Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-07-14
From HE Kentucky Commentator.
ISAAC B. DESHA.

"7He long agony is over." In the course OF the
twelve days which are allowed for the term OF
the Harrison Circuit Court, eight only, Of the
numerous Jurors summoned and examined,
were found to be competent. In the afternoon
Of the last day of the term, j: became necessa-
ry dispose Of the prisoner until the next term.
A motion was made again to admit him to bail.
But il seems that when the Judge admitted the
prisoner to bail, at the spring term, there was
great danger that confinement Of the prisoneg
in cicse Jail, with the wound which he had Civ
EN- himself in the throat, would occasion his
death This danger being now in great mea-
sure removed, The Judge overruled the motion
decided that he prisoner should stand commit
ted, and was about TO give some directions for
haNing the prison room made as wholesome as
possible; when the Governor rose and told the
cour, that, it would be unnecessary: that il ,cas
noU fine for. HIM 10 aci, &c. and drawing from
his pocket, pardon for the offender, which he
happened 10 haze abonl him, required the dis
charge Of his son. The paper, at the sugges.
lion OF the Judge, was read by the clerk, the
proper entry made upon the record, and the
prisoner discharged. For this, no one who has
studied human nature will blame the Governor;
from whom nothing super human was 10 be cZ-
pected. II is what he ought to have done long
ago. When his son was first convicted, after q
FULL fair and impartial trial, in which he had the
aid of the most ingenious and able counsel, was
the time when this act should have been done
by the father. The Governor, as all the world
knows is no homan; and nothing Of Roman
hrmness would have been expected Of him. Ii
he had then acted the part Of an affec,ona:e pa
rent and honest man, the country would have
been satisfied. 1t would have been better for
him, better for tho convict, far better for the
country, to have done as he now has, immedi.
ately after the first conviction, than to have OBJ
tanned the new trials, upon false and frivolous
pretexts, under the hope that by some manage
ment, some continuance, an escape might be ef
fect"d-in the miserable hope, that by corrupt
ing the judiciary, he might avoid personal re-
sponsibilily in delicate case. His.friends, too,
will regret, that when, at last, the Judge assum.
ed the firmness which becomes his station and
the Governor saw that he must finally come to
The point, he did the thing with bad grace
FOR we learn from gentleman who was pre-
sent, that in speech Of some length, address.
ed TO the court, he charged the Judge, (khe uery
Judge who had granted one of the new trials with
practising extreme rigor, and with having re-
ceived an incompetent juryman; and was, upon
the whole, very contemptuous and abusive TO
the court. The Judge however, expecting no
less, bore it in patience.
The effects Of the wound, which was so near
destroying the life of Isaac, are still terrible,
and he is compelled to wear silver tube in the
wind-pipe, with branch protruding from the
neck, through which he breathes.
In conclusion, we beg leave to Congratulate
the good people of Harrison, upon having ,hs
benefits OF court Of Justice restored 10 them
OF which they have been almost entirely depriy.
ed, by this mans case, for ne ar three wears.