Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-12-07

have occurred when men have been hurreh 10
their merted doom, all pass into the common
collection and are lost These teW stahu ou' ne
qpoastrosifies TO attract attention Of the undls'
corning. ,..
The argument which has been presented TO you
and which has been endeavOred To be enforced oN
passages from Scripture-hy citations ann hy al
manner OF means, is an old one. Mr. uranam
has pursued that same line of argument untii ne
has made himself infamous all over the country
heo of ,ou. gentlemen never to add the sane
tion of YOUR names to cases of such Il character
as those.
Marriage is a great Institution. twas given
to us nj the earlies; dawn of creation. 1t opens
to man the brightest and longest vista of happl-
ness that is possible for him. marriage when
is sauctilied by mutual confidence. by mutual
/ affection marriage which is rendered tender
by love in the past and conf ience In the present.
that can understand ;hut marriage as II has been
depieted bere-marriage AS you are expected to
! understand il, that, lcann0t understand Mar
riare sanctiied by murder Marriage rendered
| holy by the thrust OF an assassin's knife Mar.
! riase sapctifed hy midnight assassination and
! baptizpd in the blood of a man AS innocent as
! a chill this, | cannot understand. Ii Is not
| the Gospel Of God but the Gospel of Satan; and
/ the words "f The sacred writings, the words OF
! Almighty God given to mau-are dragged for
! ward and perverted to favor the infamous crime
! uf murder No such meaning belongs To the
words which have been read to you No such
meaning by any right can be attached to them.
! Do YOU suppose tor one moment that the Children
OF lseral-Gul's chosen people-were the ihwless
men that it is intended you should infer from
these quotations of Scriptures? Do you suppose
that when an adulterer was to he condemned and
punished hy death. that any man should take
he execution of him into his own hands! No:
They were to be doomed to death after they had
been brought before the proper tribunal, not
sent without warning out OF the world, upon a
mere suspicion of an enraged and infuriated
husband.
For the wicked and deliberate seducer |
have no words of excuse, nor of palllatlon:
where man enters his friends house by his
own invitation, and deliberately and calmly
sacrifices to his own lusts the happiness of his
frienC--the home of his family-the love of
his children, ! leave him to such vengeance
q the courts allow or as man will intilct. But
this is no such case. Let me describe to you
the facts. The prisoner at the bar has told
YOU his history. lie has told it with calm
ness and an attention to the details that must
have satisfied you of his mental condition, and
upon that shall comment as the case lufther
proceeds.
He married wife at the age OF % years.
She lived while and died he married an
| other-she was his wife for ten years. What
occurred during that period we have no means
of knowing, except i'll one particular instance
where lie was found quarreling with her.
! After she died in only eleven short months
this affectionate % man married another
wife-Mrs. lioswell-whom you have seen
Afore yon in the course OF this trial. The
testimony of the case, which is mostly his own
testimony. and judge ye whether he would de-
pict it in ANYTHING but the most pleasing col
ors-by the testimony in the case, you cannot
help being convinced that her life was one
hmm Series pF afpsp and SnfiprInp While
they were in New York and New Jersey, he
repeatedly turned her out of q, 'ors without the
pietext Of Jealousy or OF anything but his own
malignant ht art. " hen he came TO this State,
IN Ilermon, he manifested the same DISPOSE
ton towards her in all respects. His counsel
and he in his testimony, have endeavored to
assign jealousy as the cause oft. Gentlemen,
you can judge after have re- stated it TO you
what amount of jealousy there was in it.
He found her making some shirts for an
other oman, and quarreled with her about it.
Then he was out in the field and he came in
to find shirt stud; they banded words TO
and fro about those shirts and lie tore all her
raiment to cces and committed all those
other acts Of violence which are attested to
before you.
What passion of jealousy was there about
that? 1t had its origin, perhaps in his sus-
nalignity of bis heart.
Now. when he moved to Hallowell what do
you find there? and let me say TO you, gentle
men that | thought afterwards it would have
been wiser for them to let me prove 1t, 1e-
cause nes or could have been able to set out
his character AS he has set il out in that par
ticular instance--I had supposed until the
testimony was presented here that he was
acting under the impulse OF II jealousy found
cd upon information-that on account OF that
| j, alousy he had torn her clothes. | never
imagincd-I never dreamed, until his own
testimony let it out, that before he turned her
out of doors he was satisfied that his suspi-
cuns were wrong. You remember he tells
you tkut when he went into the house he
found she was alscnt-that was not at sup
per. He inquired and found she had not been
! TO dinner. Pretty soon she came back. He
| passed by her sulleDly and goes out and down
The street, without word. She, in her anx-
| iety, knowing his disposition and dreading his
anger, follows after. He turns round and
sees her following. Does he turn back like a
loving husband! No, he keeps on his way.
| When he arrives at the house, there ensues
| sus piciOus circumstances, you recollect. His
wife comes about him, knowing his DISPOSE
ton, knowing that she has done nothing
wrong, and yet not daring to confess even the
!
comes up to him. puts her arms around his
neck and offers to kiss him or does kiss him.
/ But something came over him which prevented
/ him from, returning that loving cnress.
/ Now, is this a happy home where then
was mutual trust-mutual love, and that
beautiful confidence which belongs, and ought
to belong, to the marriage relation? He
would not take her word-he did not believe
in her. "He lored her tepderly," but he could
not trust her word for an instant. He passed
/ on his way--hired a team after she has told
| him the story, and goes up TO Augusta. He
| becomes satisfied that his suspicious are
/ groundess and that what she says is true.
| Now, what does he do? Mad and infatuated
angry because he found that she was in
nocent-he determines to punish her all the
same.
He was not at all prejudiced against his do
nestle goyernment-there was no 'sickly
sentmentality" about his way in managing
''his happy home lie turns her out OF
doors nlhe midnight; he proceeds deliberate
ly with utter wickedness in his heart, to tear
to pieces and TO burn all of her clothes
Gentlemen, say to you, that until saw