The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-05 00:00:00

TO THE PEOPLE,

When I get Costello and Warren out, 1 may return and
make ninety spackle in ninety cities in ninety days, to
the cry of —Down with the Politicians and up with the
People. Down with British manufactures and up with
American Industry. Down with gold for Alabama Bond-
holders, and up with Greenbacks and High Wages. Down
with Whisky Ili.tgs aml Whisky Candidates, awl up with
the following Platform of the Revolution: -
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. —AMERICA V. EUROPE.

Gold, a; our cotton, for sale, Greenbacks for money.
An American system of Finance. American produc:s and
labour free. Foreign manufactures prohibited. Open
doors to artisans and immigrants. Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans for American Steamships and Shipping. Now
York tho financial centre of the world. Wall Street
emancipation from Bank of England, or American Cash
for American Bills. The Credit Fonder and Mob;lier
System, or Capital mobilised to resuscitate the South and
our mLing interests, and to people the country from ocean
to ocean, from Omaha tolSau Francisco. More organized
Labour, more Cotton, more Gold and Silver Bullion to
sell to foreigners at the highobt prices. Ten Millions of
naturalized Citizens Demand a Penny Ocean •Stamp, to
strengthen the brotherhood of labour. It Congress vote
Ono Hundred and Twenty-five Millions for a standing
Army and Freedmen's Bureau for the Blacks, cannot they
spare One Million for the Whites?
Americans, I am going to the White House—jump in
and ride.

Circumstances may change my plans. To-day I hold
the balance of power. If I cannot be king, I will ba king-

maker. All I have to do is to carry Pennsylvania against
the Democrats, and they are lost. Ilfive they forgotten
Chicago in 1861 ? Do they still think I will allow the
Irish to be fooled again—sold out to the high3st bidder
—making Fenians wear English clothes by their geld and
Free-trade Platform-?

AN INFAMOUS PERSECUTION OF AN AMERICAN CITIZEN.
P.S.—lf you thought Judge Keogh's decision unfair,
what do you say to this? After getting the documents
ordered by the Judge certifying that I had paid the debt
long ago, the Court refuses to receive the affi lavit because
the Venetians do not use insolvent court paper !
(To the Editor of Saunders's New3-Letter.).
Sir,—llaving been imprisoned five months for a debt
which I have paid pound for pound, the Court, in adjourn-
ing my case sine die, gave permission to appear on produc-
ing certain documents, if procurable, and hiving received
affidavit from the lawyer, who is now in Europe, who
paid tho claim on which I was arrested, duly sworn before
the British Consul in Venice, Italy, the following letter is
the result of my application to-day, which leaves me no
chance of redress during tho long vacation :
Offices, 9, Capel-street, Dublin,
July 25, 1808.
Sir,—Representing Mr. Rynd, your solicitor in the in-
solvency proceedings, I waited on the Chief Clerk this
morning, and tendered him the affidavit of Mr. Clark Bell.
the solicitor who pad Mr. M'llenry the Ebbw Val Corn-
ptuy's claim, being the debt fur which you aro now detained;
and although I montionod to the Chief Clerk that your ob-
ject in tendering this affidavit was in order that it might be
in time to make application for your discharge on Wednes-
day next, that being the last day that Judge Miller would
sit, pending the long vacation—in other words, until Nov.
next, which application would be grounded on thoaffidavit
then presented to him—the chief clerk, in the most
peremptory manner, refused to receive the affidavit on the
files of the court, on the grounds that same was not written
on the paper prescribed by the rules of the Court.—l am,
sir, yours most respectfully,
George F. Train, Esq.

PHILIP WDONAGII.

Thanking you for correcting the report of my case in the
Consolidated Chamber, perhaps you will be so kind as to
publish this. GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN.

SALEM WITCHCRAFT.

(From the Anglo •American Times.)
Such evidence as that recorded in our last issue
could not be considered sufficient to hang this lady

of high repute, by any jury ;—she, the ornament of
their church, the glory of their village and of its

society. We have lately seen a strong outside agi-
tation in America against a verdict of Not Guilty
given by a high court fully qualified to judge ; but
let the country glance at the Salem case, and learn
how competent are a prejudiced people —liable to ex-
travagant manias—to upset the decisions of a legal
tribunal. The jury Acquitted Goody Nurse, but the
clamour raised by the crowd, the howls and
struggles of the " afflicted," compelled judges
and jury to review the decision. The Chief
Justice pointed out a phrase of the prisoner's
which might signify .that she was one in guilt
as in jeopardy with the accused gang. She had
used the words " of our company," which she after-
wards declared to be a mere allusion to her fellows as

prisoners in company with herself, and being hard
of hearing and full of grief, nor knowing how her
words had been taken by the court, she offered no

explanation, and her silence settled the question,
for the foreman considering these words a principal

evidence, turnel against her. Still, it seethed too

monstrous to hang the venerable lady, and the go-
vernor reprieve.l her on the ground of the first ver-
dict being sit aside without fresh evidence.; but he
was compelled in the face of the fierce outcry to
withdraw his reprieve. "On the next Sunday

here was a scene in the church, the record of which

was afterwards annotates by the church members

in a spirit of grief and humiliation. After Sacra
ment the elders propounded to the church, and the
congregation unanimously agreed, that sister Nurse,
being convicted as a witch by the court, should be
excommunicated in the afternoon of the same day."
The place was thronged, the reverend elders were
n the pulpit, the deacon presided below, the sheriff
and his officers brought in the witch and led her up
the broad aisle, her chains clanking as she moved,
when the Rev. Mr. Noyes pronounced her sentence
of expulsion from the church on earth, and from
all hope of salvation hereafter. She had given her
soul to Satan, and she was delivered over to him for
ever. Aware that every eye regarded her with hate,
unapproached under an'y other circumstances, yet
she was able to sustain the trial. She was still calm
and at peace on that day, awl during the fortnight
of final waiting. When the time came she traversed
the streets of Salem, between houses in which
she had been an honoured guest, and surrounded
by well .known faces; and then there was the hard
task for her aged limbs of climbing the rocks and
steep path on Witches' Hill to the place where the
gibbets stood in a row, and the hangman was
waiting for her and others on the 19th July, 1692.
It was not till 1711 that the authorities of the pro-
vince, sanctioned by gaeen Anne, granted to her
represmitatives, as compensation, .£25 ! but shortly
after, on a petition from her son Samuel, twenty
years since the judicial murder, at a church meeting
the record was blotted out—the remorseful congre-
gation doing this in terms of bitter self-reproach.
Mary, once her playmate on the sands of Yarmouth,
was her companion to the last in love and destiny,
being arrested on the 21st April, while her sister
lay in gaol in irons. The charges against her were
a mere repetition—torturing, strangling, pinching,
and pricking Mr. Parris's young friends, and ren-
dering them dumb, or blind, or mazed. So absurd
was the evidence that on the 18th May she was set
at liberty, but instantly the convulsions and tor-
tures of the children returned. On the news
being known, the ministers, and elders, and
deacons, and all the zealous antagonists of Satan
bore down all opposition, and Mary Easty
was in two days again laid in irons. Her
excommunicated sister Rebecca, abhorred of man-
kind, lay ironed in the gaol awaiting a felon's
death, and the news of her younger sister Sarah's
arrest was carried to her. But nothing could break
down the fortitude of this brave lady, whose faith
was built on a rock, and she died on the gibbet on the
22d September, serene to the last. Her memorial
to the court became her life, as her attitude on
Witches' Hill became her death, for it was a vigorous
appeal on behalf of others to drive reason into a
community which. seemed to have lost its wits.
For herself she had nothing to look to but this
foul end, satisfied with her innocency, bowing
to her doom on earth and cherishing her hope of
heaven. After bidding farewell to her husband, her
many children, and her friends, leaving all in tears,
and her words deep sunk in the hearts of all who
heard, she walked calmly to her end on Witches'
Hill and to her grave among its stones on
the rocky height. Twenty years afterwards
her case was estimated as meriting the com-
pensation of £2O. Sarah, the third sister, had
a narrow escape, baying, in common with • the
two elder, created by absenting herself
from the service when the interruptions of
the " afflicted" became too flagrant to be endured.
On the Sunday after the examination of Mrs. Nurse,
Mrs. Cloyse, though horrified at the proceedings, at-
tended, as it was a Sacrament Sunday. Mr. Parris
gave out his text, "One of you is a devil ; he spake
of Judas Iscariot," referring, of course, to the trans-
actions of the week. Mrs. Cloyse could not bear
the pointed outrage, and retired, the door slamming
in the fresh breeze as she left. Nor had she to
wait long for the result, being arrested on the 4th
April with many others, and examined on the 11th.
In one case a witness was asked if she had seen a
company eating and drinking ? Of course she had,
it was the devil's sacrament. Forty were present,
Mrs. Cloyse and Sarah Good being the two dea-
cons ! And when Sarah Cloyse sank, fainting with
a cry for water on the floor of the court, some of
these devilish children exclaimed " her spirit is gone
to prison to her sister Nurse." A strong effort was
made to involve Rebecca's son Samuel, his wife,
and Peter Cloyse in the charge. But the decline
of the ministers' power saved them, hastened by the
innate disgust inspired, which caused the depirture
from the parish of some of the most eminent mem-
bers of its society. Among these was Mr. Cloyse
himself, who, when his wife was freed, gathered up
his effects and left Salem, never again to return.
From this sketch of a single family, we briefly
turn to a few other cases, which will suffice
to give our readers an idea of the period in the
history of Salem to which we allude.
John Proctor appears to have been one of those
true and intrepid men, who in a free society raise their
voices against iniquity and injustice at whatever peril.
So boldly had he spoken, says Mr. Upham, that it
was felt to be necessary to put him out of the way,
awl so bitter were his persecutors that they not only

arrested and tried to destroy his wife and children
above the age of infancy in Salem, but all her rela-
tives in Lynn, many of whom were thrown into prison'
The helpless children were left destitute, and the
house swept of its provisions by the sheriff. Proc-
tor's wife gave birth to a child about a fortnight
after his execution, and to this alone, it is believed!

she owed her life, while he died on the gallows.
George Jacobs, senior, mainly owed his arrest
to.his grand-daughter Margaret, one of the afflicted
girls. He regarded the affair as a wicked conspi-
racy, and in infirm old age he had to die for a crime
tie knew to be impossible. He was a man of coßsi-
derable estate, and now his home was desolated, his
property confiscated, while his only son, under the
same charge, had to fly an exile to foreign lands,
leaving his children unprovidcd for. His crazy wifd
was chained in prison, awaiting trial as a witch, the
elder children were scattered he knew not where,
And his own flesh and blood was his accaser.

rifled at her work, Margaret tried, but in vain, t°
undo it; she was conveyed to prison for retracting
her evidence, while her grandfather died on the gib'
bet as well as 111TxBurroughs.
Goodman Corey was so rough as to be Wl'
popular even in a young colony. When the
delusion broke out he was a well-to-do citizen,
eighty years old, and his wife Martha aP"
pears to have been a woman of singular piety
She spoke freely of the tricks of the children,
the blindness of the magistrates, and the falling
away from common sense and the Word of Ged'
and while her husband attended every public meet-
ing she stayed at home to pray. In his fanaticism
he quarrelled with her, and she was at once marked
out for a victim, and one of the earliest. When
visited by examiners she smiled and conversed with
entire confidence, declaring that " she was no
witch, and that she did not think there were an/
witches." By such sayings, and by the expression
of vexation that fell from her husband and the
fanaticism of her four sons-in-law, she was soon
brought to extremity. But her husband was Pre"
sently under accusation too, and much amazed he,
was at his position. His wife was one of the eight
firebrands of hell, whom Mr. Noyes saw 00.14
off on the 22d September, and the record says
.Martha Corey, protesting her innocence, concluded
her life with an eminent prayer on the scaffold.
Her husband suppbsed certain to follow in the sane
way had chosen a different one. His anguish ec;
his rash folly at the outset of the delusion excite
the strongest desire to bear testimony on behalf °
his wife and other innocent persons, and to give
d
emphatic blessing to the two sons-in-law who ha
been faithful to his wife's cause. He executed e
deed by which he presented his excellent children
with his property in honour of their mother°
memory ; and, aware that if tried he would be cob;
deinned and executed, and his property forfeited,
resolved not to plead, and to submit to the cons 3;
quence of standing mute. Oil as he was
obstinately endured, and 'the court had, as tl-0
authorities believed, no I.lternative. Ile Oa
pressed to death, as devoted husbands
fathers were here and there in the Middle Age:it
when they chose to save their families from le
consequences of attainder by dying untried. I.
bore the horrible agony with unconquerable fern ;
tude, only praying for heavier weights to haste
his end. In the face of such an act Mr. Parris tie'
nounced him as a suicide and obtained his exl°lll'
munication, but the hearts of the New England°';
although then warped by the fiend of prejudiett;
were still true, and this deed of self-sacrifice Vele
straight to the mark. The execution of hie
two days later, coupled with his end, weighed "es
the community, and no revival of old 0116'4
against Goody Corey had any effect, and the attenv,„
ten
made by the ministers and one of their " am-pale o
agents to impress the Church and society wit:h it
vision that announced his damnation v/3',d
complete failure. But now the tide that '1:0g
swept like a monster wave on shore, overwhelnlisj
all who opposed its resistless force, in ruin,
expended its strength, and was sweeping back t'sg.
the desolated land—and desolate, indeed, it ',iv
Empty homes hastening to decay, properties ,0
stroyed, deep and inextinguishable hatred plantea 10
the hearts of the people ; in truth, a visitation of Satit
attacking the Puritan settlement where lerea
guarded, while the defenders earnestly &sash
to do what was right, like a Maori Poo
which the English lately took when the garr,e,
on Sunday had gone out to pray. But if the
traordinary scene enacted at Salem brought out lo,'bt
clear relief the vices of human nature, it bronereo
e
also into prominence the nobility with which ted
trial can be met. Numerous instances are re,'`fra•
in which shone conspicuously filial, parental, an": .sea
ternal fidelity, and love. Daniel Drew, a c`ti the
of high standing, who had been deputY 'iYO4
general court, asserted, in the boldest language,bsa
belief in the innocence of Rebecca Nurse, alci,,oh-
to fly for his life. Many devoted sons and' ueloa
ters clung to their parents, visited them in P;fr;isla
in defiance of a bloodthirsty mob, kept by the' re-
on the way to execution, expressed their love,,roo
verence, and sympathy to the last, and by 1; ic-
and perilous enterprise got possession of the'
le
mains, and bore them back under cover eitors.
night to graves consecrated by prayers and
One noble young man is said to have effeted r in
mother's escape from gaol, and secreted bled
the woods till after the delusion had NO'
away, building for her a wigwam, and,
perate hazard, supplying her with food. ,;ocio,
after Goody Corey's death, the Rev. jr-oci
Dane signed memorials to the Legislature hol
the courts .against the prosecutions. 1-1,0. 100
reason to know something about them, for actives,
nine of his children and grandchildren, releitlioa.
and servants had been brought under ace°looo
When he spoke out, others followed, and t," over
the prisons were filled and the courts occupied the
and over again, there were no more horrors iiiol3
accused were acquitted, and Sir William roilV
discharged all the prisoners by acclamation' 00°
ing a gaol delivery such as bad never been v
tba
in New England. Of course, the ministerSiogeo
judges, the magistrates, who were actively gaged
in fighting Satan, violently opposed this ovof
but their power was gone ; the spell was ni,rosett4
and although the proud Church of MassnePheart"4
refused openly to acknowledge her error, the
of many of her best members were in secret ',co ill
with the agony of the new light that had hr°,7ot
upon them. It may grieve some to learn ty ;pea
authors of this hideous calamity went unpn°o
of the hrw. But there is a retributive justice is tb°
lives of people, as of nations, which prelt
free escape of any from a great crime. ritrrl,
Goody Nurse's sons-in-law that drove grand ,
from the parish he had turned into a hell, d
sunk lower and lower till he ended his dnY'r
wretched outlying station, querulously at wA•tot°'
mankind, and ever endeavouring in vain t° •
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to himself, or to others, his conduct at Salo'''.

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