New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-04-12


se ,pcosn',rsd Mr. Key upcer'he Circumstances Bad
ing 10 tis ds.'h, bee REMEMBER t'is-there Eas
re celebration on TIE part OF Mr. ckes 10 mestos
Mr. Key. II Mr. Siekbes bed tsTorn ont bst-ii be
Ase nyte6 Mr. Key TO that vicinity 10 order that be
mig ht 20 forth from bis marsion arm d. az be was
reperied TO be by the learned counsel tor the pross
enon 80 the end that he might slsy him then t1'Te
mig BIT be tatlre 10 the case eh might spoe ue'
Bet there 10 no such feature hsTe. Mr. Ny was in
toe peilhbcrhood ~ Mr. Sokless manson, Ton wing
tke bert Of ke own i'm 2io1s ard wicked insheE1on'.
The very ferociy Of ts attack, as 90 tue
4syt o. the proeecntOb-tbe very wurdsr02F onf~
wAseh thew have tried " inps-t % Il, shoss most
tey what the state Vi mind snicn p'oisp1o
bin 10 the commission Of TIE act. las y p-akng
act M. Sictles encounters Mr.. hey Ftooa, aty
errec4atiers vb.teyer lie meets bin az casually ne
though lie had met the yefie't suAnSrfi aDd tne
very erociiy with which the witnesses cay he west az
Mr Key and slew bm, is iodicsiVe OF we ureeI.bole
imnn,,. cb drove him on spd sgsiust which II was
10 oppose any resstacce. Inere ~, thsre
tore nvthps IKE dehb ration 10 the case TIE isfoIy
Of the ssssor, portrayed IN the testm"n', 10 "a
ye,v fat ALB We al otbeJs, which S0a rely 10
shox the fri Zed mind Of the who the author
OF the act AZ have already ssd, grief despair and
yeyerRe ard ell these feelings ale * ;ted ~ sucn
proyoeation not sppeslog 20 shy particular one, bat
s.rrR ali these ltmeLts of TIE nbd IN the tr,'e ard
contest fJr supremacy. Urdsr these ercums,ances
wll the July ssy thai reason e1erteo shy sTay sbd
sooh battle OF passions, when vac ln t1st
the ear Of bis iod could hseb D. the euce Of res
cor or cOufcsbcs He referred the Curt % the Gaze
Of Major X ebert O~nsey, IL Sta,e fnas, and the
Queen against tsher 10 illus Tsoo Of tbe present case
There wac cooling time there FOQlt be 90 cooling
within the compass Of eii ne as often ~ reminis
eebce sbal recad the Of mis- wife bis 81 tement
vii blaze up vith all it, fdry. lie referred 10 the
Gaze 10 Eugnsh TRIALS where father slew another fox
committing sodomy Oh his son-a crime 80 h rrl0e 10
ns character as 4 OF TO be named among Cnrlsuansi
the lao fourteen fifteen years OF sge y@lfsd himself
10 the unbslioEed lost Of msn the fsthe- o-ariog OF
the crime huLted him out and pursued himior whole
bisbt, ard, hsviog fOdDd him deliberately sleH hia
Wond any jury ray there were any such ieefngs OF
purity in this those when att 7cn 10 Wl'e
IL Cf the essence of human nstore tn love woman
with tenderness which does not ideoy itself with
any other passion This forms the most enthG;iAstc,
tie most msddeninR paesop, which clusters ar0utd
woman al invests her WITH her csins 10 projection.
The more the O6sDse is contemplated the more 1t mad
dens. Although the father deliberately slew tue man
Who perpetrsted the horrible crime, and although
the Judge charged the Jury thst they mast con-
Wet him of murder, yet the Jury, in the face
Of the law, cOnyiced hin only or the eume
Of usbslsughter. parallel might DO drawn
between the TWO cases In the hftt the father, after
spendm all night in pursuing the 6feoder, executed
vengsaIos. In this the afultAr0us conduct o. Mr..
Key thrust him sell against Mr. SckIes as he passed
him; in moment the train expodedi ani oecsuse the
SIor eed husband tuumsrly sle. him be is an4lgned
here ss q crimiosl Mr.. 81 Bles unlike the father re-
ferred ~, had no time tO manifest such Indications OF
metal uDsoundtess as those which attach themselves
TO oenfes Of this kinds lac could not call In witnesses
10 zee the craZiness under which he committed the
act but uno or such state Of mind as these cucun-
stances would naturally produce, Mr.. Sickks con
nited the act :Or which IT Is sought to deprive NJ
of existence. Now, Gentlemen avery brief narrative
of this csse and .ha submit il 10 YOU 50 far as the
Opening is concerned Let us ask who were the parties
TO this Transaction AZ have said before, shall
speak no nj kind word Of Mr.. Key shall put the facts
before yOu leave them 10 speak Ia you as human
ity AIsBys will speak under cirCumstibces Ike the
present Mr.. Key wac man Of about forty years
OF sge, as am ioforned; be had been married
map ard at this very time he had the monuments
Of tbtt sacred relation daily before him 10 warn
him OF the wickedness Of his conduct; be himself had
assumed ia. marriage yos and sDes the solemuty OF
IL; he could tel himself shat would be HE own ieel-
ipgs II bis own bed bad been violated, and he could
very veil conceive to himself how he would act he
had discovered the author Of that violation His pro-
fession, too was such as should have impaired some
gravity to his character There are some occupatOas
which do not interfere with the frvoty OF human ma
tuIe but There is any profession 10 this world short
OF the pulpit which eau and ought ~ have sanched,
If may 80 speak, the human mind and communicate
gravity TO il which ID not ts natural yestmeut II Is
the profession TO which bsong-it IA the profession
10 which Mr.. Key belonged. The very blsiness Of
our prOfessiC is TO study out the rights of other men,
and 10 have them observed. OF all the duties which
are east upon us ami the last of all that We can be
excused nom, is the performance OF stufylog
out out Of the social aud the personal reia'
tons Of man TO man, and the duties that attach
10 tbofe relations is the first Oilics aud the
principal business Of our profession, and Therefore
lawyer, above all others, before every tribunal wheth
er be erected in the rch of heaven upon the fac
oftfe earth entitled TO the lesst charitable consd
GRAFTON. What, too, was his portion He was tn
Iosecutrg officer OF this ID strict. lie selected
TO conserve the esuse Cf public deceDcy. IL WAS his
Business to zee that homes were projected agains
sedpceIs adulterers and every other species of Grim
mol; yet he wrapped himself ia the garb of hypOc
Iicy, came into this Court and hunted down, with au
alnnott unparalleled soccess the mere worms that
crawl upon face of the earth, while the iu grown
mar " crime suoh as he himself was, was permitted
to stalk through your community not only not pun
ist ed but not admoDished fer IL. Now, this is
the character Of this aduerer. is there word here
that is not strictly true Who was the womsn with
whom be committed this adultery Young enough 10
be bis daughter. What her disposition may be know
not but reasoning from her years and from our kuo VI
ecge Of the structure Of woman IL lie not too much
10 suppose that all the frivoity that surrounds a
women at that age enviroped her; that she was sus
ceptble to hstteTy that she susceptible TO the
attentions of men, and locked upon them many
of, rings csst upon the shrine of beauty At her
period Of HE the marriage vow had not impressed
itself with all lis gravity upon her mi nd; she did not
experience fully the meaning Of the terms by which
abe had surrendered herself, body and sou TO the
osnershp and control Of her husband. IL there ever
care in which man was tempted by ~omsn,
he should have initiated the example of Joseph, VINO
left his garment in the hands of POtip1Grs we.
This was case above all others in shiCh man,
he fell under the dominion Of hs lust should have left
behind him some proof which, by the mendac'y Of
the woman, night be tortured into evidence OF HE
guilt. Who Was the husband 10 this case lie
Is man, not quite Of the age with
Mr. Key; be accredited TO your city
member Of the councils OF the nation he came from
tire great commercal metropolis Of continent that
city upon which every part of the Union looks WITH
pride, and which, ho sever Objectionable o. its
features may be, nevertheless, every American bear,
vii copoede Is the first city cf our Unon he here
in the sphere q euty, And by way Of showing Mr. hey
and you the confidence he plsced in tee protection
which was guaranteed to hin by the Ia Of your
District In bringing within it, precincts his wife and
his child he threw them and himself upon yiu and the
IN al We