The Arkansas advocate., 1835-01-02
Rasron. Nor. 25th, 1884. p:.,atee nj Boston. .-The Hall

posros. Nor. 25th, 1884.
 p;rates at Boston.-The Hall lag g1s;,ed z States Circuit Court present. be oh''s n;no q scene of intense inter- bls lnu aOacious walls were filled with t~is listening, for seven hours, in pro fa'g.s ..s.tion to the eloquent, argumenta- aa a'ls~ soac|usive charge of Mir. STORY, apu 0 wbo. for two weeks, have been i'u5'; ,be trial of twelve fine looking saplsu .s;lars, charged ,sitl. Piracy or the 'as' ,s,s, in robbing the brig Mexican of sea ses9' in specie, and then setting her on v9S .p;cb was happily extinguished by a 4llsn ep,iser. and the lives of eleven I..ans thus preserved.
 |Fe a'e sacts were clearly proven.
 " ,r;minals consisted of the Captain, lS .sd ten of crew, originally about ' ssa snaviqated the Panda, Spanish .', MY on her voyage from Mataazas to gaast of Africa. | Ssr identity was proven by their vlc- ' m some of whom stripes and blows ls.sn s inflicted, making an impression ll,dIv S, efaced, also by the officers of Ps,;s I sb cruiser, then in Court, and f. ,gbr g inc written confession of the par sblnselves.
 @s however, was not relied on as con- Y, @ srdence. and the facts on record,
 .,,d with recent trial in Vermont, s ."h falIibility of all human testimony. ga prisoners, on being arraigned at the |,n charge of murder, pleaded guilty were desired by the Judge to reflect I,.l recal their confession, as their lives my the forfeit--whereas, the huInani- Ebe law required full proof before con- |nnion. They persisted in the plea, |rd1g that, goaded by remorse; they were. [rrsd to expiate, with their lives, the sr of fellow being. IL seems that, rdctm had been left as dead, in barn, vas consumed the night of the brawl, skeleton found in the smoking ruins l I the dead, resurreeted, appeared in Court, and saved from the scafold conscience stricken imaginary mur-,,  the course of his examination and elu-I aioo, Judge Story went over, laboriouslyI niautely, the whole of the testimony and against the prisoners.
 ! |Fth reference to the good character giy-l ! by some of the witnesses Of Captain srt, the judge said that good charac- certainly availed much, but numerousl ances were on record of men, long held Hgh estimation, suddenly committing the Ehst and most horrible crimes. With sato De Soto, the mate, the generous Fbfmed by that individual was fully im3 by every person in the Court sa3 hunbled before you, gentlemen,I iisJudge, by a fact brought out in the ne of the testimony you have heard aet of an American ship passing by' having American citizens to perish in1 aEof their countrymen. We have had he Counsel for the defence eloquent iOns to the parable of the Priest and Ievue, and never, from the days of our nr till now, can that parable have been aally Illustrated, than by the fact to- M have alluded. The American pass ! ssRe sRhe suferers--the spaniard stopped asfd them. But the prisoners guilt
 outweigh all these considerations. Faahot dispense mercy--that Is the att te of higher power. You and l, snen, are bound to do our duty ac- nlg to law; and we should De false to Aths, our country, and our God, if we
 10 shut our eyes to the face of the aony before us.
 he learned and eloquent Judge gave to reclsion and accuracy of history the nation and beauty of romance, and lefi he minds of his hearers melancholy Vctoa of the guilt of the accused -on the Jury will have decided 'ere you |is this."