Excerpt from A Full and Accurate Report of the Trial for Riot: Before the Mayor's Court of Philadelphia, on the 13th of October, 1831, Arising Out of a Protestant Procession on the 12th of July, and in Which the Contending Parties Were Protestants and Roman Catholics; Including the Indictments, Examination of Witness Counsel for the Protestants - David Paul Brown, Joseph R. Ingersoll, and H. Hubbell, Esquires. Counsel for Roman Catholics - Geo. M. Dallas, Wm. Sampson, (who was special, from New York, ) and W. W. Haly, Esquires. A short discussion took place between the respective counsel, as to which trial should take precedence; when the Court directed that against the Protestants should be first gone into. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.