American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1822-07-19

&s blood for you the preceding campaign, wou'
8oye been dsbanded by starvation; and upwards q
Hypnty thousand men in arms, rrated and insu
Nd BY the violated faith of your corporate author
lies and determined not to leave the city unre"ar
ned while there was money IN the vaults oil you
#anks would have been let loose upon this place.
#budder when the probable consequences are re-
lived in my recollection, Little did ! think chow
xoud any generous mind anticipate y that wher
he wounds of bleeding country were healed
vhen il was replaced upon its feet, its constitution
nyiroraled its health restored-when its honor and
bme abroad, and its prosperity at home, were ex-
lied, when its 6naces were replenished aud Its
oIers full, when it was revelling in green pastures
Ind indugng in the refreshing shades oil the rich
VALLEYS; that T, who had regarded myself as one oil
Dis wachful and faithful attendant physicians in its
adyersity. should be singled OUT as the victim OF Hs
bersecution; that alone, with my family. should
4e outiswed from its Justice, and be banished and
Driven from its snciety, TO roam and mourn and
stare upon the barren bleak mountains OF despair
did not so anticipate; and thank my God could
bot The topic, however, is unwelcome, and dis
mis- it
Gentlemen: am no orator; but, as you all have
witnessed on this occasion (and most OF you, some
$zof you may certainly say. do know from long
acquaintance and expelience) plain matter OF
&faci man, that STEAK and act right on what know,
Efeel, and am able to prove. But had my lips ever
Nbeen touched by live coal from Minervas altar,
or had there been given to my tongue that force &
Of uterance which Providence denies to all
but chosen few; and would my wounded and in
Nsulted feelings sustain through the sad recital,
@without melting me to tears sutfocating me with
could recount long ten years series
o fears, anxietes, peplexties, SORROWS sicknesses
%bighted prospects, and wounded feelings inflicted
4, hasa tod mi ten n an
4 afeclionate land hope may be permitted TO add
an amiabe family as well as myself, that would
harrow up your snus-would give tongue TO every
pang we have sufered-snd make the very stones
rise up and cry aloud for justice forbear; as well
because | am inadequate to the task, as because
assured you in the opening that would not assai
your passions, ask your sympathy or comparisons
both of which scorn ! seek merely that plain,
rational, and simple justice, which the plaintiff in
this cause promptly and voluntarily meted out to
all others; and that demand as a right.
Before | sit down let me caution you upon one
sublect When public caumnes propagaled.
and the individual slandered is silent and resigned.
it is but too con mon Tor the public mind to be
generally and uniavorably impressed, ard it is
difficult for Jurors 10 divest themselves OF feelings
which these impressions have made: Permit me-.
therefore, gentlemen, to caution you against these
impressions. IT, influenced by hem, you should
finally do me Injustice you will lnflct but little ad
ditonal pain upon or r,y family: we have already
suffered all that the utmost stretch of human pa
ience and kindness can endure. But beware, gen
emen, lest, influenced by considerations OF this
nature, or by political personal feelings to which
my various public situations may have exposed me,
you do not place beneath your own couch thorn i
which, though it may not bud or blossom, or dis
quiet your peace, for moment, an hour, day, a
month, a year, or even for season, yet let me be
the faithful herald to proclaim to you now, that III
may become most unwelcome tormentor of a.
dying pillow