Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-11-22

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y fosk se kess of abclis5onim, vho now ssver snd
! wkelk usder .hasty dsnies Of your csHpiisiitJ
win the bloody rssuik Of yoef v5cked and anloly
dosriass md taks var plsess 90 the wi'ns's
!, stand. Toll the world wnS this thing has mp
Cook for hs life. You advised his conduct and
taught him that he was doing right You taught
him q higher law and then pointed on, to him Tho
field of action.
An old man. and for long years a member Of Inc
National Congress from Ohio, next shall testify
here before you that he taught tho primner ,hs
terrible error which now involves his life. Ser, ID.
iinsurreetions have forever besn on the tongue nj
lips Of Joshua r. Giddings. lie says that " va,
the eoatsss shall come. whsn the thand,r snall
roll AMI tho lightning flash, and when the slaves
shall rise in the South in imitation Of the horFia
scenes Of the West Indies. when the SIu shern
man shall turn pale and trimble, whe n, yfpr
dwellings shall smoke with the torch OF Ito in,o,l-
diary, and dismay sit on each counter ance. he
will hail it rs the approaching dawn Of t,at pohti-
cal and moral millennium which he is well assur-
ell will come upon the world" Tho ~trocity Of
these sentiments chills the blood Of honest pa
,riots: aud no party Of the prisoners equals their
bloody i'm port. Shall the old leader escape aud
the young follower die ?-Shall tho teacher whose
doctrines told the prisoner that what he did was
right. go unscathed Of the lightning Svh.ch he his
unclaimed. Ii so. Justice has fed from her
temples on earth. and awaits us only IN high IA
measure out what is right between man and man.
The men who have misled this boy n his run
shall here receive my maledicticns. ] hey shrink
back from him now in the hour OF his calamity
They lii up their hands spd say, Amen! u the
bloody spectacle which their infer nal organs have
summoned up. fou bear them all over the lani
circulating through false, pale coward l'p.
Thea canst not say | did H." when their hanl
are reeking with all the blood theA has been s.el
and which yet awaits the extreina penalty OF the
law. False. %1ecting. p%erjured traitors false Ia
those who have acted upon your prime pies; false
to friends IS well as country, md perjureJ before.
the Constitution of the Republic-ministers who
profess to b. Of God who told. this boy here Ia
carry u Sharp's rifle to Ksrsas instead Of h.
mothers Biblc-shall this Jury. this court, msi
this country forget their guilt and their infany
because u victim to their preoepts is yielding up
bis life before you! May God forget me if here,
in tho presence OF this I alo face. forget t, de-
.nounce with the witberi ng, blightinc, bias ins
power Of majestic truth, the tall aud stated
criminals Of the Norther q States of this Union.
The visionary mind Of the prisoner heard from
a member Of Congress rom Massachusetts that u
new constitution, n ne Bible md anew God were
to be inangorated and 20 possess thu country. they
were To be aer. becar'se they were to he anti slave.
~, Tor the OLD const ition. aud the old Bible, aud
the God OF our iaths rs; and the ancient lord q |
OF Israel. the same Yesterday. today, aud forcye |
were not ON tho nj de Of aboiItionisIn. l. the = Il,
mitigation tor his doom in the fact that he took ias
life IN his hards, md aimed at that which n CIV.
ard tau ,ht him, but dared not himself at,cmrt!
Base, pusillD nj nous dcmagogucsh have led the pro-.
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' Virginia, | will not lot this awfn OCCASION yas,
history. without giving IL voice and an utter
ance toiu .rne purport and meaning, witi,oot
pom llsanthors the loa1ot axerrntion whlct,
they are TO bear henceforI, md forever. Day nj
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I:''' nos VI 'cSs't "Hn's u c''sH-"h'
VI .,'S courl'ro'n' VINO IN ihis vast country. WHO
W 'o "i"o "pr!u VINO S,'ai reau th's 'finl'beno'
'en '"' e"''v' I'm o"argeu ~ the 'hh'c'n'tdt
III ai ,ne courts 10 no'epef ,.na iar more fearful
eA'e"' 'a,n '"fh H. '"ok' Miuh'Sht S'"onl Is not
more Aomof' IN contrast with tho hlaz'ng hight Of
'"e 'neriain' sun tla'n ~ thc gult oil such Ih"n ~
comparison Win TINT whhcl ~o'erwhelm> tn pri--
'"er' iney put IN mot, VI the ma'lstrom which
mas engniphed hm II ey started the torrent
wn'cn mas hornc MN over Ale preelr'ce. They ga
'cu iYf'n from the ravernh she tempest wh,t,'
wrecked hum on n Sunken reef, Before God. and
IN tho hight ct Eternal truth. the disaster Mt lla'.
pers Ferry Is their net, aud not hIs.--Mny tn
suusso o. eaon ',c".n 70 t'e'r doe'r.'es OF ai""n,"''
n Ma. " "a ~. - ne"Vy ." 'he,' gn'ny souls.
Ivy ."e m'e 0 'ne prisoner whatever u may b..
u's'".n = SURVIVORS anu pn'id''o 'he'r arms
wno" 'hey are aHa'n r"iSou against IN" peace III
''e o'uh'ry anu 'n' ives OF It's '''iH'ns!
| know by the CLEAN Of each eye into which /
look In this j~ury-box, that il thtso mon could