The Cecil Whig., 1843-11-04

aJThe agony is over-lhe ordeal is
passed-we are once more in our Office
in the enjoyment Of liberty, and ready
again to serve our subscribers to the best
of our ability,
In to-day's paper we give a report of
our tial taken from the Baltimore Sun.
that paper having had reporter here
during its continuance. We are gratifed
thus TO be able to give a statement Of it
which no man can charge with parliality
to us; and on that account we prefer TO
give the Suns report, although 1t would
have been in our power to have given
much more extended one from notes Ia
ken BY other gentlemen during the trial.
We shall make but few remarks. The
evidence on the part Of the prosecution
is sullicien. to show to those gentlemen
who will not suffer themselves to be
canfd or corhided, that cur action was
entirely iusttiable. Even that part Of II
most unlavorabie Ia us. goes to show that
the deceased got cane, sought us, and
made a violent assault upon us, at time
when we could not see him approach
And the desperate character of the de-
ceased, coupled with the most violent
threats he had made against US, will also
justify us in the sight Of that part of
mankind who are influenced by fear alone.
The deceased on the Monday preced-
ing his attack upon us, told gentleman
of tkis town, Of The highest responsibility
that we 'both could not Ire in the world
together, and that it would not be well
for his best friend TO interfere when he
made the attack Here was threat
looking 10 our death, which was convey
ed directly to US. and the reason it was
not brought out on the trial, was, because
il go as supposed al Il breach Of conf
-.~-e was INV se /. It's disclosure. DR.
I,sauo,t +. Bu.2sy, VINO ccn!a mol be hGd,
,r1 Saturda> alter the testimony was
.,u.la, -avs ".e deceased told him lha;
he uur.H Yra ,nr senses out of us and
cu ~ aur cars. and tumor was llie that
fur tnat purpose he had scissors in his
pocket which fact il is said could now be
proven. We also saw W Ugh, dangling
III his coat pocker, which we still believe
tc have been pistol. dirk or colt. The
painful cases Of Gdrdcner, EGgdn. and
IIeuNon, editor, who hut short time
before had been slaughtered. were ais"
fresh in ou~ memory, AID though these
things are now of no account. they 60 to
show thai we had more cause for uesper-
ate acton. than was brought out during
the Trial, although a tina, time every hon
est, honorable and unpreiudlced mar OF
both parties. who head it, was convinced
that we did just as we should have done.
The sSun'' IN an editorial notices the
HsconflcIing representations" Of the wit,
nesses on the part OF the state, and also o
the 'suniformi,y" of the accounts given by
those for the defence; these characlers-
tics cannot fail to strike every reader, bu
the contradict ory nature of the former wa:
much more manifes, to all present at the
trial. than it can be to those who read the
report-the reporter not having been
able to catch all the nice points of differ
ence, on account, we suppose, OF no
knowing the various locations spoken of
for instance: a witness made us to retrea
westward 8 or 10 feet, the deceased pur
suing us till the first 2 shots were fired
he then made deceased to turn and run
eastward towards the tavern, and us tC
pursue and pass him, and shoot back a
him, the last shots; but this docs hot SC
appear in the report. There are many
such mpcrleclions in the report, YET
upon the whole it gives very correct
idea of the trial,
The principal witnesses for the prosccu.
ton we're Whann, Manly, Robb, llol.