The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-03-25

ents. He IL told TO lie down. but he fights
his attendants until he falls hack and Is
weakeran weaker. and dies for people with
whom he had no kinship, and far away from
his W family. and is hastily put away In a
strangers tomb and only the flfth part of u
newspaper line tells us OF his sacrifce-his
name lust mentioned among five. Yet he
has touched the farthest height OF sublimity
in that three weeks OF humanitarian service.
He goes straight rs an arrow to the bosom
Of Him who said. II was sick. and We Wis
tied Me-" Life for life. Blood for blood.
Substitution!
In the legal profession I see the same prin-
ciple OF self sacrifice. In 1916 William Free
man., a pauperized idiotic negro, was at
Auburn, n. Y. on tria! for murder. He hal
slain the entire Van Nest family. The foam.
Ing wrath OF the community could DO kept
on him only by armed constables. Who
would volunteer TO be- his counsel? No
attorney wanted to sacrifice his popularity
by such an ungrateinl task. All were silent
save one-a young lawyer with feeble voice
that could hardly be heard outside the bar,
pale aud thin aud awkward. 1t was William
II. Seward. who saw that the prisoner was
ldiotlc anu irresponsible and ought to be but
in an asylum rather than put to death.
the heroic c0unsel utterIng tneSs beautiful
words:
II speak now In the hearing OF u people
who have ~prciudged prisoner and con-
uemned me Tor pleading In his behalf. He
Is aconvict, n pauper. n negro, without intel
iect, sense or emotion. MY child with an
altectionate smile dlsarms my careworn lace
OF It's frown whenever l cross my threshold.
The beSgar In the street obliges me to give
because he says. God ble's YOU as ! pass.
My dog caresseS mo with loneliness II | Will
but smile on him. My horse recognizes mo
when | Ill his manaer. What reward, what
gratitude, what sympathy and auec-
ton can ! expect here! There the pris-
oner sits. Look at him. Look nj the assem-
biage around you. Listen to their i'll sup
pressed ceusures aud their excited fears AMI
tell me where among my ~neighbors or my
fellow men, where even in his heart car
expect to ind a sentiment. n thought, not to
say oil reward or OF acknowledgment, or
even OF recognition! Gentlemen. you may
think OF this evidence what you please,
bring IN what verdict you can. but | assev-
erate before heaven and You that. to tho
best OF my knowledge and belief, the pris-
oner at the bar does not at this moment
know whyit Is that my shallow TAILS ON YOU
instead oil his own
Inc SallowS got its viciim, but tho post
mortem examination OF tho poor creature
showed TO an the surgeons ana TO AL the
world that the publc was wrong, that Will
lam IL. seward was right ana that hard,
stony step OF ooloquy IN the Auburn court
room was tho irSt step OF the stairs OF amt
up winch he went to the top. or to within
one step OF the top. thai last denied him
through the treachery OF American politics.
Nothing subllmer was ever seen in an Amer
ican courtroom a Wiiiani III. Seward.
without reward, Standing between the fury
OF the popnince ana mo loathsome imbccile.
Hupslitutior!
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turner was me' oS II Volley OF abuse from
an me arr galleries. ol-LITop4' Hts l'arnt-
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