t
is well understood in this place that he has stated he should
feel bound by his oath of office to endeavor to obtain an
indictment against any gentleman who should attempt to call
him to account. Shielded behind his oath of office he has
displayed his character by childish boasts of personal courage
and idle threats of vengeance.

STEPHEN J. FIELD.
MARYSVILLE, _Dec. 21st, 1850_.

There were also annexed to the publication of Turner, letters from
different persons expressive of their opinion of his general bearing
on the bench and courtesy to them. Among these was one from John T.
McCarty, the candidate against me at the recent election, in which he
spoke in high terms of the Judge's conduct on the bench, and assailed
me as his calumniator, applying to me sundry coarse epithets. In
answer to this letter I published in the Herald the following card:

JOHN T. MCCARTY.

John T. McCarty, in a letter to Judge William E. Turner, dated
the 22d of November, takes occasion to apply several vile
epithets to myself, and uses the following language to Judge
Turner: "Having been present at the first term of your court
ever held in this district, and most of your courts since that
time, and being familiar with almost every decision and your
entire conduct upon the bench, I take pleasure in saying that
I never have practiced before any court where there was so
great a dispatch of business, so much order and general
satisfaction rendered by the rules and decisions of the court,
and that, notwithstanding the base denunciations of your
enemies, a large majority of the people who have attended your
courts approve and sustain your positions and decisions."

During the session of the District Court, at its first term,
this same John T. McCarty was called before the County Judge
to give his testimony on the return of a writ of _habeas
corpus_, and then he testified "_that the conduct of Judge
Turner on the bench was the most outrageous he had ever
witnessed in any court in which he had practiced;" and the
tenor and effect of his whole testimony was in the highest
degree condemnatory of the conduct of Judge Turner_.

One of two things follows: If the statement in the letter be
true, then John T. McCarty was guilty of perjury before the
County Judge; but if he testified to the truth, then his
stat