Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-09
in thi. trial has sat beside her husbands

in this trial has sat beside her husbands
side.
There is q painting in the Louvre, a
painting of desolation, of despair, of love.
1t represents the Night OF the Crucifxion.'
The world Is wrapped in shadow; the 81 ars
are dead; and yet in the darkness il seen a
kneeling form. 1t is Mary Magdslen, with
loving lips and hands pressed against the
bleeding feet OF Christ. The skies were never
dark enough nor starless enough; the storm
was never fierce enough or wild enough; the
quick bolts of heaven were never lurid
enough, and the arrows OF Islander never flew
thick enough TO drive a noble woman from
her husbands side applause, and SO it is in
all of human speech, the hottest word is
woman"
While Mr.. Ingersoll was delivering this
speech, severed ladies burst into tears, and
Mrs. Dorsey kept her handkerchief to her
eyes for several minutes. "Now, gentlemen,
l have examined this testimony. / have ex-
amined every charge in the indictment, and
every charge made outside Of the indict-
men,. 1 have shown you that the indict-
ment is one thing and the evidence another.
have shown you that not a single charge is
substaniiated against S. W. Dorsey. / have
demonstrated that not one charge has been
established against ]. w. Dorsey-not one.
1 have shown you there is no foundation for
a verdict of guilty as against any one par
ticular defendant.
BREwsTERs REMARKS.
Mr.. Brewster in concluding said: The
law provided the manner in which contracts
should be awarded, and the object of the law
was to have fair play. By the method Brady
adopted, this law was trampled under foot.
Let there be no turgid appeals to jury, no
hatulent fusilades no breezy verbosities ut
tered for the purpose OF sweeping the Jury
away from the performance OF its duty. He
l. \ L. Ill l.. 4
| by defense, but he had read il, and such law
he never saw before. II he had TO practice
| it, he would quit the practice.
"This Was prosecution for conspiracy. To
| convict man OF Conspiracy was a very
difficult thing. A Case of conspiracy was
made up of here a little and there a little,
until, like snow, il was as high as mountain,
| and glinted palpably as the whiteness OF
| that snow. 1t was not always the happy
| fortune of prosecution to catch the conspira-
| tors together, as these conspirators had been
| caught in Dorsey's house, Innocent meni
| Lambs! Lambsi Like Kinks lambs, who
| went TO Tsngiers and murdered every body.
| Who was John w. Dorsey? A tinsmith? A
| tinsmith from Vermont. What did he know
| about s. ar service in the Far West? Who
| was Stephen w. Dorsey?
Originally he was a house-psinter, and
| went from painting 10 politics. He was
| called Senator Dorsey, and Brady, General
| Brady.
ave have no senators and no generals
here" continued the attorney-general. "We
are all men. We have nobody here but
men-(sfter glance round the court-room)
men and women. All that is done to give an
| artificial importance TO these men. When
you come into a court OF justice, take away
1 your generals and your epaulets."
In the course of his remarks the attorney
l general referred to Brady as a mail con-
tractor, but stopping himself, said: mo, not
| mail contractor, but a mail expander."
Mr.. Ingersoll had told the jury how crys-
| tai fitted and how lies would not fit, and
Ingersoll ought 10 know. He had been
dealing with them for those people. He
meant nothing personal to Ingersoll. How
had these men come together from all parts
of the country. Was it divine impulse?
"No, their object was conceived in corruption
| and executed in the same wicked spirit.
Their object was plumber, plumber, plumber"
Referring 10 a statement made BY Boone
| that the books OF the concern were kept on
| the graveyard principle, he said that that
was synonymous with the Star-route princi-
pie:
"Down among the dead men:
Down among the dead men,"
1t were better that the defendants should
hide themselves in the penitentiary than to
| face the odium which must follow them
through life. In ancient Assyria it was the
| custom when a man and woman were de-
| tected in adultery, to kill the woman, and to
chain her dead and fostering body to the
man, and he went about saying. "Ohi
wretched man that l am, who will deliver
me from the body OF this death?" Acquit
| these men, and the fostering body of their
alrocious crime, committed against the whole
| community, would hang around their necks,
and they would cry out, ooh! wretched man
| that am, who will deliver me from the body
| of this death?" The jury might give Stephen
w. Dorsey certificate that the charges were
not true, but he knew, and everyone knew,
that the body of that death would hang
around him while life lasted The jury had
been told that verdict of guilty would bring
desolation, and sorrow, and tears, and wretch
edness to honored people. The jury had heard
| Ingersoll to-day with an impressiveness which
| drew tears 10 the eyes of many, depict the
horrors and terrors which hung around these
people; and while this was going on, when
ever there was ribaldry or a joke Brady sat
| laughing. Right at the door of the peniten-
| tiary he could sit and laugh at ribaldry and
| joke. He had the hide of rhinoceros
While Ingersoll burst forth in his great pero-
ration Minor put his hands 10 his face, and
Vale too, and oh, how they bubbered. But
when it was all over, they got up and not a
| tear. They laughed, laughed, on the edge OF
the penite ntiary. Brady had laughed here
when under charge of having violated his
sacred duly.