Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1885-06-27

A BEAUTIFUL ALLEGORY,

Crittenden, of Kentucky, was at one
time engaged in defending man who
had been indicted for capital offence.
After an elaborate and powerful de-
Tense, he closed his effort with the fol-
lowing striking and beautiful allegory:
"When God in His eternal council con-
ceived the thought Of mans creation,
He called to Him the three ministers
who wait constantly upon the throne
Justice, Truth and Mercy-and thus
addressed them Shall we make
man. Then said Justice: ooh, God,
make him not, for he will trample on
the laws Truth made answer also:
'Oh, God, make him not, for he will
pollute thy sanctuaries.' But Mercy,
dropping upon her knees, looking up
through her tears, exclaimed: ''Oh,
God, make him-I will watch over
him with my care through all the dark
| paths which he may have to tread !"
Then God made man and said to him :
ooh, man, thou art the child of mercy !;
90 and deal with thy BROTHER The
jury, when he finished, were drowned
! in tears, and, against evidence and
what must have been against their
own convictions, brought in a verdict
of not guilty.
| JUDGE HOLLAND, of the first judicial
circuit, has keen appreciation o.
humor. He relates, in his quite dry
way, the following good ones:
Last winter at Cambridge two
negroes were indicted for stealing corn
out of farmers field. One Of the
prisoners was quite old and the other
young, probably some years under
twenty. The crime could not be fasten-
ed on the elder prisoner, although it
looked as if he had melted the younger
man to take the corn and had received
the benefit of it. Well, as the court
could not 60 behind the evidence, the
elder negro was discharged and the
younger convicted. Judge Goldsbor-
ough, my colleague, and had decided
to give the younger man year in the
penitentiary, as the evidence was clear
that he had stolen the corn. Judge
Goldsborough addressed the prisoner
in due form before imposing the sen
tence, when TIE boy interrupted him
with:
"Judge, / didn't git year oh dat
corn" rolling the whites of his eyes up
imploringly and solemnly.
"But the evidence shows that you
"Judge, deed, an deed, didn't git
a year oh dat corn" again asserted the
prisoner.
The muscles of Judge Goldsbor
ough's face began to relax and there
was hum of humor among the law.
yers at the bar.
The sentence of the court is" sale
Judge Go]dsborough, that you be
confined in the
"Judge, deed an deed [ didn't git /;
year oh dat corn implored the prison
er.
THAT you be sentenced 70 imprison
ment in the county Jail for-well,
really forget the term characterization.
But the humor OF the situation anC
the youth OF the boy inclined the scale:
of justice to the side of extreme mercy
at the last moment and the prisoner
escaped the penitentiary.
cat another time while the cour
was sitting at Snow Hill, in Worcester
county. Judge Goldsborough and my
SELF" said Judge Holland, were vel
cared for by the proprietor OF one OF
the hotels. The boy who ATTENDED
upon Judge Coldsbo ough was deaf
and dumb, but he could understand
signs eEcellently, and was really one
OF the best walters | ever saw. Ono
night before retiring Judge Goldsbor-
ough raised 4 window III his room tc
admit fresh air. The next morning Il
negro boy entered his room and made
Il fire. The judge mutioHed to him to
lower the window. The boy looked at
him in dumb amazement. Tie Judge
again motioned with his hands and
arms toward the window and ordered
it lowered. The negroes lower lip
dropped and his eyes began TO roll.