New York weekly journal; Zenger, John Peter, 1697-1746
For the late Chief Justice 231
Quakers 38
In all 269
For William Forster 151
The difference 118
269
So that the late Chief Justice carried it by a great majority without
the Quakers.
The indentures being sealed, the whole body of electors waited on their
new Representative to his lodgings with trumpets sounding and violins
playing; and in a little time took their leave of him. Thus ended the
Westchester election, to the general satisfaction.
_New York, November 5._
On Wednesday the 31st of October the late Chief Justice, but new
Representative for the County of Westchester, landed in this city about
five o’clock in the evening at the ferry stairs. On his landing he was
saluted by a general fire of the guns from the merchant vessels lying in
the road; and was received by great numbers of the most considerable
merchants and inhabitants of this city, and by them, with loud
acclamations of the people as he walked the streets, conducted to the
Black Horse Tavern, where a handsome entertainment was prepared for him
at the charge of the gentlemen who received him. In the middle of one
side of the room was fixed a tabulet with golden capitals, _KING GEORGE,
LIBERTY AND LAW_.
Appendix II
Zenger’s Lawyers on the Behavior of His Judges
James Alexander and William Smith, disbarred for their exceptions to
the commissions of the two Justices of the Supreme Court, won
reinstatement in their practice after an appeal to the legislature.
Their appeal was printed by Peter Zenger under the title, _The
Complaint of James Alexander and William Smith to the Committee of the
General Assembly of the Colony of New York_ (1735). Here is the
centerpiece of their argument:
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