Excerpt from An Address, Entitled, for Convenience, an Old Matter in a New Phase, or a Bird's-Eye Peep Behind the Scenes: Where (the Rule and Not the Exception) Is: "No Punishment but for Already Punished Innocence, and No Safety but for Triumphant Crime"Dr. Vason, the writer, suffered imprisonment, in close confine ment in said so called Asylum, three years and three and two thirds months, - having been Kidnapped, first, in Tuskegee, Ala, (where he had formerly, before that time resided, for nearly a quarter of a while sojourning there, on a visit from Geor gia, to close up his business matters, preparatory to his permanent abode and location in Atlanta, Ga., and confined in the common pri son of Macon county, Ala., for about forty days, (making, in all, three (3) years and five (5) months of imprisonment.) The time and date of imprisonment in Alabama being from 20111 February to 27th March, 1867, under edict of Judge of Probate Court of said Macon county, Ala., at special term, held from 13th to 26th Feb ruary, 1867, noon at night, eight days being consumed in that celebrated and ever-memorable Trial of Dr. Vason, charged with insanity, &c., Said trial and proceedings were precipitated and instituted by a band of hase and infamous scum of the earth, of Satan's cohorts, a lea-lilacs klan raid upon the old anatomy of Dr. Vason, his goods and his spirit, animus, or mental faculty, &c., and conceived under circumstances of the most diabolical cruelty, by an Anti-type of the great Arch fiend himself, in proprice personoe the father of all lies, iniquity, &c., Afterward, Dr. V. Was kidnapped as above, in the Georgia Lunatic Asylum, having been conveyed, in chains, in charge of common malefactors, to im~ press quasi appearance of conviction of insanity upon all beholders, from said prison in Alabama to said prison near Milledgeville, Ga.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.