I have got a copy of Jackson's affidavit which I should like to show you.

There never was a more finished specimen of wholesale lying than is contained in it.

He is certainly a monomaniac; no other conclusion could save him from an indictment for perjury.
"By the Frankfort paper sent you last week, and the extract I now send you, you can give a very effective shot to the 'Tribune.' It is, perhaps, worthy of remark that, while all the papers in New York were so forward in publishing a _false_ account of O'Reilly's success in the Frankfort case, not one that I have seen has noticed the decision just given at Louisville _against_ him in every particular.

This shows the animus of the press towards me.

Nor have they taken any pains to correct the false account given of the previous decision." Although no longer President of the National Academy of Design, having refused reelection in 1845 in order to devote his whole time to the telegraph, Morse still took a deep interest in its welfare, and his counsel was sought by its active members.