Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-09-07


would allow argument to be based on a mere
| vacuum, wind-nOthipg. Ingersoll examined
the improbability Of Walsh's testimony.
though he thought it had been already ground
to powder. 1t amounted to this: A rich
man borrowed without necessity, and poor
broker loaned without security. No man
would ever believe his story. Assuming
Walsh's story to be true it affected none Of
the defendants except Brady. 1t only went
TO show that ne was guilty Of taking brides,
not guilty OF conspiracy. Nobody had shown
| that the service was extrsvagant Il had
been argued by members Of Congress that the
| evidence OF guilt must exclude every reason
! able hypothesis, except that OF the guilt of
defendants. Every fact proved uiuss net
only be consistent with guilt, but also incon-
| sistent with innocence.
In concluding his address, Colonel Inger-
soil said an effort had been made TO terrorizs
the Jury. He said to the jury: You have
nothing to do with the supposed desire of apy
man, or the supposed desire of any depart
msnt turning aud addressing his remarks to
the Attorney-Generail, or the supposed de.
sire OF any Government, or the supposed de.
sire OF any President, or the supposed desire
OF the pubic. You have nothing to do with
these things. You have to do only with the
| evidence here. All power is powerless except
your own. When asked to please the public,
you should think Of the lives you are asked
to wreck; of the homes your verdict would
darken; of the hearts it would desolate: of
the checks it would wet with tears of the
characters it would destroy; of the wife it
would worse than widow, and of the children
IL would worss than orphan. When asked to
please the public, think of those conse-
quencss. When asked to act from fear.
hatred, malics or cowardice, think CT those
consequences. Whoever does right clothes
himself In suit of srmor which the arrows
mil NOT - i
ever does wrong is responsible for all the con-
sequences, to the least sigh. to the last tear.
Iou are told by Merrick that you should
nave no sympathy; that you should be like
icicles; that you should be godlike. That is
not my doctrine. The higher you get in the
scale of being the nobler, the tenderer you
will become. Kindness is always an evidence
OF greatness. Malice is the property of
small soul, and whoever allows feeling of
brotherhood to die in his heart becomes
wild beast.
Not Kings crown nor the deputed sword,
The Marsha's truncheon nor the Judges robe
Become them with one-haf 30 good grace
As mercy does.
And yet the only mercy we ask is the
mercy OF an honest verdict. appeal to you
for my clients, because the evidence shows
that they are honest men. appeal for nv
client. Stephen w. Dorsey. because the evil
dence shows that he is man with an intel
Iectusi horizon and a mental sky-a man of
genius, generous and honest Yet this pros.
ecution, this Government these attorneys
representing the majority of the republic,
representing the only republic that ever ex.
isted. have asked you not only to violate the
law OF the laad, but also the law of nature.
They have msligned nature. They have
laughed at mercy. They have trampled on
the boiiest humanities, and even made light
because wife in this trial sat by her hus.
bands side. There is painting in the
Louvre painting of desolation, of despair
and love. 1t represents the night of the
crucihxion. The world is wrapped in
shadow. the stars are dead and yet, in the
darkness, is seen a 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. the storm wss never fierce
enough nor wild enough, the quick bolts of
heaven were never lurid and the arrows of
SANDER never hsw thick enough to drive a
noble woman from her husbands side. TAD.
plause.l And SO it is IF human speech, the
hollest word Is woman" While MIR. In
gersoll was delivering this speech several
ladies burst into tears and Mrs. Dorsey kept
her handkerchief to her eyes for some min.
utes. Now, gentlemen, / have examined this
testimony. L have examined every charge in
the indictment, and every charge made ont
side OF the indictment. 1 have shown YOU
that the indictment is one thing and the evil
deuce another. l have shown you that not
single charge is substsntiated against s, w
Dorsey. have demonstrated that not one
charge has been established against J. w,
Dorsey-not one. / have shown you that
there ID no foundation for a verdict of
guilty against any one particular defend
snt in this case. l have spoken now.
gentlemen. the last words that will be spoken
| IN public TOR my clients-she last words that
will be spoken in public for any Ct these de.
tendants-the last words that will be heard
in their favor until hear from the lbs of
this foreman the two eloquent words, mot
guilty And now. thanking the Court for
many Ec:s of personal kindness, and YOU.
gentlemen of the jury, fer your almost inf.
mite patience, leave my clients with all they
have, with all they love. with all who love
them. in your hands. [Applause
AT this int recess was taken. During
the intermission the Courtroom presented an
animated scene, suggestive of the Guiteau
trial
THE ATToRNEY.GENERAL.
When the Court was called to order, the
| Attorney General began his address with a
statement as to his connection with the case.
and after giving a complete history of the
trial, concluded as + llows: Let there be no
turbid appeals to the july, no hsiulens fusi-
ladies', no breezy bosi Y, uttered for the
purpose CT sweeping tie ] Try away from the
performance OF it's duty. He he'd not been
here to hear ali the lay uttered by the de.
| tense, but he had read IT, and such Law he
never saw before. II be had to Practice it he
would quit his profession This was prose-
cusion for conspiracy. To convict q man of
| conspiracy was very fficult tpiUg A case
OF conspiracy was made up of hers little
and there little, and like SLOW it was soon
as high as mountain and slittered all palpa-
bly, as the whiteness Of snow. 1t was not
always the hsppy fortune Of the prosecution
to catch the conspiratois together as these
conspirators have been caught-iu Dorsey's
houss-innocent men, lambs. Lambs, like
| the Turks who went to Taneiers and muir
dered everybody. Who was John w. Dorsey
tinsmith, tipsmith from Vermont. What
did he know about the star route service in
the far west Who was Stephen W. Dorsey?
Originally he was house painter, and
went from painting to politics. He was called,
Senator Dorsey. and Brady. General Brady.
We have no Senators and no Generals here.
| We are all men. We have nobody here but
men after glance arouud the Courtroom
and women. All that is done to give artih.
| ciai imp1rtauce to these men. When you
come into Court of justice take away your
Generals and your epaulets. In the course
of his remarks the Attorney General referred
to Brady as 9 mail contractor, but stopping
himself. said, No, not mail contractor but
q maileypsnder" Mr.. Ingersoll had told the
| jury how crysta, fitted and how lies would
no. fit. and Ingersoll ought to know. He
had been dealing with them for those people
He meant nothing personal to Ipgersoll
How had these men come together from all
| parts of the couatiy? Was it Divine Prov.
dence: No. Their object was conceived in
| corruption and executed in the same wicked
spirit. Their object was "pluuder, plundsr,
! plumber" Referring to the 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
principles.
60 Down among the dead men,
| Down among the dead men,"
1t were bettsr that these defendants should
| hide themselves 10 the Penitentiary than to
| face the odium which must follow them
| through life. In ancient Assyria il was the
| custom, when a man and won an were de.
tected in adultery, to kill the woman and
chain her dead and fostering body to the man,
and he went about crying, "Oh wretched
man that am Who will deliver me from
the body of this death 81 Acquit these men,
and the fostering body of their atrocious
crime. committed against the whole com
muntty, would hang round their necks, and
they could cry cut, "Oh. wfetched man
that / su Who will deliver me from the
body Of this :" TIE jury must give
Stephen W. Dorsey certificate that the
/ Charges were not true, but he knew sud
| svery one knew, that the body Of thu.
ieath would hang round him while life
ss.ed The jury had been told that
!, verdict of guilty would bring desolation
aud sorrow, tears and wretchedness to an
IGNORED people. The jury had heard Inger.
pil to day. with an inpressiveness which drew
ears to the eyes Of many. depict the horrors
isnd terrors which hunted round this people,
and while this was going on, over there was
Iibald or JOKE, and Brady sat laughing right
It the door of the Penitentiary. He could
! sit and laugh at ribal1ry and i ,kes. he had