The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-09-26

this sort of thing. IL is as natural, am
told. for him to fall upon his knees before
juries as it was natural for Cruncher's
wife. the hone st tradesmsn Of the Tale
of Two Cities who made his living by
robbing the graves of the dead, to flop
before her husband. He did il in the
Heath case, where he, for coin, was prose-
cutting an innocent man for his life by
testimony so perjured and infamous that
its chief perpetrators have since been in
dicted by the Grand Jury of that county"
Mr.. Delmas made an elaborate defense
of Attorneys Cross and Heynemann, in
response TO the furious attack made upon
them by the Sacramento lawyer. He said /:
"Ob, it was a glorious sight. it was a
glorious triumph, that made the rabble
shout and clap their chapped hands and
throw I'D their greasy nightcaps to see
the Sacramento lawyer tear to pieces two
defenseless members of our bar who had
no right, no power to reply to him. And
W hat had they done? They had been
guilty of the crime of producing evidence
which exposed the character of Mr.. John
sons client"
But when the famous lawyer arrived at
his peroration he rose supreme. With the
following scathing remarks he closed his
case:
Gentlemen, in consonance with these
appeals which have been made to you by
the able and eloquent counsel on the other
side-both of them-you have heard fire.
uuent invocations to God to help them to
accomplish their purposes. They call
upon God to help theml
when | heard this appeal, gentlemen,
could not but ask, To what God is this
appeal made? Is it to God the Father, the
creator of heaven and earth, who in the
dawn of cieation held converse with the
patriarchs of old-to him who made the
covenant with his chosen people, when
your ancestors, sirS, were the high priests
and ministers Of the great Jehovah; to
him who, on the top of Sinai, girded by
lightning and shrouded in the storm, wrote
with finger of FIRE upon the tables OF the
law, Thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not
steal; thou shalt not commit adultery |;
thou shalt not bear false witness against
thy neighbours it to him, the Father, that
this woman appeals?
"Or is it TO him, God the Son, the lowly
Nazarene, the Redeemer of mankind-to
him. whose coming the prophets of Israel
foretold, each tone OF the hymn grander,
loftier than before, as the son that should
be born unto Jadah, whose name shall be
called the wonderful, counsellor, prince of
peace, the Mighty Lord. the everlasting
God? Is Ii to him who when upon Col
gootha, deserted by all, in the agony of his
soul crying out, my God, hast thou for
saken me-? looked down. and saw his
mother. faithful even unto death, weeping
at the foot of the cross-ls it to him tina
this woman who tells you that she aban-
doned her child, because it was burden
to her to become an object of public
charity-is it TO him, the Redeemer Christ,
that she dares appeal to sanction and
further this Ubiquitous cause?
"Or is to that God, worshiped with
heatben rites. upon pagan SIR mes, Nam
mon, the god OF gold. the lowest Of the
spirits thar fell from heaven, upon whose
affairs truth and virtue and Justice are
daily offered up as sacrifice-is it to that
God that an appeal is made to help her in
this case?
Gentlemen, bowling with low and rev.
ersnt head before the supreme majesty of
the Creator of all, we dare not here lift
up our eyes to him ar appeal to himI But
to you we do appeal as men; we do appeal
to you as American citizens; By all that is
just, by all that is sacred, by the laws of
your country. by the evidence 10 this case
protect the memory Of the dead from this
monstrous Dissertation! Protect woman,
widow, from this unhallowed spolation !!
Protect this community. whose ministers
you are. from the foul robbery of a schem-
ing and inscriptions woman! Protect