Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1804-08-22
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very different kind he seemed TO cxpect
a kind of respectful sympathy from you
with the feelings of the castle, and The
griets OF chded authority. Perhaps, gen
tlemen, he may know you better than I
! do; if he does he has spoken as he ought:
he has been right in telling you, tina, if the
Reproduction of this writer is weak, Il is be-
cause his genius could not make il stron-
ger; he has been right in telling you that
! his language has not been braided and less
TONED as elegant as it might that he has
noipnched the miserable plates OF Phrase.
oloSy, nor placed his patches and feathers
with that correctness of millenary, which
] became so exalted person. If you 90
gree with him gentlemen of the Jury, if
you think that the man who at the hazard
OF his own liz, to rescue from the deep
the drowned honor of his country, must
not presume upon The great familiarity.
OF pluckng 1t up by the locks, have no
more TO say I; do u courteous thing. Tn.
right and honest Jurors, find civil and O.
blging verdict against the printer and
when you have dane so, march tbroupb
the ranks Of your fellow. citizens to vonr
own homes, and bear their looks as Won
pass along; retire 10 the bosom of yopr
families and your children, and when you
are presiding over the morality of the ra-
rental board tell those infants who are to
be the future men of Ireland, the history
OF this day. Form their young minds bv
your precepts, and confirm those precepts
; by your own example teach them how
discreetly allegiance may be perjured on
The table, or loyalty be forsworp in the
Jury box; and when you have done so.
tell them the story of Orr; tell them Of
his captivity, OF his children, of his crime.
of his hopes, of his disappointment, Of
his courage, and of his death; and when
you lind your little hearers hanging from
your lips, when you see their eyes over
flowing with sympathy and sorrow, and
their young hearts bursting with the panes
OF anticipated ophanage, tell them that
YOU had the holiness and Justice to s,ig.
matze the monS,er--.who had dared 10
publish the transaction!
MerciEul God what is the state of
Ireland, and whete shall yom find the
wretched inhabitant oil this land. You
may lind him perhaps in a Jail, the only
place OF security; had almost said Of
hah'tatIon you may see him Tying from
the Hames OF his own dwelling; or you
may find his bones bleaching on The green
heids OF his country; or he may be found
tossing upon the ocean, and m.nrIinsr his
groans with these ,empests less savage
than his prosecutors, that drift him to a
returnless distance from his family and
his home. And yet with these facts ring.
ing IN the car and staring in The face Of
the prosecutor, you are called upon 10 say,
on your oaths, that these [acls do not ex-
ISL. You arc called upon in defiance of
shame, or truth or honor, TO deny the suf.
ierings under which you groap, & to fat
ter the persecution that tramples YOU I'm.
der foot.
I" speak of what your own ewes have
seen day after day, during the course of
his commission from the box where YOU
are now sitting the number cf horrid
miscreants who ayowed upon their oaths
that they had come from the very seat of
government ;--lIom the castle. where
they had been worked upon by the fear of
death and the hopes of compensation to
give evidence against their fellows, that
the mild and wholesome councils of thisgo-
vernment are holden over tLesc ca'aconbs
OF living death, where the wretch that is
buried, man, lies, till his heart has time
70 lester and dissolve, and is then dug I'D
as witness.
" Is this fancy or is it fa@2 Have you
not seen him after his resurrection from
that TOMB, make his appearance upon The
table, the living image Of lie and ofdea;h,
and the supreme arblter Of both! Have
you not marked when you entered, how
the stormy wave of The multitude retired
at his approach Have you not marked
how the human heart bowed to the supre.
macy OF his power, in the undissembled
homage Of deferential horror? How his
glance, like the lightning of Heaven, SEEM
ed to rive the body of the accused, and
mark it for the grave, while his voice warn.
ed the devoted wretch Of woe and death :
death which no innocence can escape.
no art elude, no force resist no antidote
prevent; there was an antidotc--a iuror'a
oath--but even that adamantine cham that
bound the integrity Of man to the throne
OF eternal justice, is solved aud melted
IN the breath that issues from the infor-
mer's mouth: conscience swings from her
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