The Cecil Whig., 1843-11-04

came out aud told hHn ! was ,eady to
give mvself IN. a. soon az was assured
would receive no personal injury. He
assured me no violence should be shewn
the, and took charge of me-"
| Not having been impeached. we are
competent witness IN the matter, and We
now unhesitatingly aVow (and there are
those who will believe our word, much
| hard swcGyjng to the contrary notwith-
Standing that the testimony i'll regald TO
our wearing when opposite Nowland's
store is arholiy and utterly false. After
firne The first shot we did moi speak one
word tlll we left the street. Brown, Liv-
Ingsl"n, and Nc CuInugh. say they were
10 or 20 yards from us, (but they were
far her. when they heard us swear Al
the time they aIlege we swore, we were
within fl of Hanson, not more than G
or feet from Nowland, and close beside
Purnell, yet none of these men heard Us
swear; nor did Moore, Knight, or G. A.
Ford. The same witness under cath also
gave different versions Of the excamalior
he attributed to us; one before the magis-
trates, and another in court. We do hot
wish to lmpeach any man, but ice know
we made no such exclamation, and those
witnesses who swore to 1t, NAV conIound
what they heard, with what DR. Cowan
heard from The crowd pursuing us, or they
may account for IL in any way they
| please that is matter for them to settle
The exclamation '.honor," "honor"
attributed TO tke deceased was not made
( by him. 1t was not mentioned before the
al days after the ailray. We know it was
never made; and all other exclamalions
attributed to him, except those testified to
by Purnell, up to the time Of his saying
he was killed, arc labricatons. But we
| have no disposition to enter into dis
cussion Of the matter. 1t would take up
too much time and room to point out all
hat Is conirdd'ct0ry. erroneous and falSc
IN the evidence addured against us. All
of it cannot be tine; but i. is more charila.
BILE to suppose that those who sworp to pr
r"neous statements, were deceived by then
senses, than that they did il knowingl, s
maIclously, yet their manner was agains,
s'icm; going AS ii did, rather to show ha-
'rcd To u, All love Of justice.
One ding was observable during the
lriai, /. c that there was scarcely an al
tempt made al cross-eXamining the wit
nes>es for The drIence-the counsel for The
prosecution, knowing we suppose, that
"thr more truth Is rubbed the brighter 1t
shiues.n Tx" counsel in our behalf dis
played singular ability; auh we thought
and we believe such was the general opin
ION, that lhey gained the advantage on
every point that was raised. and in every
arrangement that was made Here tavoc-
able opportunity is presented ia sey a
word to those Of our irerds who were dis
satisfied. because the case vss not argued.
by such an arrangement we could not
have lost; in fact it was our decided adj
vantage in point Of legal assistance, that
formed the gr"undw ork of the wish that
there should be no pleading; for having
rcry e7Rinrni counsel, we knew il would
be said, that we were cleared by the force
of taIenl;-so we chose lhat the case
should be besubmltted t" the jury, with sImp
| ly the testimony and the law toguide them.
which We think our friends upon retiec-
"on will hold to have bees the beler
course.
Although we must ever regret, that
circumstances forced us to hurry fellow
mortal swiftly into eternity, we from the
fist were entirely sell acquitted, and
looked upon our acquittal bv ou, country
"a only a secondary matter 1t was the
consciousness of having committed no
crime, that enabled US to endure without
a murmur our confinement in prison; and
To meet our trial without the slightest
feeling Of dread.
Before closing these haslv remarks, W.
must not forget To express our warmesl
acknowledgements to the Sheriff and his
family for their kind attentions during
our sojourn with them They antcpa-
ted every want, and did every thing in
their power to make our confinement as
pleasant as pc ssible.
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