Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-23
Price Four Cents.

vored and hard featured. The entire section of country in and about Rockland was in time past far more populous than it is now, and 1t has long been considered ''good place to emigrate from" on account of the unfer- tile soil and broken surface.
 It does not now contain perhaps more than half the inhabitants which lived among the hills fifty or sixty years ago. The descend ants of the fathers are scattered far and wide, and many among them are now prominent as professional or business men.
 Among the earliest emigrants from this vicinity were the ancestors of Alexander H. Stephens and Jefferson Davis, who lived, curiously enough, within few miles of each other-one in Rockland and the other just over the town line in Killingworth. During l the late war detailed account was published to this effect, giving names and dates, and have special reason to believe it to be cor rect. Many persons bearing these names and remotely connected, still remain. Wheth- CT ''o1d Ben" is one of them, deponent saith not. The hardy stock has sent forth vigor- ous offshoots.
 But as a matter of simple justice it should be said that there are few if any hamlets like Rockland, whose people have done and still do as much, in proportion to their ability, to maintain morality and religion among them They have, as We know, church, respectable in appearance and size, a comfortable parson- age and regular ministerial services It may be said that ''they have done what they could, and do not hesitate to affirm that the people of Rockland and vicinity are as free from vioe and vicious indulgence ss the most 1 favored parts of our State. They are gener- ally industrious, hard-working, shrewd and God-fearing
 The sum paid in money by them for minis terial services is small indeed, but it must be remembered that the cost of living there is also smaller than elsewhere, and that the toIn 17aN nlnr Sr @1vo ways. The minister should and does share with his people, who extort from the reluct- ant soil or wrest from the forest the means of subsistence.
 Tramps and jail birds have seldom found recruit among them. and to the officers of the law, till recently, Rockland has been an al- most unknown region. It must be said that the latest fashions are sadly unapprecated, but the natives are good judges of character for practical purposes, whether in broadcloth or homespun.
 1have rambled on at some length, but be- fore closing permit me to speak of some things which are on my mind in connection with the late trial regarding the treatment of witnesses by counsel, as it appeared to an improvisation al listener in the court room. It must be right to test to the utmost the knowledge of experts so as to estimate correctly the value of such testimony without slurs, mean insin- nations and abuse-for these gentlemen are euucateo ulsclpllneu ana acute, and should know certainly whereof they affirm. But how is it with witnesses from the more com mon walks of life, especially sensitive women who against their inclinations are required to give evidence? Should they not be exempt from the bulldozing, terrifying style of cross- examination to which some of them were subject during the late trial. Mrs. Hayden, think it is admitted, was treated with con- sideration and kindness as a rule. Why should there have been any exceptions What decent excuse can be given for the con- duct of counsel, in summing in the final plea, for singling out one or two women who were assailed with low blackguardism and vulgar ridicule on account of their personal appear ance. If man strikes a woman and inficts pain or injury, even under provocation, we say he is inhuman; if without provocation, we call him brute by common consent. How shall we characterize the act of counsel who wantonly caricatures woman suffering from ill health reluctant witness, without reproach and irreproachable in character Are the feelings of such woman of no &C., count, and are such acts of counsel those of gentlemen These shocking meannesses, with other abuses and relics of ruder times, let us hope will be sloughed off from legal procedure as we become more humane and Christian in the ''good time coming"
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