Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-09-05

CnrlStlan ClVlllZatlOn woman Is most
loved and reverenced. There wO-
manhood is most refined and exalted,
and there men fight for the purity of
their homes. Here in East Tennessee
you fought on both sides in the war
for the Union, and you fought from
high convictions of duty. When a
man is willing to die for his opinions
they are honest opinions.
81 appeal to you to permit my
client to make one honest fight for
the purity of home. In his early
youth he fought under the beautiful,
starry flag, emblem of united power
and of glory, and with eagre enthusi-
asm offered his young life in the
cause of his country as he saw the
right. On the 23d day of September,
1884, this sad and lonely man, be-
reaved and stricken beyond cure in
this world, made one battle down in
yOnder mountain gorge, twelvemiles
away, not only to punish the destroy
er of his own home, but in vindica.
ton of the principle which makes the
home secure from the intrusion Of the
lustful outlaw. He fought for" Home,
home! Sweet, sweet hOmew and
when thereport ofhis dOuble-barreled
gun echoed on that autumn morning
throughoutthese mountains Of Greene
county and throughout the State of
Tennessee, and all over the Union,
they were welcomed by all except
lechers, libertines and adulterers as a
fit accompaniment to the spirit, letter
and melody of the immortal song.
SIN barbaric countries, home, de-
pending on wOman's virtue and do
nestle purity, is without conception
or appreciation, and is without value.
In the interior of the Dark Continent
the African Prince as the first and
most pleasant duty of hospitality in
vites the honored guest to make a Sc
lection from among his wives, and to
share with her the pleasures of his so
journ. In the deep, dark receSses OF
Africa and other benighted lands the
principles which inspire this prosecu-
ton would be better authority than
here"
The perofation of the Senator was
matchless in these words.
"Gentlemen, when yourenderyour
verdict, as you soon will, it will ring
joyously through the world. L have
not a doubt what it will be. For the
last two hundred years, since the dis.
sOlute and debauched reign of Charles
ii. of England, no man freebOrn and
invested with the rights of citizen.
ship has ever been punished in ar
English-speaking nation for Staying
in good faith the seducer of his wife
daughter or sister. After the Resto
ration in 1860 and during the reign
which followed, it is matter Of history
that female virtue was mockery anC
a jest. The wife, the sister, the
daughter were open to the approach
and solicitation of the adulterer ant
seducer. A carnival Of immortality
a banquet of lust succeeded, during
which the injured husband was thu
sport of sarcasm, the jest of the clown
while the successful seducer and the
woman of licentiOus pleasure cOnsti
tuted the herO:and the heroine of pub
lie and private life, of the parlor, thu
ballroom and the stage. The Count
followed their King and the fashion
he made for the times. If a manly
husband slew a presumptuous ant
privileged scOundrel for dishonOrinI
the bed made sacred by the marriag
VOWS, he was punished.
"But since that degraded, bawd.
reign, both in England and America
the husband who fights an homes
fight for the purity of home has bee
sheltered in safety, not only the com
mon law of England as nodded b,
custom, but by the common law G
mankind as written in the verdicts G
juries and derived from the inspirG
ton Of the Most High.
"Home is of divine sanction an
origin, and he who kills the destrOye
of a home has an especial protection
both human and divine. There
not a verdict of an American jury i
our one hundred years as an organ
zed people wherein or whereby
, husband who, in good faith, slew tn
, man who has defiled his wife hi
been punished. The father who slay
| the seducer Of his daughter has til
= same protection. The brother VIII
= Stays the seducer of his sister ca