The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-16


cept II texpected It," /, too, accept il in the
same Hight, and SO will the country. Those
VINO taughf, and not those who believed and
aclen, are Inc men ofcrime In the sight OF God.
my power. from the fatal snare which has
0sen tigntened around the hopes and destiny
oI Jonn +. Cook, and To show who are fully re-
sponsibie for his conduct. intend to link
with TINS trial the names Of wiser aud older
men than he; and If he is TO be punished and
consigned To wretched doom, they shall
s.aHd beside him in the public stocks; they
shaii De piiioried forever in public shame as
tne evil and traitorous persons who sednced
MIN to his ruin by their false and malignant
connsels.
The chief OF these men, the leader of great
party, a Senator of long standing has
law than the Constitution. which guarantee
To each man the full exercise of his own incii-
nation The prisoner before you has simply
acied on The law OF VIM. III. Seward, and not
the law of his fathers. He has followed the
Mahomet of an incendiary faith Come forth,
ye sages OF abolitionsm, who now COVER and
skulk under hasty denials of your completely
with the bloody result of yonr wicked and Gn-
hoiy doctrines and take your places on the
witness stand Tell the world why this thing
has happened. Tell this jury why they are
trying John E. Cook for his life You advised
ms conduct and taught him that he was doing
right You taught him higher law and then
pointed out to him the field OF action. Let
facts be submitted. Mr.. Seward, in speaking
OF slavery, says: at can and must be aboi-
ished, and you and must dol it.' What worse
oid the prisoner attempt! Again he said, upon
TINS same subject, "Circn ms iances determine
possibilities aud dou BLESS the circumstances
with which John Brown had connec ted his
plans made them possible in his estimation; for
1t Is In evidence before the country, unm-
reached and uncontradicted, that the great
Senator of New York had the whole matter
submitted to him, and only whispered back, in
response, that he had better not been told. He
cAd an Irra sit,t Ia pHu lisf
between the Tree and slave States of this Union.
These seditous phrases, ''nieher law and sir
repressibie Conflict warrant and invite the
construction which the prisoner aud his young
deiuded companions placed upon them YET
they are either in chains, with the frightful
gibbet in full view, or sleep in dishonore6
graves, while the apostle and master-spirrt6f
tnsnrrectlon Is loaded with honors and fires
sumptuOusiy every day. Such is poor short
handed Justice in this world.
An old man and for long years a nlSmbei Of
the National Congress from Ohio. ke1t shall
testify here before You that he tang the pris-
oner the terrible error which VOW Involves
his life. Servi!e insurrectionY have forever
been on the tongue and lips of j Joshua K. Gid
dings. lie says '.that when the contest shall
come when the thunder shall roll and the
lightning flash, and when the slaves shall rise
la the South in imitation of the horrid scenes
of the West Indies, when the Southern man
shall turn pale and tremble, when your dwell
ilngs shall smoke with the torch OF the incen-
diary, and dismay sit on each countenance, he
Will nail 1t as the approaching dawn of thai
poiIiI and moral millennium which he Is
we'll assured Will come upon the world.'' The
atrocity OF these sentiments chiliS the blood o1
honest patriots, and part of the prisoner
| equals their bloody import Shall the old
| leader escape and the young follower die p
| Shall the teacher whose doctrines told the
| prisoner that what he did was right, go I'm.
| scathed OF the lightning which he has unchain
| ed. Ii so, Justice has fed from her temples
| on earth, and awaits us only onshigh to mea
n ,Vaf l.
| The men who have misied this boy to his ruin
| shall here receive my maledicfions, The3
| shrink back from him now in the hour of HI;
| calamity. They lit mp their hands and say
| Amen to the bloody spectacle which their la
| fernal orgies have summoned up You heaI
them all over the land calculating through
| false, pale, coward lips, ssThcu canst not say
| did it, when their hands are reeking with al
| the blood that has been shed and which We
| awaits the extreme penalty of the law. False
| fleeting, perlured traitors; false 10 those VIII
| have acted upon your principles; false I
friends as well as country, and perjured be
| fore the Constitution of the Repu public-minis
ters who profess TO be of God who told thi
boy here to carry Sharp's rife to Kansas in
stead of his mothers Bible-shau this jury
this court, aud this country forget their gui
and their infamy because a victim TO their pre-
cepts is yielding up his life before you Ma
| God forget ME III l here, in the presence of thi
pale face, forget to denounce with the withel
ing, blighting, blasting power ofmajes tic trutl
States of this Union
The visionary mind of the prisoner hear
from q member of Congress from MassdchI
setts that a new constitutions, a new Bible al
a new God were to be inaugurated and 10 po:
sesS the country. They were to be aeU, b,
cause they were TO be anti-slavery, for the oil
constitution, and the old Bible, and the God
our fathers, the ancient Lord God of 1srae
the same yesterday, to-day, aud forever, wei
not on the side of abolitioniSm. Is there n
mitigation for his doom IN the fact that he too
his life in his hand, and aimed at that which
| coward taught him, but dared not himself a
tempt. Base, pusilianimous demagogues hay
led the prisoner To the barr but while he Su
| fers-if suffer he must-thev. too, shall hay
their recreant limbs broken on the wheel.
| will not leave the soil of Virginia, win nc
let this awful occasion pass into history, VIII
| out giving Il voice and an ntterance To its ira
| purport and meaning, without heaping upo
its authors the load of execration which the
| are 10 bear henceforth and forever. Day afte
| day aud year after year has the baiefui simoo
| of revolution, anarchy, discord, hostility
the South and her institutions, swept owe
that section of the country in which the lot c
| the prisoner has beer cast That he has bee
poisoned by its breath, should not cut him o
from human sympathy; rather should
render every heart clement toward him.
He never sought place or station, but sough
merely to deyelope those doctrines whic
evil and traitorous persons had caused him
| believe were true. Ministers, editors, an
| Observation-Disclosures, Parker, Seward, GRID
dings, Sumner, Hale, and host of lesse
| lights of each clasS-who in this courtroom
who in this vast country, who In the wild
| world who shall read this trial, believes ther
| not guilty, as charged in the Indictment i
all the courts, to deeper and far more fearfu
| extent than John f. Cook! Midnight giooi
is not more sombre in contrast with tn
| blazing light of the meridian sun than is IN
guilt of such men in comparison with th.
| which oyerwhelms the prisoner. They put /
motion the naelstromi which has enguiphe
him. They started the torrent which ha
| borne him over the precipiee. They eaiie
! forth from the caverns the tempest whic
| wrecked him on q snnken reef. Before Got
aud in the light of Eternal truth, the disas Il
at Harper's Ferry is their act, and not his
| May the ghost of each victim to their doc
| trines of disunion and abomination sit heav
on their guilty souls! May the fate OF ii
| prisoner, whatever il may be, disturb the
SUMMERS and paralyze their arms when the
| are again raised against the peace of the coui
| Try and the lives Of its citizens!
know by the CLEAN of each eye into whc
| l lookin this jury-box, that if these men eoul
change places with young Cook, you wou'
gladly say to him, $50, erring and repentaI
youth, our vengeance shall fall on those VIII
| paid their money, urged on the attack, ali
guided the blow. Let me appeal 10 You, gel
tlemen Of the jury, in the name OF Etern;
truth and everlasting right, Is nothing to
| forgiven to youth, to iaexperience, to gentl
kind heart, to wayward and peculiar thong
not vicious character, strangely apt 10 be IL
by present influences I l have shown yo
what those influences, generally aad special
iy, have been over the mind OF the prisoner.
have shown you the Inaiign influence of h
direct leader. l have shown you, also, tn
sfalse and malignant counseis" III behalf
this sad enterprise, emanating from those i
place. power, and position. 1t might hay
been your prodig,i son borne away and 81
duced by such counsels, rs we'll as my youn
| client DO with him you would have you
own child dealt by under like circumstance
| h.. bs.1u >fa
ancestors aud betrayed from the teachings {
his kindred. Ii he was yonr own handsoin
child repentant and coniessing his wrong !
his country, what would yon wish jury {