The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-04-26
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
LETTER FROM YORK, PA.
Senator Voorhees, and his Great Lecture
-Coyle Hanged-A Baltimore County
Man on the Ragged Edge, &c.

YORK, Pa, April oath, 1884.
Messrs. Editors 1T had been extensively adj
verised by the Jefferson Association Of this place
that arrangements had been made with the Hon.
D. W. Voorhees,, of Indiana, to deliver his cee-
brated lecture the life of Thomas Jefferson, in
the Cour. House, last evening At the hour APP
pointed large and intelligent audience assem-
bled to greet the learned Senator. The lecture
proved to be one of the grandest intellectual treats
we have ever listened to. The commanding and
majestic appearance, impressive style, vigor of
thought and poignancy of rhetoric sound almost
equal to that of the immortal author of the Decla
ration of Independence himself
lie sketched briefly the life of Jefferson previ-
GUS to and soon after his entrance into public life.
He then reviewed his labors in the Continental
Congress for the brief space of time of his service
in that body his introduction into the Virginia
House of Delegates of the bill abolishing those
relics of feudal times the laws of primogeniture
and entail; also the authorship of the law first
extending to masters the right to manumit their
slaves; his onslaught on religious bigotry and in
tolerance and his bill separating church from state
his services as Minister to France; his predic
lions of the reign of terror that followed his draft
of the anti-savery form of government of the
northwest territory and his purchase of the Louis
lana territory from Napoleon, whereby we OBJ
tanned that vast stretch of land lying between the
Mississippi river and the Pacific ocean. He
sharply contrasted the political convictions of
Jefferson with those of Alexander Hamilton. He
read numerous extracts to show the strong ten
dency of the views of the latter towards limited
monarchical government, and sustained Jefferson
in his successful defeat of the scheme that at that
time, about the year 1900, had many followers
1 cannot do the Senator justice in further sketch
ing his lecture, but it was grand, and the two
hours occupied in its delivery was the shortest
space of time ever spent listening to lecture.
Many prominent persons from distance were
present. Among the number we noticed was
Chairman W. W. Hensel, of Lancaster, Pa.
The body of John Coyle, Jr., who was hung at
Gettysburg, on Tuesday last, for the murder of
Emily Myers, passed through here on Tuesday
evening, accompanied by his parents. The party
with the body left the train at Hellam Station,
the Wrightsylle road From thence it was taken
across the country to the Coyle residence. Whilst
waiting at the station for the conveyance to take
them across the country the father took several
drinks of whisky and had his bottle filled. A
number of persons gathered at the depot, former
friends of the deceased, who begged the old man
to open the coffin that they might get look at
the body but the old man refused to do So stating
that "not d-n one of the false witnesses who
swore against John should ever lay eyes on him
again." 1t is reported here that the authorities
of the cemetery at Marietta refused to sell the
Coyles lot in which to bury the body.
The Court of Quarter Sessions for this county is
now in session here, Judge P. L. Wickes ON the
bench. The case of the Commonwealth vs.. DIR.
Barton, of New Market, Baltimore county, was
tried yesterday on a charge of assault and battery
on oath of Abraham Austin. The case was given
to the jury last evening with instruction to bring
in sealed verdict this morning. The trial list
which is small, is composed of cases of the lower
grade of crime, and will not occupy the attention
of the court more than ten days of the two weeks
term. X.