The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1859-12-07

the contest shall come, when the thun der
shall roll and the lightHing flash, and wher
| the slaves shall rise in the South, in limitation
| ofthe horrid scenes of the West Indies, when
| the Southern man shall turn pale and tremoie
when your dwellings shall smoke with the
| torch of the incendiary, and disnay sit on
each countenance, be will hail it as ths ap.
| preaching dawn of that political and mora
millennium which he is we'll assured will
come upon the world" The astrocity OF
these sentiments chills the blood OF honest
| patriots, and no part of the prisoners equals
| their bloody import. Shall the old leader
escape aud the young follower die9 Shall
the teacher whose doctrines told the prison
| er that what he did was right, go unscathed
| of the lightning W hich he has unclaimed? Ii
so,Justice has aed from he temples on earth,
and awaits US only on high to measure out
what is right between man and mao. The
men who have misled this boy to his ruin
shall here receive my maledictons. They
bis calamity They lift up their hands and
say Amen to the bloody spectacle which
their internal orgies hare summoned up.
You hear them all over the land calculating
through false, pale, coward lips: "rhtu
canst not say did it," when their hands are
reeking with all the blood which has been
shed and which yet awaits the extreme Pc
nalty of the law.
False, fleeling, perjured traitors false to
those who have acted upon your principles
false TO friends as well as country, and per-
jured before the constitution of the republic
ministers who profess to be of God, who
told this boy to carry Sharps' rifle to Kan
sas instead of his mothers Bible-shall this
jury, this court, and this country forget
their guilt and their infamy because victim
to their precep,s is yielding up bis life be-
fore you 2 May God forget me if l here,
in the presence of this pale face, forget to de-
nounce, with The whitening, biighting, blast
ing power OF ma .stic truth, the tall and
stately criminals Of the northern States OF
this Union.
Ministers, editors and politicians-Bee
er, Parker, Seward, Giddings. Sumner,
Hale, and host of lesser lights of each class
who in this court room, who in this vast
country, who in the wide world who shall
read this trial. believes then not guilty, as
charged in the indictment in all the counts,
to deeper and far more fearful extent than
John E. Cook Midnight gloom is not more
som5re in contrast with the blazing light of
the meridian sun than is the guilt of such
men in comparison with that which over
whelms the prisoner. They put in motion
the maelstrCm which has engulphed him.
They started the torrent which has borne
him over the precipice. They called forth
from the caverns the tempest which wreck
ed him on a sunken rect. Before God, and
in the light of Eternal truth, the disaster at
Harper's Ferry is their act and not his
May the ghost of each victim to their doc
trines of disunion abomination sit heavy on
their guilty souls May the fate Of the pris-
oner, whatever it may be, disturb their Stun
beers and paralyze their an, ,,Hep ,h-y are
again raised against the peace oi the cOun-
try and the lives of its citizens.
know by the CLEAN of each eye into
which look in this jary-box, that if these
men could change places with Cook, you
Mould gladly say to him, $50, erriog and re-
pentant youth, our vengeance shall fall on
those who paid their money, urged on the
attack, and guided the blow"