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finding the letter which I addressed to my father, in
which, on the evening of this day, I gave a minute
account of the events and occurrences of the day,
"
but I have not been able
quorum parva pars fui" ;
to put my hand it. upon
I have, however, a most vivid recollection of
these occurrences as I have narrated them, and no
one could have witnessed them without the convic
tion that the utmost coolness, good judgment, and
intrepidity were conspicuously exhibited by General
Lyman on that occasion, and that he fully met all
the claims upon him as the Chief Magistrate of a
great city.
BOSTON, February 1, 1870.
Now here are three persons who write of their
own prompting and without collusion, twenty years
after Mr. Lyman s death, and who never read the
private manuscript quoted above ; yet they
firm his words in a remarkable manner.
all con
In the face of this testimony, Mr. Phillips would
have us believe that this Magistrate did, in that very
hour, at some place not designated, employ servile
pleadings with these same rioters. About a matter
so distinct in itself, such opposite statements are
not to be reconciled by attributing them to faults
of memory or of hearing. Either, then, Mr. Phillips
bears false witness against his neighbor, or these
three persons have, without previous consultation,
all told exactly the same falsehood. The reader is
at liberty to render judgment on the evidence.