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"and shame on me for being drunk. A drunken man is no man' he has got no sense; and what I might say then, I can't say now. Perhaps I did & perhaps I didn't say what you say I said ___I can't deny nor I can't acknowledge, for I can't let myself tell a lie and I don't know what I said " ____

     On this Martin was committed to Jail; and after a severe imprisonment of 7 or 8 days, brought out by Habeas Corpus, & upon evidence that the committal was irregular, being founded on statements made in another state, -- he was discharged. 
     At the time of this foolish arrest, which was ascribed to the necessity of protecting John Ridge, Ridge was in the Georgia limits & ninety miles from the abode of Martin.