The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-04-25

anOutQ De held 10 De feghI pkooi oi ~ eot
in case Of any crime. Que charged with IL IL 70 go
| free ii jury thiuk thatlhder any circumstances
| he may possibly have been inasness Mr.. Carlisle
here referred the authorities to chow that possi
biIity ofinsanity 10 no proof Of insanity, but that
| that state of mind must be incontostihy proved
| MIR. brady here asked the Court 20 look at its
own ruling the case Of Benz. ogIe as bearing on
thia point OF insanity.
Mr.. Carlisle would not argue upon tho Ggle
| case as the District Attorney Was more familiar
| with that than himself lie would refer the Court
to the answers OF the English judges to the ques-
tions OF Parliament put to them growing OUT OF
that case. The speaker here named Two other
cases he proposed TO cite as sooon a. be could get
| the books con taiuIDg them from his otfice.
The jury then took recess. On returning to
their box, at ten minutes to O'Clock
Mr. Stanton, for the defebce, addressed the court
| on the instructions offered. When Ae commenced
| there was o profcn nd silence in the courtaroom
! The defence contepded that there were two
theories Of law that had been urged in this case
One was that insanity was the result of the cou-
duct Of the deceased The very existence of civil
| society depends on the family relations. John
Milton says that the chastity and purity Of social
relations depends on the lessons taught in the IA
mily circle. Other distinguished moralists held
| the same doctrine. The family embraces the res
lations Of husband and wife, brothers and sisters
| rents and child
The first great principle of the family circle was
that of husband and wife. But for that, society
would soon degenerate into iicentious barbsrisrn
earthly happiness we're not protected by law-if
be could not lawfully keep out the aduitsse<. The
dignity aud permauence of the marital institution
depends on the purity of the wife, not the lack
of it ia the conduct OF the hu sband; why and how
he explained. When a man receives womaLs
hand IN wedleck, be receives it with the marriage
VOW, which he repeated. 1t was solemn vow
"Those whom God has Joined, let no man put
asuDder."
1t matters not what might have been the hus
bands or the wife's character and conducS before
marriage. bad mans home may be his all
Under God, the marriage institution weans bad
nen from sin, and secures the performance OF
mans duties. The seal OF marriage is no idle
moBy the solemn ordeal of law that hereafter
no man may look at her disturb the peace of
the family. 1t iDsures their home. This law,
though not found ia act of Congress, was written
when the frs! pair were put in the Garden of
Eden Every woman, taking the marriage
VOW, means TO keep it,
No woman yields up her virtue to the adulterer
until he has won her affections from her husband.
Her heart is yielded up before her body Thus her
husband 10 robbed of honor, peace and all his other
soiemniy sanctioned martial rights. Here Mr.. Stan
ton Grew beautiful and pUeiic picture Of the reia
tions oi parent aud Child, and held that when the
adulterer's shadow came between them, it was dis
| astrOas TO both father aud child Nature designed
that the mothers care and honor it's greatest
treasures, and that to be robbed of it grievoCs
cruelty 10y the aduiterer. The pride and glory Of
the family was its band of brothers and sisters
When the adulterer puts young wife from her
husband, hecuts off the Child from all her relatives;
alone, henceforth, must she journey through ifs,
bowed down with load OF shame. Such are the
results OF the adu erers act the home, as aown
and recognized by the law, aud as belongs to the
family OF every man. They show the adniterer to
be the destroyer OF every site association and
affection Ia Holy Writ the adulterer's crime is
pronounced 20 admit of ne rtcompense or ransom
We can understand Why i; ia twice forbidden in the
| Ten Commandments, and why Jehovah made it the
risnt ol every man TO participate in the killing of
the adulterer. Christ had mtigated the punish
nent OF the aduIteress, but not that of the adul.
terer.
Mr. 3 continuing, arg ned thar the adulterer had
been put TO death by the husband ere The adulte.
ress "as Drought to the feet of Christ, in Jerusa
lem. lben tue Mosaic law had passed away there
and The Romish law had taken it's place there The
aduiterer mad been slain, and the woman was
brought to the feet of Christ, to entrap him either
TO pronounce against the Mosaic law in the hus.
| pahds case or against the Roman in the woman .
case-to usurp the fuDctious IF the Roman courts,
| Tor which he would have been held answerable
react OF adultery, according TO the established
| principle of English and American law, did lot
| e1teno exclusively TO being taken iD tho Ii
fo1pd uuder the bed, or leading mau's wife to a
secret place, provided for the purpose by himself
or II ne provide such place, or be found signal-
| zing mars wife 70 entce her from her husbands
! house to commit adultery, then he taken in the
| act.
! Ii he take the child and leave it at a friends
| house while takiug the mother to his place of as.
sleBaton, II Is the coidest and deliberate &C
| OF adultery. The poor mother Can be plunged in 10
| but one lower point of degradatiou-inlo common
| prostitution Can she not be saved? There is no
chance o. saving her, bat one--the K llir OF ii
aduiterer Lawiess love is as shoryiivea inI-
| lDa, and Is speedily supplanfed by some fresher
love, and the loatLed one is speedily cast off for
| some fresher victim. Her only rescuer mus. be
her hustaud and the prayer of society Will be,
May dnd guide tie husbands bullet GApplause
| The prosecution say that the husband shall not
| sh6u The aQUttef0f's blood. the hat M
| may shed hetacomb of lives to save his wife,
| That has been done 10 millions of cases. The de-
| iehce meant TO plant their case on The law of tins
| land, Of the home, aud The family He would Law
| down here four proposioDs
| lst The husband acquires legal interest and
| absolute right Oh his wife.
"a. This absolute right being destroyed by the
adultery, and the aduiterer is slain, the act oil
Staying Is beither murder nor manslaughter
| 3D. The act OF killing in Justification not con.
lned To the moment CT sexual intercourse.
| Ain That the Tite's consent does not interfere
with the husbands rights, aud that he may trea.
| tue auuiterer-the vile conseBtipg-as though he
| we're a Iavsher.
Senator Douglas set at the table of the counsel
| an apparent attentive listener TO the arguments
On the conclusion OF Mr.. Stsnton's remarks, the
Court adjourned until Monday.
| Among the letters received by the counseI on
either side from various parts OF the country one
was received yesterday morning by Mr. brady
from lady, signing herself, in Greek characters
olympia Aiken," aud describing herself as zone
OF the order OF fraity-oue of the simple waiter,
for the wave of some masc uine pocket handk or.
chief" The letter is dated from West Randolph
W., and asks TIE cpunsels attention to the follow
lug extracts FROM white Lies"-
"Pd have DO wasps round my honey. If my
wife took lover, would not lecture the woman
what's the use! I'd kill the man, then an,
there. I'd xiii him in doors out. I'd kill bin
as would kill snake. If she took another, Pt
send him after the first, and on till one k,et
me-"