Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-04-01

GOOD deal Of surprise, ! think, that your
Honor heard the boy and his father cali
cd to contradict this clear and positive
evidence. And vet they had the follyto
come upon the stand and willfoliy and
audaciously to deny it altogether. l be-
lieye that no one who heard them, no
one who witnessed that scene when,
more plainly than ever before saw it in
a court of justice, deliberate perjury was
nroved out of their own mouths when
the boy, conscious of his falsehood, stood
mute. but confessing bis crime by his
silence, with the fraud and the crime so
obvious, so awful, that in those moments
Of suspense you could hear the very si-
lence in the crowded court room. No one
who heard the boy that day, would say
that it is unnecessary or would be use
less to repeat weekly or daily to that son
of that father the awful command, Thou
shalt not bear false witness
have read some pathetic histories of
persecution for conscience sake / have
read Of martyrs whose meek and sanity
demeanor drew from their enemies tears
of rapturous dmiration-martyrs who
died in sublime self-oblivion, died in fiery
coronation robe, when the rolling smoke,
crimson-tinged, foated far up the sky,
vanishing in heaven as the pang and the
horror vanished also in the victory that
swallows upall strife.
| am afraid that do not appreciate
with sufficiently keen sensibility the
religious side of this present persecution
for conscience sake. I am afraid that /
am liable to a conviction for holding the
very heretical and abominable doctrine,
that the very interesting Thomas Whail,
and his very interesting boy, are terribly
+ given to drawing the long bow and
that their pretended tenderness of con-
science is mere moonshine on the water.
This quesiion-whether Whall and
his son are false or not, is very vital to
this cause, as viii presently show; and
I therefore, ask the Court to remember
the fathers evidence and the boys. The
, Court will remember that il was proved
t that this boy, and the other Catholic boys,
had been in the habit for years of repeat
t ling the Ten Commandments without OBJ
[ iection--a very material fact bearing
e upon the same vital question. to which /
0 am presently 20 ask your Honor's atten-
, ton. I have not only proved that this
: boy had done so, but tina. il particular,
c since September last up to the week of
:, the rebellion, he had done il constantly {;
r and yet in the face of this proof, the boy
h dared to stand up hers and swear boldly
Is under medal or other influences, that
O he had never once repeated them. His
It father dared to swear to the same thing,
= and be swore that for the last six years,
ever since his boy was four years old, he
a had forbidden bis boy to say the Protest.
ant Commandments. Had he really been
=, obliged to tell his son so? Sure he had,
If and he and the priest both had forbidden
- his boy to say them athousand tines
20 What a thousand times ? Yes faith,
and more than that, five thousand times
n, over, be forbid him aud me both Please
,e TO remember that you are on oath, Mr.
- Whall, before you repeat that ? Faith
#. and it was orer FIVE thousand times.'-
d What, You yourself have been forbid.
a den FIVE thousand times by your priest, &c
"a say the Ten Commandments 2 Yes
a. and indeed have, and more too, Wei
BY now, Mr.. Whall, please to remember tina
al you are upon oath, and tell the Court o
al even one time when anybody asked yor
=? to say the Ten Commandments and wher
. it was necessary even once for the priest
AT to forbid you? Thomas was in Difficult
n ty. Oh! that's no NATTER says he
lal Pray tell me, Mr.. WhalI, name on,
on time ont Of the five thousand
he 'Oh! didn't mind when it was, say
all be. Can't you tell once out of all tn,
nd five thousand" A light of inspiration
for suddenly flashed upon him, and thel
,er with a cool impudence, and a ready lie
eh which he enjoyed as much as any one
s. which no one could hear without smile
- Faith, it was in the ould country the
%. did it, says he. He evidently though
al he could get out of the way Of cross-ex
Of aminatiois If lac could but take refug
lat IN his native bogs. But il was all in yair
the So it was 10 old Ireland that you wer
- told five thousand times by your prize
ant that you must not say the Ten Command
tel ments, was it ? TO be sure it wa
inc your Honor who ever supposed it Wa
the any where else p
IT, But vino asked Won IN sa1, The Pr,