The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-02-07

tlemeh, venerable with their grov
hairs and trembling voices, and frames
bowed down by age and grief, patient.
meek, submissive and long suffering (;
daughters and sisters and gaandmoth.
ers, meeting in the house Of God.
marching in slow and solemn process
sion, like perhaps that procession re-
corded in history thousands of years
ago, of the Samnite women who slow
ly wound their way in procession from
the gates of Rome, and went to meet
the hostile array Of their own kin, in
order to stop the war between their
fathers and their husbands ladies GER
tainly, gentlemen, of the most rpspec-
table character, and persons entitled
by their position and presence to be
treated not merely with respect but
with very great consideration, with
the highest degree of charity, as par
ties, rs witnesses, i'm every character i'm
which they present themselves to Won,
to be treated tendcrly, kindly. 1t is
GNerybOdy's right To be treated fairly,
but 1t is their right to be treated with
something more than mere fairness
And some Of the gentlemen, as my
friend said who opened the case, are
prosecuted "bccause they are the hus-
bands of their wives" Laughter. 7
l suppose my friend Judge Briggs did
not mean to lay any emphasis on the
fact that they are husbands of their
wives, as if it would be more to their
credit to be the husbands Of somebody
else's wives, LrCnewed laughter; al~
though lie derived the most eloquent
part of his speech from the social GUS
toms of our friends of the Territory OF
Utah. But l allude to that circum-
stance without serious reason. This
charge is a charge Of the violation OF
the criminal law; it is charged that
the motive and intent Of these ladies
was such as described in these stat
utes, on account of which, upon con-
viction of the offence which indicates
it, and makes them only fit to be the
inmates Of the State Prison. Now,
there are four gentlemen who are thus
sought to be made liable, not for the
''''J o'i'7Nlu luOlCNN bl lllt dClS anu
conduct ofther wives, but for the OK
traordinary, special and statutory con-
sequences of the violation of a CHM
inal law. l know you all would think
1t hard and unreasonable if the law
were such that an innocent husband
should have TO go 10 the Pcnitentiary
ior the crimes Of his Wife. In my
Judgment it is, although not in so
great degree, yet by reason Of the
perfect analogy, altogether similar, a
hardship that he should be compelled
I" pay the penalty Of double damages
ior the commission by his wife Of Il
CRIME ; and call your attention to the
SITUATION OF these parties for the pur-
pose ol making an additional impress
SION ON your minds Of the necessity in
CulllDeht upon you, to require at the
lahds OF TINS plalntlit all the evidence
tliat the law considers necessary, and
thot OF the highest kind and most sat
lslacturN nature.
MOTIVE OF THE PROSECUTION,
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