The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-04-27

lcd by man who had been in the coun-
ellis Of the nation before the war. He
was great i'll the councils of the coniedc
racy. 1io was afterwards Governor Of
the State, and he died in one OF the most
brilliant capitals OF Europe, in ST. Peters
burg, AZ foreign minister of the United
States James l.. Orr. a man perhaps
with the ieyellcst head in South Carolina.
with the brain auI muscle L9th OF fr1Iue and
mind
That sh9ule:ct do-n the nr,i Of human kind
He made his fight and made ii like q
rlaD against the corruption i'll the Re-
publican party. The other faction was
prodigy. lie reminds US OF the dissolute
Emperors Of the decline and fall OF the
Roman Empire. a pTo-consul Of the
Ncrres type. But when the clash came
between them on which side did the dis
,rict attorney array himself? Side by
side with Moses. II was on his arm that
Moses leaned, and il was on his tongue
that Moses relied as he made that cam
paign through the State which resulted
III temporary success, but which ulti
mately terminated in the downfall Of the
Republican party.
Judge Bond (interrupting j l don't
see, Mr.. Ioumans, what that has to do
Will tlc case. -'lE Merton Is not on trlal
here.
Mr.. Melton: Let him go on, may it
please your Honor Let him go to The
end OF his tether. lie has already gone
too far ] would prefer that lie conclude
and that | be allowed to answer him.
NJ. foumans, continuing: When
Melton and Moses spoke in Charleston
with The joys and grieved with the sor-
rows OF Charleston for centuries, we're so
shocked by their harangues that they
refused to chime the quarters or sound
tho hour. The local poet of the dry says !:
"Si. Michael, chimes were mute when Nerc,
spoke,
And Nose, paralyzci their brazen stroke:
such sh2ieIess uttcrances meath the spire', iafk
shade,
Made the tower shudder an'; the clock afraid
When the District Attorney essays 10
speak for the people of South Carolina
lie puts in claim which we and all other
people in South Carolina deny SAYS a
distinguished son of South Carolina, now
minister TO the South American Repub-
lie, .'To love South Carolina was the
creed of South Carolinians-a creed
which statesman might call narrow and
and philosopher might call weak, but
broad enough it was 10 cover them in life,
and strong enough to support them in
death" And remembering that in her
soil, which TO us is sacred-that in her
bosom arc reposing the ashes Of the ven
Grated men and pure women whose lips
and lives have taught us to love South
CarOlina-that bosom into which we will
when liles fitful fever is over, all Green
gladly as ever after Il long days sport
when infants we rested our " carried heads
upon our mothers knees or sank to sleep
in her arms. l, the humblest OF her citi
zens, commissioned to stand here in their
defence to-day against this unjust perse-
cution, speak the prayer of her sons and
daughters when l say: Withered be the
arm that strikes her. Cursed be the
tongue that maligns her. Hated be the
T3o that inyades her. but withered !!
thrice withered-cursed! thrice cursed
thrice hated be the son of hers, native
and TO the manner born, who would
raise his slapderous tongue to defame her
or his matricidal arm to strike her. We
read in profane history that Coriolanus,
who yielded to the tears of his mother,
halted his victorious legions beyond the
mother and then admired her beauty
after she wa corpse, and fiddled n
gnOdly tune while Rome was burning.
We read that tho old Patriarch who float
ed in tho ark on the topmost wave that
encircled the globe, after the waters sub.
sided, became intoxicated and lay uncov-
cred within his tent, and that his sons
went backward and covered the naked
ness of their father; hut nowhere, either
III sacred or prOfane history, from the
Pentateuch of Moses, which tells of the
origin of man, the fall, the deluge and
the primal settlement Of nations, to the
Book of Morman-from Sanconiathan
and the records of the Chinese TO Justin
AlcCarthy's history Of our own times, do
we read the record of 4 man in the full
possession of his faculties who, tearing
his hair, rending his robe, and calling
Heaven to witness the purity of his az.
tions, uncovers the nakedness of his
mother, and exposes her to the public
gaze-a nymph Of the pare-"a common
street-walker''-"a debauched and be-
draggled creature AS great as are the
talents of the District Attorney, he has.
fear, as has been charged against the
great man he has quoted, given up to
party what was meant for mankind.
But coming back to the case before
you, gentlemen of the jury. You are to
look on this case as men; sec how it
stands SEQ, AZ you cannot fail to see,
that these men acted exactly in accord
ance " ith the law; that though there was
fraud that IL was impossible for them to
detect it; that the Government has not
only not proved their guilt beyond n rea-
sonable doubt, but has utterly failed To
connect them with any offence. What is
their fate to-day may bc yours to- morrow
Lord Erskine said the energies Of the
English Constitution were exhausted
when twelve men were put in n jury box
Look only to your Oaths and your honor
and. gentlemen, when you come calmly
to consider and reflect upon the testimony
l am sure you can lay your hands on
your hearts and look with approval to
your God us ynm proclaim u verdict Of
not guilty as 10 NIL Of these defendants.
At the conclusion of Attorney -General
Youman's argument tho court took u
brief recess. Al the reconvening of the
cnurt. District Attorney Melton, handi-
capped rs he was with Al weak cause and
with the sense of having placed himself
in false position, madea n most ingenious
and dramatic argument. II was q mas.
terpiece of forensic elOOueuca