The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-09-07
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'cution to present S. w. Dorsey's
statement made to Postmaster Gen.
eral James was evidence of Dor
sey's honesty.
The Court said he saw nothing in
the position, and it was a question
whether he would allow the argu.
ment to be based on mere vacuism
wind, nothing. He examined the
imprObability of Walsh's testimony
though he thought it had been
already ground to powder. II
amounted to this, a rich man
borrowed without necessity and
poor broker loaned Ewith.
out securely. No man would ever
belieYe his story. Assuming that
Walsh's S Ory was true it affected
none Of the defendants except
Brady, it only went to show that
be was guilty of taking brides, not
guilty of conspiracy. Nobody had
shown that the service was extraya-
CANT; it had been urged by members
of Congress that evidence of guilt
must include every reasonable
hypothesis, except that OF guilt of
the defendant; every tact proved
1t must be consis ent with guilt, but
also inconsistent with innocence,
In concluding his address, Colonel
Ingersoli said an effort had Eeen
made to terrCrize the jury. He said
to the jury, you have nothing to do
with the supposed desire of any man
or supposed desire of the depart
ment, Cunning and addressing his
remarks to the attorney-genera), or
the supposed desire Of any govern
ment, or the supposed desire of any
president, or the supposed desire of
the public. You have nothing to
do with these things; you have to dc
only with the evidence. Here al
power is pOwerlesS except your
own. When asked to. please the
public you shonld think of the lives
you are asked to wreck; of the
homes your verdict would darken
of the hearts it would desolate; OF
the cheeks it would wet with tears
of the characters it would destroy
of the wife it would make worse
than widow, and of the children
it would make worse than orphan.
When asked to please the public,
think Of these consequences; when
asked to act from fear, haired, NAL
ice or coWardice, think of these CON
sequences. Whoever does right
clothes himself III suit OF
armOr which the arrows of preju-
dice could not penetrate; but who
ever does wrong is responsible for
all the consequences, to the least
sigh, to the least tear. You are too
by Merrick that you should have nc
sympathy; that you should be like
lcicles; that you should be GOd-Iike
that is not my doctrine. The
higher yeU get in the scale q
being, the nObler, the teDdereT
you well become kindness is always
an evidence of greatness; malice j:
the property OF small soul, anC
whoever allows his feeling O.
brotherhood to die in his heart be
comes a wild beast. Not a king
crown, nor the deputed sword, the
marshal's truncheOn nor, the judge
grace become them with one half 81
good a grace as mercy does; and ye
tthe only mercy we ask is an homes
verdict. l appeal to you for my
clients because the evidence show!
they are honest men. / appeal fOl
my client, Stephen w. Dorsey, be
caaSe the evidence shows hC
is 8 man with an intel
ilectual horizon and in the menta
sky, man Of genius, generous anC
honest, yet this prosecution, thi!
government, these attorneys repre-
senting the majesty of the republic
representing the only real republic
that ever existed. have asked yOT
not only to violate a law of the land
but a law Of nature. They have
naligned nature, they have laughed
at mercy, they have trampled on the
hottest Of humanities, and ever
made light because a wife, in this
trial, has sat by her husbands side
There is a painting in the Louvre.
painting of desc alton, of despair
and of love. 1t represents the
Knight of the Crucifxion. The
world is wrapped in shadow, the
stars are dead; and yet in the dark
ness is seen kneeling form. 1t is
Mary Magdalen, with loving
| lips and hands pressed against
the bleeding feet of Christ
The skies were never dark
enough nor starless enough, thu
storm was never fierce enough, the
quick bolts of heaven were never
lurid, and the arrows Of Islander
never few thick enough to drive the
noble woman from her husband:
side. (Applause.) And so it is of the
human speech-the hottest word j:
"Woman.
While Mr.. Ingersoll was deliY
ering this speech several ladie:
burst into tears and Mrs. Dorsey
kept her handkerchief to her eyes
! for some minutes. Now, gentle
men, l have examined this testi
mony [ have examined every charge
in the Indictment and every chargt
made outside of the Indictment;
have shown you that the indictment
is one thing and the evidence
another: I have shown you that moi
single charge is substantiatec
against S. w. Dorsey; I have demon
strated that not one single charge
has been established against j. w
DorSey-not one; l have shown you
+hara iS no foundation for q verdict