St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-07

lucrative manhood, all the operations
of your minds which you use in daily
life, with those that you love best and
with those that you hate worse; to sur
render and cancel all the operating
forces of your mind and soul for a
blind, suspicious credulity in the power
OF new-fangled penitence, which
mounts in its bloody garments on this
witness stand, a blasphemy and a libel
to civilization and to the God before
whom he raised his hand, and have
them perpetuate and you perpetually
be referred to as the consciences and
the minds who bade the judicial muir
der take his life. That is this ques-
ton, plain and simply brought down
here before you; committed now to
Your charge. Consider now for a mo-
ment, gentlemen of the jury, what an
American trial is and under what prin-
eiples and in what economy it comes
before you as a jury. Our fathers, our
English fathers, our German fathers,
our Scandinavian fathers, believe in
jury trials. Each time the jury trial
was impeached upon the people rose
and preserved it. In those olden times
it was encroached upon by the powers.
In these modern times it is encroached
upon and approached only by calm
hypocrisy and sophistry. The other
jury stood through the light of the
Middle Ages, resisting all physical
power. 1t has as yet stood against the
encroachments of sophistry and fraud
and positions and claims. What is a
jury? Is the jury an arm of the state?
No. Is it the arm of the defendant?
No. Is it the court? No-a part of the
court. 1t has, and you have, distinct,
reserved, absolute responsibility, which
you cannot share with the court, or
with the county attorney, with the at
torney for the defense, or with any
body else. You are made the absolute
judges of these facts. No man on
earth can influence you. Logic, mercy,
charity, justice, these alone shall in
fluence you. You must take the law
from the court, and the court must
take the facts from you. How are
you to approach judgment? How are
you to enter upon the formation of
your judgment? For your verdict is
not your wish, not your prejudices, not
your belief, but is your Judgment. A
judgment on what? Not probabilities.
Not possibilities. Not upon the doc
trine of chances. Not upon the doc
trine that the public veal will be best
served by finding a victim for some
horrid crime.
But your judgment must be upon the
evidence, the evidence. And the evil
dence is not that which is sworn to,
but it is that which is sworn to that
you believe, and all that is sworn to
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And, in the ascertainment as to which
you believe, you call up those two
fold powers in your life; one called the
intuitive power-the soul power; one
the mind, called the logical power; and,
when they unite there is Judgment
When they do not unite there is rea-
sonable doubt. You meet a man; you
have never seen him before and you do
not exchange a word with him; some
one says How do youlike so and so?"
You reply 81 don't like him. ''Why?"
well, the reason why can't tell; but
l do not like him" That is the judg-
ment of the soul. Absolute in men,
women and children, but stronger in
women, and children. Strong in ac-
cordance with the development of the
soul in man. But strongest in women
and children because they have more
soul and greater Souls than man. You
meet man, perhaps, and are intro
duced to him; he begins to talk to you
upon given subject; say railroads or
farming; and you put your knowledge
of farming or your knowledge of rail-
roads into your conversation with him
and at the end of the conversation you
say to he, or to whoever introduced
you, ST don't think much of that fell
low "Why?' Because he don't
know anything about farming; he
don't know anything about railroad
ing" That is the logical judgment of
the mind. The soul has nothing to do
with that.