The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-11-08

wendell Phillips ON Brew MS Trial.
Amongst the many bitter and extravagant
things put forth y Wendell Phillips in his
recent speech in Brooklyn, we find some
singing truths Of very great signifosnss.--
He says for instance:
You will remember, oil OF you, citixens Of
the United States, that there was not Vir-
ginia gun fred at John Brown. Hundreds
OF well armed Maryland and Virginia troops
that went there never dared to pull trigger.
You shot him Sixteen marinss, to whom
you pay 3s month--your own fspresenta-
tives. When the disturbed State could not
stand on her own legs for trembling, you
won't thsre and strengthened the feeble knees
and held up the palsied hand. Sixteen men,
wash the vuiture Of the Union above them
lssnsationl--your representatives! IL was
the covenant with death and agreement with
bell, which you call the Union Of thirty States,
that took the old man by the throat with
pirate hand; and, ii he is hung, it will
strangls him with disgrace, for 1t will be the
Disgrace Of our civilization if q gallows 10
ever erected in Virginia that bears his body.
'sThe most reeolute man ! ever Saw says
Gov. Wise; s'the most daring, the COOLEST
would trust his truth about any question:
The sincerestp Sincerity, courage, rssolute
daring Virginia has nothing--nothing for
those qualities but scafold! [Applsuse.
Ia her broad dominion she can only afford
him six feet for . grave! God help the Com
monwealth that bids such welcome to the no.
olest qualities that can grace poor human
nature! Yet that is the Acknowledgment of
Gov. Wise himself!
Here 10 man arraigned before a jury, or
about to be. The State OF Virginia, as she
calls herself, is about to try him. The first
step in that trial is jury; the second 10
Judge; and at the head stands the Chief Ex-
ecutive of the State, who is to put his hand
to the death warrant before it can be execu-
ted; and yet that very Executive, who, accord
ing to the principles Of the sublimest chapter
IA AlgeFnsn Sidney immurtxi book, il bound
BY tho very responsibility that rests on him,
TO keep his mind impartial as to the guilt Of
the person arr1igned, hastens down to Rich
mond, hurries to the platform, and proclaims
to the assembled and representative Com
monwealth Of Virginia, "The man is muir
derer, and ought to be hung" Almost ev-
sry lip in the State might have said it except
that single lip Of its Governor; and the mo-
mont he had uttered these words, in the the
DRY Of the English Law it was not possible to
impannsl an impartial jury in the Common
wealth Of Virginia, it was not possible to get
the materials and the machinery to try him
according to the ugtiest pattern Of English
Jurisprudence. And yet the Governor does
net know that he has written himself down .
knave, and the Commonwealth that he gov
erns supposes it is still Christian polity.-
They have not the faintest conception Of what
goes to make up Government. Why the
worst Jeffries that was ever tried in the dark.
est moment, or ever climbed up . lamp-post
in the streets of London, would not have tried
. man who could not stand on his feet
There 10 no such record in the blackeN roll
OF tyranny. IL ono single bono OF Jefries
RENAME unrotted, it would knock against the
sides Of its cofhn in protest against any Judge
that had exceeded even theinfamy Of JsGries
by trying John Brown lying on q COUCH
lApplause,J And yet the New York press
daily prints the accounts Of the trial. Trial!
Trial! Why, the Inquisition used to break
every other bone in q mans body, and then
lay him on pallet, giving him neither coun-
sci nor opportunity to consult one, and then
wringiag from his tortured mouth something
like confession, call il trial. But it was
heaven-robed innocence compared with the
trial, or what the New York press call so,
that has been going on in the alarmed and
frightened city Of Charlestown. / speak
what will be but the breath and whisper OF
the summer breeze, compared with the tor
nado of rebuke that will come back from the
press of Great Britain, when they hear that
We affect to call that jury trial, and make
the long catalogue Of English jurists dis
graced and infamous BY the companionship.
Indian LsEisIatur In Session.