The daily gazette., 1880-12-06
THE LIBEL SUIT,
CLOSING ARGUMENT FOR
THE PLAINTIFF.
MIR. LORE OCCUPIES THREE HOURS
IN sUMMONING UP HIS CLIENTS

NEW CASTLE, Dec. 4. AT the
opening of Court, this morning,
Charles B. Lore, ESD, Of counsel
for the plaintiff in the libel suit of
the d. 5. f. & NJ. Ins. Co. Us. VIM.
I. Croasdale, made the closing ad-
dress to the jury.
Mr.. Lore said -
With submission to the Court
GENTLEME EN- OF THE JURY Our
case is clearing and will say to you
at the cad we hope it will be as
clear as this bright day which gives
us all so much life and animation
and makes you and / feel very
happy. In opening the case let me
say to you that | shall indulge in no
personalities. Did you ever notice
that when man is driven to the
wall in an argument that he in
variably tries to makes his opponent
angry; he gets angry himself and
tries to make his opponent angry
hoping thereby to relieve himself
from the dilemma in which he is
placed and to blind the eyes OF
others to the real matter at issue. |
shall say nothing Of the personal
abuse which my learned friend SAW
fit in his argument yesterday to APP
ply to any Of us. | attribute it to
the fact that he had been driven to
the wall in his argument, and getting
a little veXed himself it was the out
break of the man in such circum-
stances. 1t might have been the re-
suit of one Of these natural laws.
Naturalists tell us that all Birds
have IA period Of pin-feathering, and
at that period in their existence they
are unusually aggressive and make a
good deal OF noise; they nap their
wings and try to soar they make
great efforts, and as it affords them
exercise and is a pleasant amuse-
ment no one should object. AS they
grow older they grow wiser. Age
gives wisdom and with wisdom
comes that softness Of temperament
which gradually modulateS the utter
ances aud tempers them into that
gentle and moderate long age that
always typiiies the gentleman. 1t
may have been that his plumin3 for
the flight, in this iluttering OF his
wings that it was simply the untried
power of which he was unconscious
and he scarcely knew what he did.
lie meant no harm, possibly. We
d will kindly leave him TO the retiec-
Lion of his own gentle thoughts and
pure words, content that we leave
aim in no worse company. L shall
leave personalities, but shall stand
bv all that | sad-and bear me wit
= ness. that | never said in all my
argument of VIM. II. Croasdale that
he was n liar; that word is IN the
vocabulary Of my friend. 1t is not
in the words | used, and | leave il
\ with him and his client. 1 did
saw the Ecery Erening sometimes
] tells the truth and sometimes it die
. not. II he is the Every Egeatn9
n sometimes 1t tells the truth ano
4 sometimes it does not. But they
b, saw he is not the Every Evening, he
: is nothing but the editor. Let u
see if we cannot get at the truth
j and | apprehend the truth is wha
l. we want to get at IN this case.
= saw of VIM. Il. Croasdale that II h'
. be the author Of these pieces, or
), ne published those pieces, esteemlni
Ii Lhat he had done great service-a
d NV learned friend said he had don'
u God and man service-if he has dom
+ his. then he is a sneak not to owl
: it. That is all said, and If that
q yituperation, my learned IRENE
} seemed TO think it did apply,
D lhiak il covered him myself. L thinl
- If fitted around his mental, mora
N and natural form like the shirt O
I. Vessus fitted around Hercules am
" ne could not get it oil him if he wer
10 TO cut the Every Evening in shred
b md hurl ii to the winds-still ther
el would be VIM. r. Croasdale and tn
ld shirt fits him. The only trouoi
o about my learned friends they coul
N not, in their zeal in this case, dis
M finGuish between the truth an
r, ,bnse. | will submit it to you as
l' nroposition that if that man di
~ ,yrito these and if they were state
N. monts that ought to have been mad
ed TO the public, statements IN Whlc
's,l he was doing service to God an
u man and then when he come
If. into a Court of Justice to put h
yt nlcas upon the record and he say
zee II am not guilty; | did not do 1t,
NJ I will ask YOU if it is not the act
NJ \ sneak. a man who don't meet h
own utterances Suppose, as
illustration, your brother farmer sa
of Won that he knew some dirty a
Won had done. Suppose he circ
Iates it not simply among y,o
, neiohbors but goes to the publ
H' press and puts it in the paperI7a,l =,
om then when you go to that neiShp
0D "Did YOU do it ?'' Il did not 40 1t
her And When you bring him into Gov
or, and ask him to put his plea upon |,
record of that Court, he puts
has nIea 81 did not do it''-what won
low Won call him? Wouldn't you s
he has not a spark OF eiemen
anu ainu manliness; that he is sneak 81 81
in he' not 90 any farther with MT. Croasu
'eA than feel tha the act OF whlch he
heen guilty III this community ana
,ea' aI FIRE ibis inry and this Court, wairaii
'dav hnt when the truth is required 81
sneak it here before him and ms co9n
nera and seek no shield OF protectloh ,e 9i
the nosition as a lawyer at the bar. II /
The wrono do unconsciously, but am
led TO meet it honestly and fearle'
A at before God and man, al all tlihes an1 y
-. Sn'S l,orun1 friends, MI.