Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-09

Inc jury took their seats. Messrs Bliss
and Key came into court at this moment,
and were informed OF the condition of affairs.
Mr.. Bliss said he did not see what was ex-
pected of the government counsel.
The Court then directed the Jury to retire
for further elaboration, saying perhaps by
Tomorrow they would find another verdict
They were cautioned 10 beware of jury Fl xers
The marshal directed to find suitable
accommodations for the jury during the
night, and recess was taken until tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock.
INGERSOLL AND BREWSTER.
A CONTRAST OF THEIR vIEws-THE FIRST AS
COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENSE AND THE LAT
TER FOR THE PROSECUTION.
The correspondent of the Cincinnati CONT
raercial telegraphs that paper on Wednesday
that 1t will be a long time before the day
when Bob Ingersoll made almost everybody
in crowded courtroom cry, and Attorney
General Brewster appeared in person in a
Criminal Court to aid in the conviction of
public plunderers, is forgotten in Washing
ton. The courtroom was crowded before the
hour of opening arrived. Every seat in the
prisoners dock was occupied, most OF them
by ladiea anxious to hesr the celebrities who
were 10 hold the floor through the day. More
ladies and more lawyers were present to-day
than yesterday, and the crowd outside the
bar were denser and dirtier. The great avn
ipgs on The south side of the building broke
the force of the suns rays, and a cool
current of fresh air passed over the throng
every minute. But il was not long before the
atmosphere of the badly ventilated room
became hot and malodorous, and everybody
was glad to get out the universal fan. There
were no prominent people present outside of
those in the case except Associate j stice
Hagner, whose entrance during Brewster's
speech gave that gentleman q pause and
attracted general attention. Counsel on both
sdes, the Judge and the jury, Brady, and
some other OF the defendants, and some of
those connected with the case in other ways,
with few exceptions, in their seats at 10
o'clock, fresh and smiling. Mrs. Dorsey,
looking pretty and very sad, represented Ex-
Senator Dorsey, who, as on yesterday, enter
tanned a little crowd of second-rate lawyers
on the steps of law Office opposite the
courthouse. He was as conspicuous there in
his dark eye-goggles as he would have been
in the courtroom. But perhaps he did not
care 10 hear what Brewster said or even
IngersolPs soul-meving appeal. George
Bliss, who has been taking needed rest
at the Thousand Islands, came in in the
afternoon TO hear Brewster. Ingersoll
went home at recess, and thence saun-
tered down Pennsylvania avenue, receiving
congratulations on every hand upon his
eloqsent speech and its effect on his au-
dience. Everybody knows what brilliant
word-painter Ingersoll lie, and it will not be
difficult to imagine the effect which his fine
ly-wrought allusion, in his splendid perora-
ton, to the constancy of a loving woman as
exempified by Mrs. Dorsey, produced upon
an audience whose eyes were fixed upon him
and whose ears caught every word he said.
His subsequent reference TO the lifelong dis
grace and wretchedness which must fall
upon the defendants and their families in
case of a conviction for the Infamous crime
charged in the indictment, was very skill
fully made. Some of the defendants were
subsequently accused by the attorney general
of Stimulating emotion on this occasion.
This may have been the case, but in other
eyes there were genuine tears. Although
none of the jury cried, it was, perhaps, the
most effective effort Ingersoll ever made. He
wound up with his passionate appeal for his
clients and friends. Closing his speech an
hour before the usual recess hour, he
had produced the desired effect, and
wisely stopped. Brewster had not ex-
pected to have TO speak before re-
cess, and said so. A long recess
was had, which Brewster devoted to prepar-
ing his notes at his Office and changing his
thin striped coat for black Prince Albert
and his.pol k dotted scarf for black stock
The ruffies were not touched, and frilled out
splendidly on the black background. The
attorney general looked we'll when he took
his place on the little area just in front of
the dias on which rest the jury chairs. No
one ignorant of the fact would have supposed
that he was sorrowiDg over the loss of two
near relatives, who died ouly yesterday after |
noon. Erect, self-contained, elf-poised, adj
mirably well dressed, without peculiarly,
apart from his picturesque face, his dainty |
ruffies and the bar at end of his watch-chain,
which he allowed to hang gracefully through |
the button-hole of his lightly -buttoned Prince |
Albert, he excited nothing of the unfavor-
able comment which some of the counsel for |
the defense have hoped for. His voice is
hareh when compared with IngersolPs, |
as free and graceful as possible. |
He created most favorable impress
sion upon the jury, who watched his |
every motion with The closest attention, and |
listened to every word he said, as he strobe |
to and fro before them, his banged hair toss- |
ing wildly on his broad forehead as he |
walked. He was full of fire. He had what |
he proposed TO say at his tongues end, and |
he said every word of it with spirit and with |
the emphasis of positive belief. When, hav-
ing explained his own position in the case,
he complimented his associates poor Kerr |
blushed from his chin 10 the roots of his |
bushy, black hair at his share of the COM
plimenls. His manner, IS he proceeded TO |
the merits of the case, WAS 30 earnest and |
sincere as TO give MS WORDS great weight.
When he denounced Brady he turned and
looked at Brady, who sat some fifteen feet |
behind him, right in the eye, and spoke in
his frmest and loudest tones. He did not |
mince matters. His firm grip completely
refuted all the loose statements made by
Star-route organs about his ignorance and
indifference in the premises. 1t was
his confidence, comprehensiveness and earn
estness rather than his eloquence that held
he into Of his andiroro fhrouohot1f |
that they forgot that they were sitting on
window lodges and standing on dock rails.
The interest heightened gradually from the
irst word until it eliminated in the striking
smile Of the adulterer of st. PauPs day
bearing around the dead body of the aduI-
eress killed In the act, and chained to his
breast, and one of the Star-route thieves
carrying through life, like rotten carcass
-ound his body, the disgrace of q conviction
or the infamous crime, each asking the an
werless question, "Who shall deliver me
rom the body of this death?" Brewster is
rood tragedian, and he never acted a tragic
part better.
The effective parts of the speeches of Brew
ter and IDgersoll above alluded to we give
,elow:
INGERsoLL's CLOSING REMARKS.
In concluding his address, Colonel Iuger-
oil said an effort had been made to terrorize
he jury. He said to the jury: "You have
nothing to do with the supposed desire of any
nan, or supposed desire any department.
Turning, and addressing his remarks to the
"Or the supposed desire
II any government, or supposed desire of any
president, or supposed desire of the public.
You have nothing to do with these things.
You have only to do with the evidence
Here all power is powerless except your own.
When asked to please the public, you should
hink OF the lives you are asked to wreck, of |
he homes your verdict would darken, of
hearts It would desolate, of cheeks il would
vet with tears, of characters it would destroy,
# the wife it would worse than widow, and
II the children it would worse than orphan.
When asked to please the public, think OF
hese consequences. When asked 10 act from
ear, hatred, malice or cowardice, think of
hese consequences. Whoever does right
clothes himself in suit of armor, which the
lrrows of prejudice could not penetrate, but
whoever does wrong is responsible for all
to the last sigh, the last tear.
You are told by Merrick that you should
rave no sympathy, that you should be like
cicles, that you should be God-like. That
3 not my doctrine. The higher you ge. in
he scale of being, the grander, the nobler,
he tenderer yen viii become. Kindness is
Ilways evidence of greatness, malice is the
of small soul, and whoever al
oSs Inc ieeiInS OF DrotnefnOoo 10 ole out IN
lis heart becomse a wild beast.
mot the kings crown nor the deputed sword:
The marshal's truneheon nor the judges robe,
Become them with one-hah so good grace
As mercy does
And yet the only mercy we AJAX is the mercy
f an honest verdict. l appeal to you for
ny clients, because the evidence shows that
hey are honest men. appeal for my client
tephen w. Dorsey, because the evidence
hows he is 8 man with an intellectual hori-
ON and q mental sky-a man of genius, gen.
rous and honest. Yet this prosecution, this 4
these attorneys representing the I
,sjesty of the republic, representing. the
My real republic that ever existed, have
sked you not only TO violate the law OF the
and, but also the law of nature. They