J.B.Winters sat (at first) near the door, and began his remarks essentially as follows: "I have come here to exact of you a retraction, in black and white, of those damnably false charges which you have preferred against me in that---infamous lying sheet of yours, and you must declare yourself their author, that you published them knowing them to be false, and that your motives were malicious." "Hold, Mr.Winters.

Your language is insulting and your demand an enormity.

I trust I was not invited here either to be insulted or coerced.

I supposed myself here by invitation of Mr.Lynch, at your request." "Nor did I come here to insult you.

I have already told you that I am here for a very different purpose." "Yet your language has been offensive, and even now shows strong excitement.