The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-06-14


nothing against her or her character. know no.
thing about her but at all events her testimony
stands unimpeached, and that evidence must be held
by the jury, as being entitled TO credit. Against her
character there is nothing, and gentlemen have uni
Ted IN pralslng her up. know nothing respecting
her, and the counsel for the prosecution say they
know nothing OF her. Caroline Phillips has, howe
yer, mentioned one fact of some Importance. She
says that Monroe Edwards offered his hand in ma
tnmony, and that day he offered 10 settle on her
$4,000 She fixes that day by saying that ii was
the day after Mr.. Larose left, and Mr. Lerose left
on the seventeenth or eighteenth of August, that
would bring II down 10 the nineteenth Au-
gust lfshe did see $4,000 ON that day, il would
go great way to account tor the possession OF the
money which he says he received from Johnson
beheve, however, that when you have considered
all the circumstances, you will find great sngularity
through the whole OF this transaction II is, TO say
the least of it, very unceremoneous courtship that
he should offer his hand to young and lovely girl,
not Is years of age, after months acquaina and
offer to settle twenty thousand dollars on her,
and though 1t may be the custom in Lou
lsianna, i does. not prevail to any great extent
in either Philadelphia or New York. Now j, seems
that between the 10Th and 3Oh she was absent from
home ona visit to Bordentown at least week, and
that II would seem, in all, their acquaintance had
been three weeks old In that short space Of time
he had courted this young lady, and had offered
nsi bs and Ss
4 entirely from my mind. look upon this young
lady's testimony entirely apart from his. Now
when they speak of dates, they do so by memoranda
made by Miss Lucy Philips, for she says when he
leit ON The 3lst July. and returned, she entered il in
the book. When Miss Phillips swears by the day
book, she undoubtedly swore 10 the TRUTH and there
fore the counsel are right in saying that the ut
most confidence must be given to her statements-
az 10 the tunes OF his gong and coming, because
that she determines by dates. But when she swears
20 The offer OF marriage, there is less confidence
70 be placed IN what she says, because
IN that she has no date to refer to. She swears
positively TO the day the gloves were gven-ihat
she knows TO have been the S0th of August. But
the counsel in order to fix the day ofthe offer refer
TO another fact the day that Mr. Larose left che
sweas il was the day before he left and ontrefer-
ring TO the book they find that he left on the 18th
of Miss Caroline Phillips, and she is estfyng, re-
member, under the strongest and deepest feelings
that can possibly agitate the human breast If she
did not accept this man for her future husband, she
him certainly no small portion of regard and afiec-
uon. She speaks then under feelings the strongest
that any person can speak under in favor OF the phi
against her; would not nsinuate for moment
that she does not speak the TRUTH for know nothing
OF her, but at the same time would point out thar
The deep feelings by which. she must have been
agltated,. the favor with which she evidently re-
garded this man, the sympathy which is always
ready to rise up in the breast of woman especially
tor one to whom she is attached, may have caused
events, she spoke under some bias, and GER
iainty, when she spoke of the offer, and this cir
therefore, does not account for the
money have as yet, sephe5mea disposed of but
the fndng OF the money in the trunks, for the tes-
tiInony. Of Miss Phillips and johnson only go
10 explain the possession OF the money. And
now to the direct proof that the prosecution has
brought forward. First, Nlunroe Edwards is shown
TO be in Baltimore the 3Ist of August, and Rich
mond on the I'd of September; And if you believe
tinguished counsel who last addressed you on the
other side says that he'll give up the case Mr.
keichoer says that he sent these drafts and checks
from New York on the 18th August to Alexandra
by mail. The prisoners counsel contend that even
an accomplce could not have got those drafts out of
the office at Alexandria, as to have taken them
to Baltimore IN time to have given them to Monroe
Edwards on the morning Of the 3lst. Now gen.
tlemen, It is a matter OF mathematical demonstra-
ton that they did go to Alexandria, and that they
did get back to Baltimore on the 3lst /; and there
wards, then perhaps an accompice. He then rea-
sons-but he touched that ground very slightly
that no accomplice could have brought them to
Balilmore IN A that time, and then he, takes the
been at Baltimore on the 3lst Of August He relies
for proof OF this on the testimony of the Misses
Phillips and one says she speaks from her sisters
dates But there Is one fact that makes in OPPOSE
tlon to her testimony II is that the way bills from
Washington to Baltimore on the morning of the 3lst
OF August, we find the name of Edwards: and on the
way bills gong from Baltimore to Washington back
IN the evening, we find the name of Caldwell.
Now, II Miss Phillips is her dates then this
could not have been Monroe Edwards but another
Edwards who came from Washington to Baltimore
that morning. Yet this IS one circumstance out of
many, and rs to be received for what it is worth;
and if you believe her then this could not have been
the prisoner. Now we come to the great positive
proof IN the case, the personal identity Ten per-
sons swear to seeing him in Baltimore on the 5lst
Of August, and at Richmond on the I'd of Septem-
Der. Nine swear positively; and one, Mr. Elder.
'wears he saw HIM in Baltimore either on the Slst
81 August or the LIST of September-he can't be posi-
i've which. Now, the gentlemen on the side of the
defence contend, that with regard TO personal den-
n.y. about which SO much has been said, that small
impossible to identify human features, and espc-
,ially, after lapse Of months Now on the other
'ide there is a remarkable minuteness and cores
'ondence with which various circumstances and
resemblance OF counfenance and person have been
remembered. And If there is one thing more
worthy OF our serious attention than another
I is the great similarity, and at the same time
1issimllarlty, if l may so speak, which
,ervades everything in nature That myste-
rious and wonderful law impressed upon matter
which produces similarity in everything Of the
same species, and yet which at the same time ktcps
Every species distinct no two animals Of tho same
species exactly resemble each other-no two blades
Of grass alike, and yet they are never mistaken
one for the other as general ruleno two re-
'emble each other, and one star dIiereth from
mother star IN glory-no two individuals exactly
like and the same principle pervades all the works
If man. Yet all the productions from the hands Of
my mag bear the same general mark and fea-
ures, which readily enable us 10 distinguish them
rom the productions Of any one else. Then, again.
7e have the fact that all the vast transactions Of the
commercial world are regulated and distinguished
nd depend upon similar rule or law-she mere
gnatme of an individual TO paper. This is known.
ere by the infexion Of line--ihere BY the pecu.
aniy OF dot; and SO on: And SO il is Of the
uman countenance. The features of no two men
ssemble each other precisely, though there is The
amc great outlines in the features of ALL Yet there
the peculiar general expression in each face
la mysterious something which pervadcs each
countcnance renders il so striking that
cannot readily be mistaken for another. Yet no
lance that have often occurred. and that will often
ccur again. There was the remarkable case of
ioag, who was tired in this city for bigamy, where
woman claimed TO be the own wife Of man,
wore positively to him, when he not her hus-
and Then there was the remarkable case OF Mar