Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1846-02-25
Caleb J. McNuIty.

y poh INC lllai Ol Mr. McNulty, IN
Washington city, which is reported at
length in the New York Herald, Mr..
STANTON, one Of the counsel, after COM
menting upon the law and the evidence
relating to the charge against the prs.
oner, and the evidence relating 10 the
high character he had previously borne,
thus concluded his remarks:
"Strange are the vicissitudes Of lifel
Less than two years ago parted from
Caleb J. McNuIty. Standing by his side.
leaning upon his bosom, was young
and beautiful woman, to whom he had
been long betrothed, but lately married.
And as he stood there, you might read
in her eye, 'lit by her deep love'struth;'
all thejoy and happiness that a pure and
noble woman might feel and hope for.
"This night one week ago, I met
him again. He was alone, stretched up
on the floor of your prison, charged
with crime, and awaiting trial for felo.
ny. But his wife, through the long dis.
tance Of three hundred miles, could
see her, as she sat in her desola.e home,
her eyes red with weeping, and her
heart wrung with agony, as she pressed
her infant child, the pledge of love to
her bosom, with the mingled feelings Of
hope and despair, that the heart Of a
wife and mother may feel, but no
tongue can utter. She knows not-may
she never know--that each day as she
watches through the weary hours, that
engthen into long years of painful ex-
istence; and each night, as she lays her
aching head upon the pillow, he, the
husband of her love, whom she once
beheld in high honor and ambition, tow.
ering like the eagle, is day by day bro't
forth under watch and ward, to under.
60, before thronging multitude, the
shame Of public trial for Infamous crime;
and, night after night, led back again, to
cast his weary limbs upon the floor of
his prison.
Sand now, gentlemen Of the jury, it
is for you TO send back his aged father
in-law, who, with the noble feelings of
manhood, has stood by the husband of
his child, in the hour of extremity; it
remains for you to send him back with
glad tidings, that shall dry up those
tears and cheer that desolate heart, or
bearing in shame and sorrow the mes
sage Of despair, that her husband is a
felon, and the father of her child inCa-
nous.
"But no! If, as believe IT does, mans
heart speaks to the heart of man in feel
ings plalner than words, feel and know
that yours will be the happy task of
binding up the crushed heart, and'pour-
ing the oil of joy and gladness into that
wounded spirit. And that, when you
return to your homes, and are welcom.
ed by the wife and children whom you
love, you will feel your own hearts hap
pier, that, in the discharge of a high
and solemn duty, you have carried joy
and gadness 10 the home and heart Of
another. .t..
ut only remains for me to add, that
amid all these prosecutions, sufficient to
have crushed the heart and borken the
spirit of most men, Caleb J. McNulty
has borne himself brave and dauntless.
Relying upon his conscious innocence,
and the protection thrown around eve-
ry citizen, by the constitution and laws
of the land, he has patiently waited. for
what was cruelty denied him in the
House Of Representatives, public tri-
al, where he should meet his accusers
and their witnesses face to face, know
the cause of his accusation, and haye
counsel and defence before animpar,ial
Jury.
sand now, with sure and steadfast
confidence, he expects from thejustice
of this tribunal, composed, as it is, Of
learned and venerable Judge, and an
honest and impartial jury, to be return
to the home and society from whence
he has been torn, and 10 be restored to
the child Of his love and the wife Of
bis bosom." g.y-.