The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-03-15
MILITARY TRIAL.
coaTINrUED.l
EME PROSECUTION.
Synopsis of the Judge Advocates Speeel


Synopsis of the Judge Advocates Speech.
This being thesday appointed by the
Commission for the Judge. Advocate to
read iis final argument in behalf of the
prosecution, he said
Ethe case now to be submitted to you
has for many days and weeks received
your ,nntiring and discriminating atten-
ton, and now comes before you in its
lastand momentous stage. Many circun-
stances conspire to distinguish it as one
Of the greatest Importance and interest.
aIt occurs at the close of the greatest
martial epoch of our national history, at
themoment when the genius of our mild
andsmercifnl Government is asserting the
elai4sgeeY eYeiyilj ljustice, and inviting mode
ratiidfn lid aiS peace to our country. :
It aiscloses one of those hideous
crimes that spring out of the passions of
war, and that belong to an epoch when
violence and reason are struggling to-
get6er for 6nal mastery.
sTIe triumph Of justice and right inso
grave a contest is of vital Importance to
the section of country where the case
arose to- tie entire State-and to the
nation at large
He painted, insvivid colors, the disturb
cd ard Sla@iess condition Of Anderson
District & a reign of violence holds tho
minds and conscienccs Of its victims in
bondage, Mercy and justice demand
protectiop for the innocent.
e*sfhc functions Of the=Judge Advocate
doSnot open:to JIiim the field of rhetorical
elimination and sinrcctive. Itiis no part
of his duty Ito endeavor to fastcn the con-
victions Of his mind upon the Judgment
of fhs Court BY tho arts common to Ad-
vocates in the Civil Courts. he should
.con!ine himself to elucidating the char
PES before the Court, to arraying the evi-
dencesin support of these charges, or to
yindicating and illustrating the principles
tkatoaght to govern in determining the
weightsof evidence, and in committing
the entire testimony SO as to form an
HARMONIOUS whole / shall endeayor to
be guided and limited by these Just con,
sideraticnss'
he then recapitulated the charges
against the accused, with the speciica-
tions, and entered into definition Of the
same.
He gave q brief narrative Of the cir
cnmatanees relating to the murder; and
the facts and events transpiripg in the
nextsfew days thereafter.
aStowersy on Monday morning, having
sent; Tor another steersman, goes to the
Ferry to start his boat for Augusta He
finds that his boat has been carried over
to the; Carolina side, and being unable to
got it, he abandons his trip for that day.
have ne account Of his having re-
ceixed any information up to the time as
tosthe character of events that transpired
the night before at the ferry; neverthe-
less she takes the first opportunity to in
form Squire and Edmund, ,thatthey would
probably all be arrested for the murder
of the guard, and tells them, should the
Yankees inquire about where he was on
Sunday night, they must say.that Squire,
OF: his return that night, heard the shots
fred at the ferry, and went to Mr.. Stow
erssto get some brandy for Caesar, who
was SICK, and there found Edmund, ,sswho
was also getting brandy. Squire was
commissioned to get Cesar to corrobo-
rate this story, which was an entire fab
rication,o
aons ednesday Mr.. Showers leaves
with his boat for Augusta. and having set
at;defancea a guard sent to arrest him at
Stinson's Ferry, goes on to Augusta
where he is arrested. The attack OF the
guard, tho murder of the soldiers, and the
robbery Of their horses, &C., are fully
proved. The horses and equipments are
turned over to q party calling themselves
Tennessceans, who leisurely start fol
Georgia, having only gone some ten miles
before midday on Monday, and one o
whom ostentatiously represents himsel
as the murderer of these men the nigh
before"
The Judge Advocate next proceeded t.