Note E — THE TREASON TRIALS. (continued 2)

It is to a review of this able charge that Mr. Brent devotes more than half his pamphlet. He attempts to controvert many of the positions, and argues at length that many of them are not sound law. The character of the learned Judge for ability, and a profound knowledge of the law, is too firmly established to render a defence of his reasonings anything but a work of supererogation. It is enough to know that the charge was thought a sound one by many legal gentlemen of Philadelphia, who took no other than a professional view of it. Mr. Brent’s differences may have resulted from a foregone conclusion.