Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-05-29
3 qualities and constitutes the germ Of patriot

qualities and constitutes the germ Of patriot
ism ITSELF
"why Is the step Of the Kentuckian free
aud confident, as that OF the MEG regor when
his foot was on the heather Of his native hills
and his eye on the peak oi Hen Lomond II
II because he feels independent and proud ;
independent In the knowledge of his rights,
aud proud In the generous consciousness of
ability and courage to defend them, not only
In his own person, but In tho persons Of those
who arc dear To him.
alt was not tho blood that would desert
u brother or n friend, which swelled the
hearts OF Your fathers IN tho 'olden time,
when. IN defense of those they loved, they
sought tho red savage through all tho last
nesses Of his native forest IL was not such
blood that was poured out, free ~ gushing
torrent, upon the dark banks ot the melan-
choiy Haisn, when all kentucky manned
her warrior siros. They were as bold and
true ~ ever fought beneath n plume. The
Roncssvalles pass, when Tell before the op'
posing lance the harnessed chivalry of Spain,
look ed not upon better or braver band
TERnIBLE ISvEcrivE.
In the outset OF this address Mr.. Prentiss
called attention To the "private part OF the
prosecution'--th employment of counsel by
Redding, the man with whom tho defend
ants had the quarrel, and who, the same
evening, rallied a party OF his friends aud
led them to the Galt house to horscwhip the
Mississippiaus Mr.. Prentiss charged that
on Redding, the prosecutor, rested the res
possibility for the killing oi Rothwell and
Meeks and pointing at, identified Redding
~ " him whose forehead ! intend, before
am done, TO brand with the mark OF Cain,
that in after life all may know and all may
shun him. The following, tho redemption,
in part, Of that promise, is specimen OF his
powers OF invoctiye; and II language was
ever wrought into Instrument Of torture TO
scathe and sfarify, the subject OF this excoria-
tion must have felt that the instrument was
embodied In Prentiss tongue:
" But there isa murderer, and, strange To
say, his name appears upon the indictment,
not a. criminal, but as prosecutor. HIS gar
ments are wet with the blood rf those upon
whose deaths YOU mold this solemn inquest
Sonder he sits, alaying for moment the
hunger Of that fierce yulture conscience,
but casting before IT the food of pretended
regret, and false but apparent eagerness for
justice. lie hopes to appease tho names OF
his slaughtered victims-yictims To his false
hood aud treachery--by sacrificing upon
their graves becatomO of innocent men.
by base misrepresentation OF the conduct oil
the defendants, no induced his imprudent
friends To attempt vindiration OF his pre-
tended wrongs by violence and bloodshed.
His Clsnsmen gathered at his call and fol-
lowed him Tor vengeance; but when the
eight began, and the keen weapons flashed
In the sharp conflict where was this wordy
Worrior? Ave, where was ROderiCk then
No blast upon his bugie horn encouraged
his companions "a they were laying
down their lives in his quarrel no gleam
OF his dagger indicated a desire to avenge
their fall with treacherous cowardce he
left them to their fate and all his vaunted
courage ended in ignominious flight,
"Sad and gloomy il the path that lies
before him. You will in few moments
dash, untasted, from his lips the sweet cup
of revenge, to quah whose intoxicating con.
tents he has paid price that would have
purchased the goblet OF the Egyptian queen.
! behold gathering around him, thick and
fast, dark and corroding cares. That face,
which looks 50 ruddy, and oven now IL
flushed with shame and conscious gilt, Will
from this day grow PALE until tho craven
blood shall refuse To visit his haggard cheek.
In his broken aud distorted sleep his
dreams viii ba more fearful than those OF the
false, perjured Clarence and around his
waking pillow, in the deep hours Of night
will fit tho ghosts of Rothwell and OF Meeks =,
shrieking their curses in his shrinking ear.
"Upon his head rests not only all the
blood shed in this unfortunate strife, but
also the sOul-killing crime Of perjury iOr
surely IA he lives did words of craft and
fa!sehood fall from his lips ere they were
hardly loosened from the Holy Volume. But
4 dismiss him, and do consgn him tn the
furie,S trusting, in all charity, that tho terri
bic punishment he must suffer from the
scorpion lash OF guilty conscience VIII be
considered in his last account"