The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1845-08-15
VOL. VINO. 8.

following questions:
Have you formed or expressed an
opinion concerning the gull! or innocence
of the accused =
DO YOU cherish any conscientious
scroples with regard 10 capital punish
menl!'
Are you akin TO the prisoner =
trial for murder in the first degree.
or, as sportsman would term ii, race
for life and death, came off short time
since, within less than one hundred miles
from civilization, when a juror. who had
not acted in iha, noble capacity before,
man Of light complexion and considerable
spunk, vain withal. and with dash Of
what answers to Addison's definition of
IS vicious modesty,' was The very first
man called TO decide upon the issue of
life and death.
The accused was buck negro, shining
black, with hair as stiff and coarse as the
teeth Of a carding machine.
Clerk-Prisonef, look upon the juror
juror, look upon the prisoner Do
you challenge!
Counsel for prisoner-Not peremiorily.
Clerk-tiave you formed or expressed
an opinion with regard 10 the guilt or in
nocence of the accused!
.Juror-Why. what question How
should l!
Clerk repeats the question.
Juror-Why l never saw him before.
Clerk.-Answer the question, yes or no.
Juror--No Stree!
Cour.-No sport here, it is too serious
matter.
CIerk-.Have you any conscientious
scruples
Juror have few left.
Clerk meau about inflicling capital
punishment for crime!
Juror None whatever, | DO assure you.
This emphatic declaration brought the
prisoners counsel TO his feet, who was
going 10 argue that the manner in which
the jurors last answer was given was
good cause for challenge, but lie was stop
lped by the court.
Clerk-Are you akin TO the prisoner
| Juror-What
CClerk repeats the question. Are you
Rakin tosthe prisoner
n Juror-Who do you take me FOR !
EzsG!crk--Are you akin Of the prisoner
Juror-Your face is bIacker on Sun
1days than mine on weekdays. and your
hair is wool. Are you akin 10 the prise.
ner
Clcrk--Answer the question.
Juror-Akin to the devil My kin arc
respectable people!
Here the cloudy brow of The court in
Dictated tina! the conference should be cut
short, and the prisoners counsel bodng
no good from the jurors conlemptuous
opinion OF his client, challenged the juror
for cause, namely, an opinion expressed.
Juror ontinued-What, am insulied
by tina! blackguard clerk, and now one of
his hired DULLES has challenged me. No,
I'll fight the clerk first, and his bully af-
terwards-no fighting by proxy-none.
Court TO Juror-Sir, you are challeng-
ed-you may retire.
Juror-I never turned back on friends
or loe-I'll not retire.
C0urt-Sir, you are committed for
twenty four hours for contempt Of court.
Sheriff, take him into custody. ~ 7.
Spirit ofMc Times.
"My Children" the venerable DR..
Mott beautifully remarked TO the repre-
senatives Of all the classes from the in
s;tu,on of Union College to the present
day, at the Semi-Cen,ennial Celebration
at Schenectady, "wc have but one life
tn live, and therefore let us live it well.
Man is mortal. Institutions such as this
never die. BY them we transmit to 9th
or generations our influences. They have
done much good by reviving letters, but
more by reviv,ng the reading Of the bible.
Where has the bible gone and has not
carried with i, love IF arts, love ofletters,
love of liberty The bible alone meets
the case of man. Chemistry can never
discover an Elixir which can re-animate
the urn-bui the bible teaches us how life
shall spring from death--how mortality
shall be clothed with immortality"
misunderstanding divided readers
into four classes. The FIRST lie compared
to an hour glass, their reading being as
the sanl--ii runs in and il runs out, and
leaves moi vestage behind. A second
class, he said, resembled sponge, which
imbibes every thing, and returns il nearly
in the same state, only a little dir.ier. A
third class he liked to jelly bag, which
allows all that is pure 10 pass away, and
retains only the refuse and the dregs.
The fourth class he compared TO The da-
mond miners in GOlconda, who, casting