[The Papers of William Livingston 3:279-280]
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The Cause between Walton & Holmes is of the greatest Moment; & I hope none of the Judges have given their opinions, as you have heard respecting one before they have been judicially called upon. I should be sorry that the supposed Event of the Controversy should give the Tories any Cause of Triumph; but the Judges you know are bound to determine according to Law in whose favour soever that may appear to be, let the Consequences be what they may; & tho' the Legislature may apply a Remedy, yet those ex post facto Laws have always been considered as unfriendly to Liberty.
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