The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-04-27
TIE PROPHET UNVEILED.
Attorney General foununs In Hepi, TO
Meiton-A brilliant and Memorable Ar
raignment OF the Seif-ConstltutcJ Judge
Of Soutl; Caroiina's Conduct.

Of SOUTH Caroiina's Conduct.
thooi,sfrn Ncu- u"d C1r"ie(, .iJol =,
The United States C:rcui, Court y",ter-
day WAS the scene Of such an oratorl5a.
display rs is rarely beheld at any time
Attorney General ioumans. In his spcecl,
in defence Of the managers Of the Mayes-
Vile precinct, arraigned District Attor-
nev Melton for his SANDER OF the State in
his speech in the Acton case, and, during
three hours, held the audience spell
earncstness. Attorney General YOU
mans said
May 1t please your IIonors and gentle
men Of the jury. the assistant to the Dis
trict- Attorney who first addressed You
opened with two remarks In which I
think there is certain degree of miscon-
ception. honest misconception, it is true.
or at least If not Inisconception, a some.
what ideal cxaggcratiou OF what has ac-
tually occurred. He has alluded to the
manner in which certain lawyers and
newspapers have treated him and the Dis.
trict Attorney, l can assure my. friend
from Philadelphia that tho Bar OF South
Carolina always lave been a.nu are now
ready TO welcome to their ioruNi any
member Of the legal profession from
abroad. II has always been their habit,
ii il their habit now, and can assure my
II
he would be received with consideration
and courtesy, and notably at the Charles.
ton Bar, which is the metropolitan Bar Of
the State, and the members OF which have
acquired not only State but national rep
utation in tho profession.
AS to what the newsparers say, why
this country is like England. The press
is absolutely free. No man in his gen
Grafton occupied n higher position In
England than Lord Brougham. Lord
Campbell says he was the foremost man
in England, yet there was scarce week
in which Punch did not make fun OF and
caricature him. In the generation immn-
diateiy succeeding him there was no man
who attracted more Of the public ntten-
ton, no Englishman of wider fame than
Dlsraeli, who died the Earl Of Beacons-
field, yet he received the same treat inent
at the hand of Punch, he was caricatured,
ridiculed and held up 10 laughter in every
issue Of that very delightful paper. True,
upon tho occasion of the death Of these
men no nobler enlogy was pronounced
over their graves, l!c more touching poe
try was written than in the very paper
which satirized and ridiculed them
II may be- that there is somewhat of
rusticity III our. manners, but as Rufus
Choate says it Was better to live In New
York than III Boston because IL was far
ther from where the sun rose. We are a
little moro provincial perhaps than our
Northern friends, our humor may bo
coarser and our speech more direct My
friend must rot attribute it to any disre.
spect TO him. AS to the American news
paper Press. l can only quote what one
OF tho greatest statesmen OF America said
| TO person In England. allude to tho
Sage of Wheatlands, Mr.. buchanan. after-
wards President OF the United States and
| then American minister to tho Court OF
| ST. James. Said he "You must not be-
lieve that the public men of America are
| the greatest scoundreis III it. They aro
| always tno best abused men OF the times"
Another remark that my friend makes
and in which he lubOrs under equal mis-
! conception is something about South
| CarOlinas hatred OF the United States.
There my friend Is utterly and entirely
| mistaken. 1t is truc that we did fight tho
Old Flag when 1t came down upon us
with its mission of wrath. We fought it
with Rll our strength. Xe fought it
whether correctly or incorrectly-we
| thought wc were fighting for as dear a
| right as trumpet ever pealed or sword
ever proclaimed. We saw that flag under
which our fathers and our fathers fathers
had fought streaming over truck OF
| country. where it's progress could be
| traced by devastated households and
hcarths on which tho fro had gone out
forever. We saw it through South Car
olinn waving over bluzing villages and
| burning towns, and we saw rapine, lust
| anu unucT ltS htlpIc IOiuS.
but Providence took the side of the hea-
vier battnlions, and being tho weaker wo
| went to the wall. Wo did not even say
that the victorious cause pleased tho
Gods, but tho vanquished cause pleased
us; as was said OF Cato. But VIC quietly
submitted, and when Mr.. Pro o-Consul
Daniel l.. Sickles said in official orders
that the flag of the Union waved unchal-
longed over the Carolinas, We knew it
was SO and acted In accordance with that
| knowledge. True there were some
| things afterwards not particularly calcu-
| lated to rewaken in its utmost fervor the
devotion which with us before had been
\ felt for the Union. When the ablcst
! leader of the dominant party proclaimed
that they had camped outside tho Consti-
tuition under which they said the war was
| waged, we did not like 1t, but we couldn't
help ourselves.
But thought things had become quiet
thought the old ties which had existed
| between South Carolina and the other
States STATE, OF Of S. tho Union, partlcIiaTIy p those
been again united, and that we were go
being OF co more, in fact as In theory. an
integral part OF the Union, we were
| united, and we thought and hoped that
perhaps we might, along with them, in
the not distant future, carry that flag to
climes not yet shadowed by re eagles
has been dissatisfaction with the United
States Government other States are more
jnatly chargeable with 1t thah South Car
olina. My friend must disRbuse himself
OF that idea that there Is any hostility to
him or any hostile feeling to tho great
Government which herepresents. When
| the time comes I shall show you, and
| think shall show you to your satisfac-
tso", that so far MS these discussions are
| concerned, there has been. if hostility Is
not the proper word-if hatred Is not the
proper word-thero has been certainly
| more overflowing of bile and Of temper
against South Carolina than any counsC.
| has said about the United States Govern
| ment. So voc need not come to tho case
proper with any notion that this distin-
guished gentleman from Philadelphia
has been treated improperly, or that any
| body has said or intends 20 say anything
against this great, gigantic, all-powerfui
| Government.
General Youmans then took up the in
! formation and, divestinS it OF its techEi-
cal phraseology, explained the charges
preferred against the accused. He next
| explained ut length that in the trial OF
! criminal causes tho rule was that the legal
presumption was In favor of tho inno-
cence OF the accused. That the degree OF
proof in criminal cases waJ greater than
In civil cases, and that the proof required
| In criminal cases was that the evidence
Tnust be proved beyond n reasonable
doubt. That in circumstantial evidence
(the only evidence in the case before the
CourD such circumstances standing
around the facts sought to be proved
must be demonstrated with certainty,
| and that thero must be the logical neces-
[ sity that from'those proved facts the fact
sought to be proved must follow. He
also showed that in doubtful cases the
| good character of the accused was a shield
| and protection and inurasl 20 tha hnnt,ft