The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1857-06-18


ilg brow you Vociffei Atsd hell and eternal dan :
nation TO every unfortunate mortal who would
dare support for the Presidency Of this Union
that promise keeping, contract observing, hoary
headed old respecter Of female virtue and truth,
! James Buchanan.
"HOw fallen" Convicted and condemned by
an impartial jury as liar, betrayer, a culpnt
deeper sunken than the murderer, execrated
scorned, Kissed by your political brethren, who
feel your touch leprous with none sopoor as TO
do you reverence with none so callous to the
offence OF guilt to spare your hAte-your late
should not be envied in He'll
For fear some adrnirer Of pulpit politicians
and shriekers in their pulpits, might say that
the above is only the account Of slave driving
organ, we will publish also, in full, what the
Carrolton Free Press, the black republican paper
OF that county has to say about the trial.
The fourth and last case for a jury was hs
case of the term. For breach of promise Of
marriage. Elizabeth Sharp Us. Rev. Joseph
Barclay. Not being personally in the court
room during the progress of the trial, we can
not speak of that munitia with which this case
was tried. But never, since our knowledge of
our county, was there such an interest NANTES
ted, on the part of the public in the trial of
case, as in this. The facts are as we understand
them:-Reverend Joseph Barclay has been
regularly ordained Minister of the ("Seceder
Church." as it is familiarly styled) Associate
Presbyterian Church." and preached at stated
periods for the congregations in East township,
in this county. Itseems the Rev. went to board
at the house of w. B. Sharp, the father of the
plaintiff in the year 1851, and continued to board
there till sometime in 1858; and during this pc
riod he and she became intimate, she being in
her sixteenth year, and he at least thirty Mr..
Sharp, being an elder in the church, permitted
that intimacy to remain unmarried and nruffled,
reposing the utmost confidence in his spiritual
j adviser, and with an abiding confidence in his
charmingly innocent; and, alas too confiding
daughter, permitted that intimacy to remain
until the Suspicion of guilt flashed across his
sensitive fttind. At last the suspicion, confir-
med by the dread reality of his darling daugh-
ter's guilt and shame, stood arrayed before him!
caused by whom? Caused by HIM, through
whose spiritual teachings he placed his hopes in
Heaven! He is stunned-he reels!-he falls!
he dies! the victim Of an abiding confidence
Time wears away and that daughter appears be-
fore jury of her country; beautiful, though
pale, innocent though defiled, she confronts her
seducer and with simple story and single
heartedness of purpose, that wins for her the
sympathies of the congregated throng that fills
the spacious court room to its utmost capacity
she stands the examination and cross examina-
ton of willy and learned counsel, until the au-
dence are captivated by her artlessness. There
she stands, beautiful and, though defed, still
innocent Of intended wrong she gave herself
away to him whom she loved and adored, but
alas! only to be defiled and cast from him!-
She says she was mother, by that illicit wrong,
but mother no more, as the offspring is num-
bered with the dead. Her step mother and
sister are called upon and fully corroberate her
statements of collateral facts.
The Reverend gentleman was in Court du-
ring the entire examination, but did not attempt
to put up defence, neither by the mouths Of
other witnesses nor by his own mouth, as he had
right to offer himself as witness to contra
dict her. Whereupon motion was made by
his counsel TO dismiss the ccse, which the court
overruled fortunately; yes, we say fortunately,
for we are informed that the popuace had be-
come so excited at this stage of the trial, that
night, that violence would probably have been
inflicted upon the person of the defendant. AZ
ter which Gen. Eckley made speech of two
hours, in his own versatile and inimitable man.
ner, by which the entire vocabulary Of anatha-
mas were poured out upon the devoted head of
the Reverend defendant, occasionally cheered
by the auditors, until prevented by the court
And after eleven O'Clock at night the court adj
ourned till morning After hearing the charge
Of Judge Hoffman, the jury retired to their
room and made up their verdict for the plaintiff
in every last red cent of damages claimed by the
counsel for the plaintiff, viz: FIVE THOUSAND
DOLLARS; upon which judgment was rendered
accordingly. We are informed that one of ths
Jurors afterwards said, that had the defendant
been worth half million, and the petition of
the plaintiff called for it, he would have given
her one half of it! We take it, therefore, had
the petition called for TEN thousand, instead Of
Five, it would have been granted. This we be-
lieve is the heaviest verdict ever given in the
State for "breach of promise" Of marriage.
The Stark County Democrat has the follow
ing in the relation to the same subject
Another Fremont Angel Fallen.
At the term Just closed of the Court of Com
mon Pleas of Carroll County, trial was had
between Elizabeth Sharp, plaintiff, and Rev.
Joseph Barclay, defendant, action for breach of
marriage contract. The defendant was prea-
cher of the Covenanter or Seceder faith and
was one of the leading Fremont Kansas Shrek
ing preachers of Carroll County. The evidence
on Lne TRIAL SnOWeu Inat ne hau I0r some Time
been paying his addresses to Miss Sharp, an &C.
complshed and highly respectable young wo-
man of the county, that he promised to marry
her. and then with the hellish Vaccinations Of
fiend, but shielded with the livery of Heaven,
he set about his work Of destruction, and by
prayers and great professions of righteousness
coupled with his promise of marriage, he sue
ceeded in seducing the young girl from the path
Of virtue and accomplished her ruin and deser-
+ ted her. The jury returned verdict of $1,000,
all the petition asked for. If the Plaintiff had
asked $4,000, it no doubt would have been
given her. The scamp ought to have been lod-
ged in the Penitentiary for life, and even then
the punishment would not be sufficient for his
crime. Little else than this can be expected
from ministers who are continually preaching
politics They have done more within the last
three years to spread vice and immortality, and
bring reproach upon the cause Of religion, than
infidelity has ever done.
Can't the Rev. j. S. M. set up another detenc.
in the Cadiz Republican, in favor of his dear bro
Tier Bayclay9 We shall see.
HARD UP.--The old lying reverend hypo.