The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-08-03
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The English news papers are filed
with the great trial for libel, Achilles
Newman. The name ofDr. Newman
iswell known in the Observation-Disclosures,
gy. He was the leading intcilect III,
the Puseyite movements at Oxfofd.f
Since that day he has gone over bag
and baggage to the enemy; aud he ii
now the pride Of The English Roman.
Church. While Newman is an :apos4.
tate from, DR.. Achill is a renegade To-
the Protestant array. Heis an Italian
priest who has renounced the Pope, and
for sometime past has made q great
noise in London by lecturing and Wi !
ting against the church he formerly be-
longed to-making revelations Of it's
concealed enormitics, and manutactu--
ring cock-and-bull stories about Con.
vents, &c. In short, he appears to bel
larger sort Of Leahy.
But some bad reports got abroad
about Achilli and DR.. Newman got
hold ofthem. He came out sometime
ago. with piece of reverend billings.
gate which We have seldom seen sur
passed, in which ne charged directly,
that Achilli had been ignoniniousiy
expelled from the church ON account Of
various scandalous transactions which
he detailed.
Achilli, backed by the Protestant
clergy, brought his action for libel.
Newman plt AIDED justification, and pro-
duced in court variety Of interesting
witnesses from Malta, Venice, Corfu,
and other places in which Achilli had
lived before he turned Protestant lee
turer. There were women whom he
had scduced, n.istresses whom he had
kept, husbands whom he had corneted,
all OF whom gave the full details Of
their transactions with Achilli. Then
came police officers who had saved hin,
from the beatings and delivered. him
from the knives vi divers lovers, broth.
ers and fathers. Also the heads Of
colleges from which he had been ex-
PEELED, authorities of the Church ;Mht,
had thundercd on him its cens,lres,
with the records Of the cclesiasticaE
courts before which he had been tried
and condemned at various times for
bringing scandal on his religion.
The counsel for DR.. Achiili had
no evidence contrary to that which
DR.. Newman reduced except tho
denials Of Achilli himself, and the
testimony Of one Poggi, another
renegade Italian priest, who swore to
the good character Of his brother
in apostacy.
Yet the jury decided that there was
no justitcation; in other words, that
not one charge in Newman's libel had
been proven, and that none Of tho
Catholic Witnesses gru.s or small,
were entitled to cred.uility.
Those who read tie trial, find iS
impossible TO attribute such result 70
any other cause than religious spite
and prejudice. Never did we acc
verdict SO directly in the teeth of
evidence. The trial is aylsopprobrium
on the English Courts 1he whole
,erudnct of it was disgracefnl. Lori
Campbell, who was the. presiding,
Judge, frequently interrupted the pro-
cecdings by inhammatory. addresses to
the jury about the '.blqpisitiou," &c..
Aud when tho audience cheered him,
instead of ordering his officers to-
preserve order, he would repeat the
remark he last made over again that
he might be cheered. The verdict of
the jury was received with deafening
shouts, and there was not the slight
| est nttcmpf hy the court to chnc(r
them. Indeed, since the days of
Oates, Bedloes, and the rest who
were able to bring the best blood of
England to the scaffold by appeals to
this same English bigotry, there has
not been such another scene in tho.
courts Of our race. The old spirit of
Nu-Pop ry blazes up again, undim-'
med by the progress of the age and.
the advance of civilization. We did
not suppose such an affair was pos.
sible in our times.
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