CHARGES, PREFERRED BY JOHN WHITE, OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, PILOT, AGAINST HENRY CAHOONE, ESQ. LATE COMMANDER OF THE REVENUE CUTTER ACTIVE, OF THIS PORT, AND NOW COMMANDER OF THE REVENUE CUTTER ALERT, OF THE SAME PORT: TOGETHER WITH THE TESTIMONY IN SUPPORT OF THOSE CHARGES.
New York: Hopkins & Morris, 1825. 76pp. Disbound and foxed. Tear at leaf 53-54 affects about seven letters. Good to Good+. 'H.M. Western' inscribed at head of title. Henry M. Western [1797-1853], a prominent New Yorker, was a great jury lawyer and a leading advocate in criminal cases, especially capital ones. He represented cult-like religious leader Matthias [a/k/a Robert Matthews] at his murder trial in 1835, and advised freed slave and member of Matthias's flock, Isabella Baumfree, who later became known as Sojourner Truth.
"White, previously the defendant in a slander action, here reiterates a series of charges of misconduct against Cahoone, the plaintiff. The charges, which had been presented earlier without success to Congress and the Treasury Dept., include smuggling and improper disposal of a revenue cutter" [Cohen].
Cahoone had lost the slander case; White reiterates many of the allegations which had prompted that litigation.
FIRST EDITION. Cohen 11963. Sabin 103412. AI 23310 [8]. Not in Marke, Harv. Law Cat., Eberstadt. Item #32055
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