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Holograph, signed.Amos Farnsworth discusses the termination of his law case: "We shall have a hearing before the whole Bench, as it is doubtful whether the Judge instructed the jury right." Farnsworth has never had faith in judicial proceedings and will have less confidence in them hereafter. He refers to false oaths and corrupt lawyers instructing witnesses to swear falsely. Farnsworth says: "Our criminal trial comes on in June when we shall be again at the mercy of our enemies, & a jury, nine tenths of whom are prejudiced against abolitionists." Farnsworth will have to pay the entire cost for (Amos?) Bancroft and himself, as Bancroft has nothing. Farnsworth asks Anne Warren Weston if she will go to New York (to the annual meeting); he cannot go. He refers to a trip to Albany with John A. Collins and Charles L. Remond and comments: "We were in no little danger of being lynched." At an excellent meeting in Lexington, William Lloyd Garrison "went for dissolution." Farnsworth believes this measure should be debated in town and in county societies, but "it is premature for the national society now to act upon it."For the first mention of the law case involving Amos Farnsworth, see Amos Farnsworth's letter to Anne Warren Weston on April 6, 1842, Call No. Ms.A.9.2 v.17, p.48.This letter is dated April 4, 1842, above the salutation on page one. But on page four, this letter is postmarked May 6, Groton, Mass.

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