The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1871-03-25
NUMBER 8 8.

latitude In their statements of conyersa-
ticns-and In aii these appears plainly
that no such Intention existed il Gard
ner's miad.
But the last meeting itself, gentlsmeh
Of the jury-thc last and fatal meeting
lffe kne= not only the last moments Of
this encounter, but the first also. You
have q detailed account of the meeting
from the very beginning-when Mr..
Gardner walked into Dean Swamp Mill,
to the end, where he ran oati1 tho
agonies of death. And what was his
CONDENSATION with Porter9 Did he
como like 4,man who had come to take
his lifc7 Did lie Use one harsh expires.
sion to him at first? They sat doan to.
gether after exchanging greetings in the
kindest manner They spoke about some
bargain for p~rorerty-after that Mr..
Gardner said "There is another matter
[ should like to talk to you about" and
the prisoner. it seems, knew the topic ts
be broached. There were particular
reasons why it should be unpleasant to
him. According TO his W testimony,
shen Mr.: Gardner proposed that they
SHOULD move further from those present,
Mr.. Gardner ttopped and bid him to
Some on, Tot he hesitated. Gentlemen,
is there anything in all this to indicate
any other purpose Ia Gairdner'S mind
than mild remonstrance 2 a remon-
sttdnce, it may be, touched with a little
sharpness He was the moral superior
of Porter; and of greater steadiness Of
habit. All this gave him a greater
steadiness of habit. All this gave him
a right TO rcnianstrate with The young
man upon the wrong which he had been
doing. And it does not appear that he
did aught else, but demonstrate. Ho
said 50 on his dyifg bed said lie had
r2proved hia,, and reproved him sharply.
This is all that Porter Himself says, that
he rcbuked him sharply, aud eGercupon
the catastrophe. ] say, gentlemen. that
for them to insist upon tllis, is an insult
to your understandings
With tKiis brief summary, j leave the
| s.sa5
me. ! would merely beg you in closing,
to arm yourselves against . very con-
mendable wsaeAess il man. The near.
est object eScites our COMMUNICATION to
the exclusion of that which is far away.
This scene occupies your attention you
forget that at Dean Swamp Mill, You
see Mr.. Porter before you, young strong.
active, aud y2u see his anxious family
mourning around him. You forget poor
Gasafet rushing from lEe mill, his lie
blood streaming from six deadly wounds,
so that it poured a crimson It'd, alsng
tfe erodnd as lie ran, crying to heaven
thnt.ke lad been murdered. You FIR.
get him q few moments later tosteIing
on the afps of his friends back To his
home and his family. | saJ, gentlemen
Of the jury, it is a commendable weak.
ness, but after all it is a weakness. The
scene upon which you should fix your
attention, is not this where Justice is 10
be calmly administered, but that, the
place of this deadly encounter, and the
ruined homo of Isaac Gardner. See
him breathing his last. See, from the
spot where he was struck to the bosom,
of his wife, thcred tide which marks his
progress See his blood stained cloth
ing, I direct your view to these objects
not painted by MY cun Imagination.
They have all been described to YOU
with painful miuutcneEss in the testimo-
n .Tiicy were facts, terrible realities
then, Those stains have lene l
washed from the highway by the santlc
hands of heaven; and fond hands, have
doubtless romov; ID all those terrible ira
ces from the garments of the dead. But.
gentleman OF tho Jury, at the time of
this occurrences they were facts, terrible
facts. You feel for the unhappy family
before yor; you have no pity lor the
angrish Ct thai wfeselied woman, whd
. lev months since was doom d to sea
kef Husband brought back to her,
sssieken, Bleeding, dying.
List Of all, you are not Ecre to ayengs
the death of Isaac Gardner; to sod
alone belongs that p~rerogatiye. You
arc hero to instruct this community by
example that they must regard human