Excerpt from Report of the Trial of the Hon. Samuel Chase

The publishers have taken uncommon pains in this edition to collect all the necessary information required, in the performance of that duty they had to encounter a number of difficulties In the first place, it was impossible to calculate with precision the alterations and corrections of counsel, they not being furnished with their corrected notes until within a few days before they were severally published, and being obliged to calculate a certain quantity of pages for each argument, they have been compelled to print on smaller type in some instances, to meet the space allotted, which in a few places has obliged an unavoidable though intentional wrong numbering of pages by repetition of number, and the which is noticed by a star to each.

In the proem, they have collected all the necessary information relative to the impeachment by the house of representatives, from the committee of enquiry to the order for the appearance of the honorable respondent.

The testimony is accurately copied from Mr. Evans's notes. The arguments and opinions of counsel have been by them corrected. The arguments of the managers are literally printed from the notes of Mr. Evans, and the publishers would feel happy could they have got their notes corrected, but having purchased the notes of the trial from Mr. Evans, with the corrections of counsel, they could not legally hold a copyright in the arguments of the managers, who would be at liberty to print or give their corrected notes to any person who might please to print them. Not having intentionally committed any errors, or in any manner suffered party considerations to bias them, they hope any little inaccuracies of the press may be pardoned, to which the hurry of the work in, no small degree contributed.

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