New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-12-19


horrd scenes 81 the West indies, When tils south.
ern man shall turn pale and trenlble, yhen your
dwellings shall smoke with the torch Of the incen-
diary, and dismay SIT on each connfenance, he will
hall Y as tfe approaching dawn Of that political
viii come upon the world. The atrocfty Of these
sentiments chs the blood Of honest patriots, an1
70 part Of the prisoners equals their bloody il.
ySfs shsn tle s, "a leader escape and the yenae
told the prisoner that what he did was right, 90
NJ scathed Of the lightning which he has unclianeds
II 50. Justice has fed from her temples on earth,
right between man and man. The men who have
Hised this boy to his ruin shall here receive my
maledictions. They shrink back from him now in
the The hour Of MS calamity They lift up their hands
Internal orgies have summoned up. You hear
them, all over the land, calculating through false,
pale, coward lips, Thou canst not say did 4, ?
has been shed, and which yet awaits the extreme
penalty of the law. False ieeting perjured trait
false 70 those who have acted upon your
principles false to friends well country, and
perjured before the Constitution Of the Republic;
ministers who profess to be of God, who told this
boy TO carry Sharpe's rife to Kansas instead Of
his mother Bible shall This jury, this court, and
this country forget their guilt and their infamy he
cause victim e their preeepts yielding up his
life before your May God forget me, If here, IN
the presence Of this pale face, forget to denounce
with the withering, bligaing, blasting power of
Northern states ~ ti;s iror = ''s
The visionary mind Of the prisoner heard from
member Of Congress from Massachusetts that
Ia he inarenrated mi Il rssss n m. cvt :.
They were e. 10 mem hecs,,se fhs, .ss.s -
antislavery, for the old Constitution, and the old
God ~ IsraeI the SANE ~ ~, 80
ever. were not On he sids 81 abolisionism. 4
there NO mitiration for his doom Il M fst fhst te
coward taught him mt dare not himsen .ttent;
RaseA nnsiianmol.s dsna have la ~ -.
oner ID Tie bar. but while &c suiIersn suiser =
must they, too, shall have their recreans limbs
virginia i win not lei Iris awful OCCASION pas INTO
hisforv vitinut irvine ,,cr osSl A r.tfarorcs -
H. trne purnort IA vo.t IT, na ,rncn
to bear henceforth md forever. Day amer iiay
and wear after wear haa the kaiefnl slSo1, 81 ravo
luton. anarchy. diecord. h0sfility n NJ 6ff nj
her INSTITUTIONS swept over M noft;Su m M
country IN which the lot n tle nri1eusr IA leer
| cast That he has been noisonrsd ~ n hr,s4S
| should not cut him on from hur,an Sy1anS4kv.
rather should Il render every heart cIecs Sasr5f
him. He never sourht place 81 station I'M sorl9ff
| merely 10 deyeloD t6ose doctrines Nhieh en- snd
4 traitorous persons had caused hjI1 u believe were
true Ministcrs editors ma politiefsuE nut Is ~
| ton the maelstrom which hos enRuflS "a III Trey
started the torrent which haa borne him over q
-
1 tempest which wrecked him on nken Feefs ~
fore God and in the light Of Eternal 2sulI IL a..
aster at Harper's Ferry Il their act ~ w Il,
Nav the ghost of each victim to their d0etrias q
disnnion and abomination sit heavy on Their eop]s
Nav the fate Of the prisoner whichever RI nav n.
disturb their slumbers and paralyxe their afzi1
when they are again raised against The peace 81
\ the country and the lives Of its citizens knew
by the CLEAN Of each eye into which look IN tlis
jtiry box that If these men could CHARGE u1St.es
n with young Cook you would gladly say o. HI,
-. Co. erring and repentnnf youth onf yereSariels
shall fall on those who paid their money, On
the attack and guided the blow. y Let ~ sppeal
to you gentlemen of the jury id ne name IL eter-
n nal truth and everlasting right M 10 ID for.
Il given to youth to inexnericnce u eSsltaes lind
heart 10 waywardl and peculiar though not vicious
character strangely ant to be led by nI3r,
ences?
Il have shown you what those influences ges,er.
ally and specially have been over the mind 81 the
prisoner. / have shown Won the maIipn infnence
j Of his direct leader, have shown YOU also. m
false and malignant counsels I, in behalf Of fhis
sad enterprise emanatinr from the,aa in nlane
!. mower and nositi0n II might have been vant
prodipal son borne away and selueed ~ ssncI,
ccounsels, as well as nv young client. Do VIII
T him as you would have your own child dealt by
under like circumstances. He has been stoleii,
from the principles Of lis ancestors and betrayeti
from the teaclinus Of his Kindred. If he Mas vonr
own handsome child, repentant, and confessing his
wrong to his country, what would you wish jury
of strangers to do 7? That do yourselves By that
. rule guide yonr verdict, and the Door boon 81
mercy will not be cut off from him. He Thought
the country was about to be convulsed that the
aIaya ras .,in;nn fnr an ~ rse
we Pii ~ a ~ iise .ssa.4ies
MS master; IHaI tWO-tniTus OF the laDoflDS pOpu
latiOn of the country. North and South WOuid H0cE
In tbc atandard of ayolt 4bat n e;nola 1oy ,yo,l
~ .e .s. VI 49, = s.'ltio ICY o'i a
DfilS Ten, nIty-yea, u hundred thousand mefl--t0
arms in behalf of the nsurrection OF the slave,
This i. n, av;,lanca Who "a. f,.
~. \, " n Wy II W sic
teffiby lalse VIEWS anu Wu'tl KIM OF q Vlsl0Hafy
and dreaming d mind i that which has 90 Fatally
plant to The impressions. whether for good or fol
evil by which It Is surrounded let his frss inter
view with Gov. Willard in the presence ST you,
Senator, Col Mason bear witness. His error was
placed before him, His wrong to his family arld
his country was drawn by a patriotic, and at The
same time an afectionate hand. His natural beirn
at once asserted its sway The influence Of GOOD
and not of evil once more controlled him, az iIthe
DAYS of his childhood; and now here before Won
he has the merit Mt least of oyaI citizen nakina
all the atonement in his power for the wrong who'll
he has committed. That he Inns told strictly the
truth in his statement is proven by every word 81
evidence in this case
Gentlemen. YOU have this case. / surrender into
your hands the issues Of life and DEATH As long
as you live, a more important case than this You
viii never be called to try Consider it, therefore,
well N az " hearings nave tred 70 SHOW you
prisoner. Shall go home ana say that IN Justice