The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-04-18


at Philadelphia in 1900, all
of whom heneyfuggled with one of the
conspirators and became accessories
after the fact? How can these things
be and not excite our special wonderP
But why is it that everything in the
south from the highest courts down to
the private opinions of the citizen are
criticised and condemned by our north
ern brethren? Do they honestly be-
lieve we are not capable of self-govern-
ment, or have they mounted such
high horse in their wild flight as
" world power that it has crowned
them with an imperial glory and honor
until it has become their right and duty
TO dictate our laws and customs {?
All students of American political
history can now see that it was the
thirty-two years of federal Odministra-
ton by those four illustrious Virgin
ians, Washington, Jefferson, Madison
and Monroe, that made constitutional
republic possible. The four years OF
John Adams had piloted the federal
ship of state onto the breakers of Brit
ish hereditary aristocracy, and another
term by the same pilot would have
swamped her in that great Hamiltonian
trough Of the sea-a limited monarchy
and an elective king.
That all anarchists are simply de-
monized human beings / think can not
be disputed, but some are more COM
pletely under the control of the wicked
spirit than others is equally clear. But
passing by the many cases where Christ
and the apostles cast them out, let us
take a clearly marked case in our own
history. In 1916, at Auburn, N. Y,
William Freeman entered the house of
John G. Van Nest at 10 o'clock of the
night and butchered Mr.. Van Nest and
his wife, carrying an unborn baby, a
child sleeping in the bed, and the
mother-in law of Van Nest, Mrs. Wy
koff. Taking horse from the stable
he fed, but was followed and brought
back. After lying in Jail many months
he was put upon trial for these five
murders. William H. Seward, an EN-.
inent lawyer of Auburn, volunteered
for the defense. Two weeks were spent
with experts before a commission in
lunacy. Eleven of the jurors said he
was responsible for his crime, but one
Juror who had been put on the panel
evidently for that purpose, said he was
, morally insane and should not be tried
: for his life. The attorney-general was
John Van Buren,, an ambitious demo
8 crat. Mr.. Seward was a famous crimi
| nal lawyer and saved most Of his clients
8 by the insanity dodge, but he stood a
Q the head of the wing party in the state
This enabled him to put the case on
: political basis. The defense was mora
s insanity, but it failed and the negrC
i was convicted. While awaiting the da,
d of execution the negro took sick ant
y died. And now the experts got anoth
y or whack at him, and uncapped hi
|, brain in the post norton and looked a
= the cerebrum, and cerebellum, and tn
1t nudulla oblongata and all the convolu
70 tions of the brain, but found no nidu
10 where the soul had rested nor any den
d where his conscience had nestled, an
l. so they reported him with an abnorma
l. brain. That was all Mr.. Seward need
10 ed. He conld twist the law and til
L the facts and juggle with words as we
10 as any other crafty lawyer.
's But let US take look at Freema
Of himself. Sally Freeman, his mother
le had an Indian for her father and ne
gress for her mother. She lived on
a. very low plane and would get drum
A. on occasions, and had the savage bloc
al of both Indian an negro in her veins
Of When her son, William, was abou
N. seventeen years old he was convicte
" of crime and sent to the penitentiar
1t there in Auburn On his release frol
10 prison doubtless the wicked one ha
II taught him to hate white people an
1t filled his heart with murder, and he 81
is lected the Van Nest family as the plaC
is of least danger to himself.
y do not believe any fair-minded ma
Or can take up this case, read the case an
Of the pleadings, and especially the argr
st ment of Mr.. Seward, and fail to see b
n was actuated alone by malevolent spil
r, it to foment discord between the SCI
10 tons which finally led up to the war
es 1861. He was like Peter the Herm
D. who lashed all Europe into frenzy
q rescue the Holy Sepulchre" from th
Or Saracins until 120OO,00O of delude
10 mortals persisted from the earth. Sc
r. Manifold Cyclopedia, vol. "a, and Bl
a ker's life of W. 81. Seward, PIP. so, 12i
1. 243, 3O2, Ala. M. T. P.
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