_Mr. Dana._ I object to these questions as matter of right. I am not obliged to answer them. But, personally, I have no objection to answering them. _Mr. Lunt._ I think it would be a satisfaction to the community to know from yourself how the matter stands as to these meetings. _Mr. Dana._ On that ground, I have no objections to answering. I did not speak at this meeting, for reasons of my own. For the same reasons I did not attend the second meeting. I wrote a set of resolutions, which I believe were adopted. These I am ready to stand or fall by. _The Commissioner._ I read them. They were unexceptionable. _Mr. Dana._ Unexceptionable in a legal view; but your Honor could not agree to the opinions expressed. After the meeting had adjourned, as I was informed, (and as it was stated in the papers,) a resolution was put, and declared by the crowd to be passed, but it was irregular and not noticed by the officers. That resolution was objectionable, in my opinion. But in none of the meetings or consultations I have attended, have any of the gentlemen recommended or suggested use of force against the law. The private meetings have related to the use of legal defences and modes of raising and presenting constitutional questions, and have been composed of lawyers, almost, if not quite, exclusively. The opinions of the defendant, so far as I know, are the same as mine. He believes the act unconstitutional and unjust, and will give it no voluntary aid, but will not recommend or join in forcible violations of it. I am willing to say this, since we have got upon the subject, although it is not testimony. _Charles H. Brainard._ I have heard Mr. Byrnes' reputation for truth and veracity spoken of, but not until these trials had commenced. _Charles C. Conley._ Had heard Mr. Byrnes' truth, &c., spoken against for some time back. _Charles Mead_ examined on same point, but did not testify definitely. _Mr. Dana to Mr. Lunt._ It was in the lobby that I saw Chief Justice Shaw in relation to the habeas corpus. I came into the court room and reported the result to the counsel. It was after the proceedings before the Commissioner were over. _To Mr. Davis._ My impression is that I saw some of the crowd enter the door on the west side of the building after I heard the yell in the Court-House. Mr. Dana here proposed to put in the testimony given by Mr. Davis on the examination of Mr. Wright, on the ground that the government had asked Mr. Clark whether he heard Mr. Davis's testimony in Mr. Wright's case, and he had stated a portion of it. Mr. Lunt objected. Mr. Dana said the government had put it in either as conversation or as confession. In either case the defendant was entitled to the whole of it, under the general principles of evidence. _The Commissioner._ You may put in all that part of Mr. Davis's testimony which concerns the statement of transactions which Mr. Clark testified that Mr. Davis said, but no more.