The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-09-13

fendant and announces IL 10 an ~"
Tbore is no way out of that Sentiehleh.
no amount of squirming, no amour, ~
Iooical trickery. and no amount OF oich
orinp with words will get arouhu ihe
f.ct that the verdict was rendered on
Lanrsov OK parte testimony. the very
or;,,a which he charges had been COM
,n;ttad against him in its June meet
mo bv this Board of Trustees. Nnere
ms that sincere conscience OF his When
in that court room in which he was the
s~elf-appointed juror. witness ana judge
and TO which the defendant was not ad-
unified. bearing the seal OF our highest
conrt comes his verdict of blasphemF
against the defendant: l ask you. gem
tIemen. when you come 10 MAKE up
voIr verdict. to take in all these facts.
TO review them. and If you hnd Il YER
dict of guilt in every charge. If III the
range of mercy. justice and truth, you
can tighten on this one. let II be done
In the fourth place. Judge Clark
charges the defendant with venallty. by
asking the question. Il wonder now
n,uch personal gratuity he received Tor
tbis specch? 1t is hard for Il man TO De
natient when he sees the low ana IaiSe
measures which certain men put 10 NM
For fifteen years in IL Southern Aletiod-
III conference. at the call of the de-
PENDANTS name. the answer has peeh'
Nothing against him. That IS the
measure of his church on HIM. but
hear the measure of your hlSneSt Juui-
ciary upon Il common citizen: II Is that
he * guilty of venality. 1t is true that
tbp man who makes free to charge
other men with venality should retire TO
his own closet and ask his OWN con
science as to whether he has not Il price
for himself.
Rut- where is the evidence by which
he cxpects to sustain the accusation:
The prosecution lodges this charge. NO
douht he wishes that the defendant
would dodge it. If the defendant IS
guilty Of evasion. then what must YOU
saw about the prosecuting witness: Not
\ question did they hear bearing on It.
The defendant did ask witnesses; ne
asked DIR. Wilson,: he asked a number
of South Carolina gentlemen, whether
tbcy thought that was the character
of the defendant, and every man OF
them said Mo- Any man should be
slow to charge another with Il crime 50
low. and should pray a kind Providence
to save him from measuring humanity
by such low standard, and it men are
guilty of these things, for the good OF
humanity keep it from the public ears.
But this Supreme court judge, the CEN
servator-One of the final conServatots
of moral truth and civil rectltudt'
makes free to charge that crime against
the president of Trinity College, and
hadn't a word of testimony to prove it.
but SAYS. Give me thirty days time
and will Get it." He got fOrty-three
DAYS and never secured a word of this
promised testimony. but comes into this
court and goes around the charge With
Il display of high-handed innocence.
Now, whatever else you may find.
gentlemen, in your review of this ma
ter, / do not hesitate to say you can
not find one word that ought to make
YOU stop a moment at this charge.
In the fifth place he charges the de
PENDANT with having the reputation of
a wire-pulling politician of the ward
type in South Carolina. Mark the
words, g%entlemen; not simply a poi
{ tician. not simply 4 wirc-pullcr. but Il
!, wire-pulling politician of the ward
, type. Who can define the meaning Of
that? | stand here to say that the de-
PENDANT doesn't know what he means
by ward politics. Providence has sent
his lief rom the cradle to this houl
along a different plane and along a dit-
ferent pathway from the dirt of what
/, he means by ward politics." wire
f, pulling ward politicians" If q ward
politician is Il mean man. then how
much meaner is a w~ire-pulling one!
That man would out-Beelzebub Berl-
zebub. This, gentlemen. is not the
language of Il calm man; it is the Ian
: guagc of an enraged man; it is not the
deliberate utterance of a man sure of
the foundation of his statements. Pool
human nature when once turned loose
under passion. drags its anchor and too
frequently drives its bow into the rocks
and wrecks itself. And when men be
come enraged. adjectives become cheap
and the charging of crime becomes
: pastime.
This charge. gentlemen. refers to the
defendants South Carolina record. anG
South Carolina testimony is necessary
for its establishment. Because YOU as
his brethren. and the church which yor
: represent, could not know all the facts
I in the case. the defendant was willing
I to undergo the humiliation of walking
in the streets of the towns of his Ia
tive State and telling his friends Ii.
! had come back to ask for 4 vind;catior
before a North Carolina body of Meth
odists. You may think that a small
! thing, but a sensitive nature. having tC
harden its face in its young years to q
. task like that is no small undertake ng-
G to tell the ISen who very nearly nursed
d him that he was in search of evidence
!; to prove to his church in anothe: State
that he IS not a ScOundrcl. say that
b he was willing to undergo that iIumllia-
n ton for your sake, not because he fell
that before God he needed it. but rs
t unholy hands had been laid on holy in.
$ %terests. he was determined that the
spots left by those finger touches should
be washed off and he should he
d bleached.
+ The supreme question concerning The
It charge is. where did Judge Clark get
his original information!' He did moi
know it personally. for he so stated in
q your meeting of July 18th. Max tha+
S gent9emen; he was not writing What
n he personally knew, for after haviaa
time to consider it, having been sum.
moncd before this court to nrovo +
4 he was forced to say that he had n.
personal knowledge of any facts 10 SIS