Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1866-02-14

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his management.
"Hss your name been entered on the
rolls of the S,ate?" demanded the
Judge.
at is immaterial," answered the stran.
ger, his thin bloodless lips curling u2 with
a sneer "uere is my license from the
highest tribunal in America" and he
handed the Judge a parchment. The
trial went on.
He suffered the witness TO tell their
own story, and he allowed the defence to
lead off. Ansley spoke first, followed by
Pike and Prentiss The latter brough,
the house down with cheers, in which the
jury joined.
1t was now the strangers turn, he
arises-before the. bar, not behind it
and so near the wondering jury that he
might touch the foreman with his long
bony finger. He proceeded to tear to
pieces the arguments, of Ashley, which
melted away at his touch like frost before
a sunbeam. Every one looked surprised
Anon he came to the dazzling wit of the
poet lawyer, Pike. Then the curl Of his
lip grew sharper, his smooth face began
to kindle, aud his eyes to epen-dim and
dreary no longer, but vivid as tightening
red as fire gobes-glariug as twin ne
teors. The whole soul was in his eye
the full heart streaming from Lis face
Then, without bestowing any allusion to
Prentiss, he turned short around on the
pcrjured witness of Hopkins-tore their
testimony into shreds, and hurled into
their faces such terrible invectves that al
trembled like aspen leaves, and two of
them fled from the court house. The ex-
citement of the crowd was becoming tre-
Mendous. Their united souls seemed to
hang on the burning tongue of the stran-
ger; he inspired them with the power Of
his malignant passions and he seemed to
have stolen natures long hidden secret
OF attraction. But his greatest triumph,
was yet to come.
His eyes began to glance at the assissin,
Hopkins, and his lean, taper finger assum-
ed the same direction He hemmed the
wretch with a wall of strong evil
dence and impregnabe argument, cutting
off all hopes of escape. He dug beneath
the murderer's feet bitches of dilemma.
and held the slanderer up to the scorn and
the contempt of the populace. Having
thus Girt about him with wall of fire,
he stripped himself to the work of mas
sacTe.
Oh. then it was vision both glo.icas
and dreadful 10 behold the orator. His
| actions secame as impetious as the motion
Of an oak in hurricane His voice became
a trumpet, filled with wild whirlpools,
deafening the ear with crashes of power,
aud yet intermingled all the while with
an rndertone Of the sweetest cadence -
His forehead glowed like heated furn-
ace; bis countenance appeared haggard,
Ike that of maniac, and ever and anon
he threw his long, bouy hands on high
as though grasping after thunderbolts.
He drew picture of murder in such
colors that, in comparison, hel! itself
might be considered beautiful he paint
ed the s!anderer so black that the sun
seemed dark at MONDAY when shining
upon an accursed monster, and :hen
fixing both portraits on the SHINING Hop
kins. fastened them there forever. The
agitation Of the audience nearly amount
ed to madness.
All at once the speaker descended from
the perilous height. His voice walled
out for the dead and liviug-the beauti-
full Mary, more beautiful every moment
as tears rose faster-till stout men wept
and sobbed like children.
He closed with a strange exhortation to
the jury, and through them tc the by
ISLANDERS he then advised the panel, after
they should bring in the verdict for the
plaintiff, not to offer violence to the de-
fendent, however richly he might deserve
it. In other words, "not to lynch the
william, but leave his punishment with
Sod" This was the most artful trick Of
all, and the best calculated to insure ven
geance.
the jury returned verdict of fifty
thousand dollars, aud the night afterwards
Hopkins was taken OF: of his bed and
beaten almost to death.
AS the court adjourned, the stranger
said:
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