Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1867-08-03

mighiy scourge Of war NAV soon mass awsv
with malice toward none, with charity to
al an. net us continue on and strive to ba,ld up
10 cherish a lasting peace" He next read q
let,er from President Lincoln to q poor widow
VINO mad Lost i've sons in the war. As have
ALREADY SAID, gentlemen, this is the trial OF one
OF those conspirators. 1t Is the arst judicial
trial ever instituted to try one of those con-
spirators. Our hberty.foving race has always
been jealous Of military power. and insisted on
the right OF trial by jury When the President
was murdered, 1t was said that in this city
there were so many who sym pathized with the
might be one or two who would be in SYM
pathy with the assassins; but 1. gentlemen.
have always believed that Jury OF twelve
ou pro1s u mi sd me law and justice I!
jury OF twelve men will not find conspira.
tor guilty after it has been proven. then I will
bid farewell to freedom. II Justice can't come
through the civil courts, then all good citizens
Will say let the sword write the record, and let
the military commander execute the law. The
whole world Is listening to this trial, and our
enemies would be delighted boy ond expression
when they found that jury IN the city of
Washington refused to find man guilty when
the law and the evidence says that he IL guilty.
There are many men who feel hostile IN this
country. We have been through civil war
which tends to infiame the passions. Some men
are nxious to remove this Capitol. They say it
is full OF people who hate the Government
Others want 1t retained here, and when Con-
Rress meets in November some one would say
in Congress, you see 1t Is as l told you; you
can't get justice done in the city OF Washing.
ton. A jury quits one OF the assassins of the
President. We will take mp the Capitol and
remove 1t where public oficer viii be safe
not guilty. II he is not guilty, he has been very
badly treated. A great wrong has been done
MIN. /! propose to show that he is guilty, and
the guilt Of this man l shall read Won the
evidence, and upon that evidence shall ask
yeur verdict We have lately acquired posses.
SONS rom Russia Suppose you and 1 go out
there to make explorations, and we 60 through
the forest and find a baby wrapped in a
blanket. What would be the inference II
would be that the baby had a father and q
being. Rev. Samuel Stephen f. Cameron
might swear he had seen then grow there like
toad stools, and DR.. Blssell might swear he
saw spiders weave the blanket and wrap the
child, but you would not believe either
We know that men having no other motive
speak the truth. The only way we can decide
that men will tell the truth. We know a wsman
will never desert her child unless she mas
some great motive. We know a son will
net desert mother unless be has some great
motive. We know that 1t is impossible for
man to be at two places at the same time; that
does not need to be proved You know that
when man has some great motive, such as to
save MS life, he will take any means to do So
You know on most all trials an attempt is
made to prove an abb. As great writer
says, it is the defence forged in the world.
ing person at another place; but, gentlemen
they differ as to time Mr.. p. read from Wills
on Evidence, p. 81, to show cases of proving
GiiJiS, and where they had been pro we'd falsely /
Our learned friends n the other side has told
Us that they could not subscribe to the doctrine
that It was higher crime to conspire against
and take the life of the President than it was
to murder an individual. Gentlemen, it is a
much higher crime to murder the President
1t is blow at the life of the nation. 1t is
CRIME OF such Nervousness as to admit of no
accessories.
greater Confusion is spread throughout the
land. What said the civilized world upon
this subject! A few days ago wrote q note
10 the Secretary of State, asking him to send
me the letters OF coincidence received BY our
Government, and he sent me this book OF III
pages, and gentlemen l hold in my hand the
original paper, resolutions adopted by 13,COO
rebel Prisoners expressing their coincidence
and deploring the crime. The rebels con.
demned it, all right-minded men condemned
and looked upon it as higher crime than
taking the life OF an Individual.
At 12.l5 the court took recess for half an
hour.
On reassembIing at 10 minutes before one
Mr.. Pierrepoint resumed his argument, and
SAID do believe, gentlemen, you earne7tly
sno honestly want to know the evidence in
fiuenced by any other motives. You know,
gentlemen, there are q class of persons called
thoroughly disguise his hand Each man has
handwriting peculiar to himself. 1t cannot
be disguised: No man can twice write his
and 10000 times after that, and Won cannot
place those signatures one over the other and
have them exactly ft the firsr. You can't dis
guise your voice, and you can't disguise your
walk. Now you in your various callings of
business know you are expert in your goods
and your wares, or whatever You are doing
In the city OF New York, In the Assistant
TIeasurer's office. there is an expert of coin
he can pass over basket full of coin and take
out he base coin. II comes OF men devoting
themselves to one business. Now IL seems
there are experts in relation to moral ques.
lions, and to evidence. and persons we'll know
when man is uttering the truth and when he
Is nttering falsehood. l now come to the
positive evidence. 1 had occasion to remark
10 the Court that 1t was proper 10 look at the
position of the parties charged. Men don't
commit a crime without an object, and we are
TO lock and see the motive. In March, 1869.
Mrs. Surratt was keeping a tavern at place
called SurrattsvIlie. The husband died in 1862
and there were lett the son Isaac, the daughter
facts show, they were poor, and she moved to
this city. and opened a boarding house IN this
city, at SiI II street. Her eldest son was in the
rebel army In Texas; the other SON a full
grown man. Now let us see what were the
feelings OF this family to wards he Govern.
men, at that time, which feeling after wards
resulted in murder. Mr.. p. here referred to
the testimony Of Tippeit, where he said he
had heard Mrs. Surratt say she would
give 81 UOO to any one TO kill the President,
And And whenever there was victory had heard
army ought to be in hell. In December, 1864,
Surratt received his first introd nc ton 10 Booth
and propose to show you where he was with
HIM and how he was connected with HIM, until
the nnal consumation OF this con- pracy. Mr.. p.
here read from the testimony of Weichman as
to the Introduction between Booth, Mudd and
Surratt, ana their interview at the National
HOTEL and aid now that il the first time Sur.
raft met Booth. There was nothing about the
purchase of Mudd's farm, and there is no
truth in it. They were drawing lines for an.
other purpose When people are engaged in
doing something they do not want known,
they are very apt to let their secret out, and by
their extreme caution TO keep the con versasiou
from Weichman, this shows that there was
nothing about the purchase OF Dr. Mudd's
farm. Mr.. p. read from the testimony of MIR.
Dunn, OF the Adams Express office, to show
tempt to get leave OF absence and referred to
the card found in Booths pocket, signed by
Surratt. stating "l'tried to get leave but could
not, so took it," This Is what the counsel on
the other side calls magic chain, but there is
no magic chain about It, MIR. p next referred to
the testimony OF Mr.. Martin as to seeing Sur
raft and AtZerodI In Maryland. and asked.
What do you suppose Surratt returned TO
Washington tor in the night? 1t was not to
return TO Adams Express, for he never had
leave from there. l next come to the register
Of the Maltby House. IN Baltimore. On the
2lst day OF that same month, January, you
will see here entered Louis j. Wefchman, J.
Harrison Surratt, room 127. Now, what does
all this mean? II Is one OF those little links In
a cham which bind truth to truth. He next
read from the testimony OF Weichman to show
that Surratt, on the morning OF the 22d, took q
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