Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-01-28

his mother and declared that he
had always been clover of the
Lord, when he broke down COM
pletely, and applying his handker-
chief to his eyes, wiped away the tears
which, naturally or forced for the pur-
pose OF exciting sympathy, coursed
down his cheeks. He promptly re-
covered himself, and in his usual tone
of voice proceeded with his address.
Coming down to his quotation from
"John Browns Body" he threw back
his head and sang verse from that old
song, much to the amusement of the
spectators.
He read from his speech:
"Put my body in the ground if you
will; that is all you can do. But there
after comes n day of reckoning. The
mills of the Gods grind slow, but they
grind sure, and they will grind to atoms
every man that Injuries me-
And supplemented it with the remark:
''As sure as hair of my head is injured
this nation will go down in the dust,
and don't You forget it,"
After sketching the circumstances
leading up to the crime and painting
with fervid language the damning
wickedness of its execution, judge
Porter in his address to The jury turned
his attention to the prisoner and pro-
ceeded to depict his character.
ga beggar, a hyprocrite, robber
and swindler, lawyer who never won
q cause, no court, no jury failed to see
in him the dishonest rogue, and such
men cannot win causes. He has left his
trail of infamy in hundred directions.
The man who as q lawyer had such no.
tions of morality that, when he
had taken debts to collect
and collected them by logging the
debtor, he held them against his client !;
man who was capable of blasting the
name of woman with whom he had
slept for years and still recognized as
his wife man who when he tired of
this woman, pretending to be q
Christian and believer of the
Bible, looked in the book and read
Thou shalt not commit adultery and
then went ont and deliberately COM
mitted adultery with street walker;
a man who pushed himself into the fell
lowship of Christian associations, as a
follower of the Saviour, when fresh
from six years OF foul fornication in the
Oneida Community"
Guiteau-"That lie ought to choke
you"
AS Judge Porter proceeded with the
resistless torrent of denunciation and
invective, the prisoner occasionally
called out, THAT'S lie," "Thats alb
solutely false" or "That amt So"
Judge Porter said Mr.. Scoville had
presented theory of the defense which
was plausible and false. He had en-
barked the defense upon n craft which
the prisoner with his own hands had
scuttled. Unless the prisoner was a
liar he was guilty. OF the three argu-
ments made for the defense, that of
the prisoner himself was the most
free from objection. He accused Mr.
Scoville in particular of making
deliberate misstatements and pervert-
ing the testimony. When Mr.. Por-
ter touched upon the question of public
opinion concerning Guiteau, Mr.. SEQ
vile objected, and took an exception to
statements of the speaker denying
what Guiteau himself had asserted as
TO the tone of the press and the public.
There was lively tilt, in which Gut
teau took part, and Judge Cox said Mr..
Porter could deny what Guiteau had
said, but could not make p ositive state
ments as to what is contained in news
papers.