissenting from the conclusions of this younger member of the Seabury family, and for
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" ment. Must he be judged by the laws of Connecti- " cut, to which as an inhabitant of New York he " owed no obedience ? or by the laws of that colony "in which he has been near twenty years a resident? " or, if the regulations of Congress be attended to, " must he be dragged from the committee of his own " county, and Irom the Congress of his own province, " cut off from the intercourse of his friends, deprived " of the benefit of those evidences which may be " necessary for the vindication of his innocence, and "judged by strangers to him, to his character, and " to the circumstances of his general conduct in life?