The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1823-02-28

nlng sun, aud that its brigbies, I'M "a ioe NOR
not reveal speek upon his III" nLo conit
what mattered it that he had 'aiaetef!
'he sorrows OF of parents al 'io,o.,lhed
$1,000 minister of The Cos,,'i. There
whose functions placed him ~ man
cion there he stood, With th,. sispl-
IN his hand from which he sbo,il book
the forgiveness Of injuries. bur,;, preach
Shent the brand of an ungr,tas7 On my
Awful TO the poor man was III, felony
ms country, his liberty, his charaetsri n sI,
poor mans only wealthy at hazard ~ me
tie world in which he lived all w y, the IT.
witnesses OF his shame and deprags';e The
II ne were convicted, the ut,nos, ',,on,--
OF The law must have fallen upon breuahy
fallen justly, because to the r;y;, "lln and
breach OF trust was added even -, June a
quittai pans and penalties must b.. "n ac-
lowed the expense he was put taia ioI-
inl issue! but what did il sipn;fn iear-
follower of the Apostles Tbs ~ 70 lhls
might have rotted in dungeon III h mah
had splendid palace 10 which n 'a' ne
me poor man might have tossed uno ,U', l.
bed OF straw but he had his silLspp on MS
Ply and his bed of down. The noor .s an
might have traversed the returnless a n'dh
but he had the luxuries of life around s;n
the boarded Golfer and the groaninc b n,,n
10 some souls, the poet tells, afforded aa
pie compensation for the scorn of m,nL;a,
Gentlemen, do / use strong langnan"s
| am not ashamed to do so in This .saaen'
transaction. | mean not to use meas"r"y
language. Tho when meet a n,;n;a,,l
OF the Gospel with the patent of his aIee
ton stamped upon his life humble amid
the homage which his merit gains him
poor like the dying Fene!on from H.,
charities pIous, not in his preaching bn,
IN his acts; link as it were, between tbe
earth which he instructs, and the heaya,
to which he leads, teaching the happiness
OF the one and tipifying the purity of tbs
other; though l can admire such men q
ven IN my Inmost heart, yet will NOT ey.
tend my reverence to that yermin sanct;t,,
which burrows its way under the found,
ton OF the temple, and eats the bread %
the shrine IT has endangered. -Gentlemeu
need scarcely tell you the result of the
prosec utlon. The prosecutor swore. as
might have been expected TO the IDENTITY
OF the beef; to the identity of the bread.
and after establishing his full claim TO the
pennywoith, he called up his household 10
correb0rate him. One of them has been
turned out of his service since. the otbe-
has a second opportunity to day. What
they swore then, | take it for granted thew
VIII swear now; and if they do, DEFY any
man OF conscience to say that this man had
any just ground for his prosecution, recol.
lecting as you will that all was commnni-
Gated to him before the Sessions. nav. he.
fore the arrest. What was the result the
Jury rose Indignantly, nterposing between
the accused and the modification of a de-
fence-he was at once acquitted.
Parson Walls departed, happy, would
have supposed, in the escape ofinnocence.
II he had since offered the slightest COM
pensation-if he had,even rendered the ex-
penses'to which his caprice had put my
client but he has not done so ; he chooses
again to come before the public, again to
meet, L trust, the merited rebuke OF an
honorable jury. The only point in which
such man can be made to feel is his
purse, and hope it will at last be opened
TO the claims of the poor. The trial over,
my client and his prosecutor both depart,
ed, the one TO his lordly mansion, the 0.
ther to his home of desolat0n-the one
enchanting populus me Sibuiat the Other
Illuminating on all the woes TO which po-
verify is subject, and the wickedness which
may thrive even under a consecrated gar
ment.
The day of retribution, however, is at
last arrived and at your honest handsI
confidently claim it. claim it, not mere
~ iorexpenses incurred-er Imprisonment
ehdufed-tOr character involved-or OPP
preston exerclsed-but claim it in addi-
uon, for the agony of mind which the
plaintiff must have suffered when he saw
himself attalnted before the world as fe-
lon But II | wanted an aggrava,ion in
TINS case, do not find il in the station of
the detendant-in that education which
should have ameliorated his hearth that
wealth, OF which, as Clergyman, he was
but the almoner of heayen-in that sacred
ofhce which should have pressed on him
the assumption of benevolence What
would the world say, and naturally say,
When they saw such prosecutor
Would they not say, that gIaring indeed
must have been the guilt which forced him
TO depose to it?-Would they believe that
1t was assumed upon the grounds too rldl'
culous for creduIity-srasped at, at first,
with disgraceful promptitude, and after
wards pursued with as disgraceful per
severance, got up by kind of family ar
rangement-dragged before the public a.
galnst all ePidence-against the inposs'
blity of access-asainst the dissiihilanty
of the artcle-agairst the unanimous tes'
timony of every witness who was exam
med? Gentlemen ofthe Jury, shall leave
this case to you if you think that nne-
cence should be accused-c character lnvoi'
ved--expence accumulated--imprison-
ment endured, and felony imputed, upon
grounds like thesc-dismiss my client
but if you hold probity in respect, though