The Van Buren press., 1859-12-23
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Tho Richmond DispatcS Of the 18Th
publishes entire. the speesb of the H,p
DAHL w. YonurEs. OF I. llama fel;vor.
ed at Charlie ,oY,. Nov. Sin, N 3ct,ooc, ri
John E. Cook. Il IS one ii ,iic inoa. .,,.
quent speeches ever delivsrsa in q sonst q,
justice. We repabiish lie anncxsa ex
tracts not7only because OF tiebir boaatv, but
because Of the truthful pielafo theron bGi
drawn by a Nor'hcrn maa, but ors wa,,.
evidently has national hs.es OF z5sas Of
tho principal ai]eas ead .fr.4ors n $:
fearful crinies which have Consigned =,
| to the gallows
Who ,s.Joan f. Cool. .
He has the right l,iIaseit t. be heard b..g.e
you but wiI answer i9i ui,a Sprung
| from IN ancestry af loyal estac,,r.cut b tls
American Goyernnent ne .AiIect.a no blood
OF tainted impaTilv HiE grandfather an
officer OF the tez5tg.iou oy which vorr
liberty as we. a. .-.ne s. s achiey -, "a
his grey haired father, who lives to weep
oTer him, soldier of the. War of 1872, he
brings no dishonored lineage into your pres
enee. If the blood which = w, IN his veins
has been offered against your peace, the
same blood in the veins of those from whose
loins he sprang has been offered in fierce
shock OF battle and foreign invasion in be-
half of the people OF Virginia and the
Union. Born of a parent stock occupying
the middle walks of life, and possessed of
all those tender and domestic virtues which
escape the contamination of those vices that
dwell on the frozen peaks, or in the dark
and deep caverns of society, he would not
have been here had precept and example
been remembered in the prodigal wander
ings of his short and chequered life. Poor,
deluded boy ! wayward, misled child An
evil hour presided over thy natal hour and
smote it with gloom: The hour in which
thy mother bore thee and blessed thee as
her blue eyed babe upon her knee is to her
now one of bitterness as she stands near
the bank of the chill rivG of death and
looks lack on Il name hitherto unspotted
and as pure as the unstaiEed snow. May
God stand by and sustain her, and pre-
serve the mothers of Virginia from the
waves of sorrow that now roll over her.
Not only the ancestry OF John L. Cook, |
but all with whom his life S now bound up
stand before the country IS your friends, |
and tire friends Of the Constitution as hand /
cd down to us by the valor and wisdom OF
shington. L will not shrink from the
full and absolute recognition of my position.
| You and |, gentlemen of the jury can have
no secrets in this ease from one another
| We will Withdraw the curain and look one
another fully in the face. a citizen of the
State in which live, who by virtue of his /
| brilliant and comnandingintcllect, and be-
cause of his sound nationll principles, has |
been placed at an early peiod of his life in
| the highest position in thopowcr ola State |
! to give, is here beside PIC, and wears near
/, his heart a sisters hkcncssto this boy. And
there is not in the wide wsrld, ON the broad
green face of the earth a nan whose heart
| is not wholly abandsned b selfish depravi-
| ty, who will not say that lis presence here
/ is commended by honor, love, duty, and
fidelity to all that cnoblcsAur poor fallen
race. Let poor, miserablt dcspised, loath-
ed, spurned and abhorrenImiscreant cavil
and Tcvile at this proud az Of painful duty. |
The true and eternal impises OF .ho hu-
man heart. the world ovt constitute our
appellate court.
| But, geaaemen, in estimating the magni-
ftn,,o of .hisyoung man s5uilt, there is one
fact which is proven in ls behalf by the
current history Of the dat which you can
not fail to consider. sHi John E. Cook
perish, and the rea, Grim Ials who for TWEEN /
ty years have taught tc principles on
which he acted, hear ndyoice from this
spot? Shall no mark bdlaaed on them
Shall this occasion pas away, and the
prime fclons who attaeA your soil and
murdered your citizens q Harper's Ferry
escapes? The indictmS before us says
that the prisoner was scdted by the false
and malignant counsels other traitorons
persons. Never was a sentence written
more Just and true. false and malig-
nant counsels !" have In dropping for
years. as deadly and b!i{ting as the Bo-
hun Uphas tree, from ta tongues of evil
and traitorous persons that section of the
! Union to which the prisicr belongs. They
have seducei not only hi mind, but many
others, honest and misa.iel like him, to
regard the crime at Hafr's Ferry as no
crime, your rightsias uiitigated wrongs,
and the Constitution othe country as
league with hell and a drcnant with death
4 On the skirts Of the lea3rs of abolition ia
naticism in tn, North il dvery drop CT blood
shed in the egilict at HEper's Ferry on
their souls rssts the Grind of murder for ev-1
cry life there lost, and althc watcs of tn,