The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-09-11

; sweets of married life. you under
stand.
Its neck or nothing In this case
It's hang him or turn him aloose
} There are no half way grounds. Who
has shown any generalization In this
case? No one but Mr.. Figuers. There
is not a threat shown in all the evi
dence. You heard Dr. Glenn say that
the light of reason can be over.
thrown in a second and you know 1t
is the truth. As he stood there in
that pool room at night and saw Spot
Long, the picture gallery of his life
fell shattered in ruins and nothing but
the ghosts of the past were left.
Reason was overthrow and he shot
and shot and shot, as who would not
have shot?"
Talk about the preservation of
law and order. A good shooting does
more to preserve that than any other
things, and it did in this case. He
went to Pack and said I have killed
man. What did Pack say? Was
it Washington Long? 7 have been
expecting this That impressed my
mind. 1t showed what the people of
that town had been hearing and what
they expected Pack simply reflected
public sentiment, and he told the boy
to get in his buggy and go home. I
Pack said, I'm sorry you had to do /
IT, That was it, he had to de it, and |
every man in the reach of my voice
knows he had to do it." 4
They laugh at our experts, and yet
the Acknowledgement had them dis
missed for time in order to submit
4 hypothetical question 70 them. Why
lid they not come across With that
question? They couldn't- They just
backed clean down. They knew that
my reputable doctor in the world
would have said it was case of ir-
esistable impulse, or emotional in
anity. The mind is made up Of many
lements and a man don't have to be
razy to have his mind unbalanced at !
time"
Turning to- the unwritten law, to
-hich the speaker had made refer
nee on several occasions he said: =
The gentleman who opened this
ase has told you that the unwrftten y
w ts- written nowhere's except on =
lie hearts of murderers.l | regret to :
ear reputable attorney argue such -
point.before jury of southern men :"
a, southern country. I regret to u
ear man argue to you gentlemen y
at woman's virtue is of less value ~
an a mons life. In the one the life &c
one is placed in jeopardy, in the -
her the soul is wrecked, all hope is
lnished, the bloom and freshness -
\ eo;rn,ss "a ,,ri+,- e. ...,,5 a,, III
The speaker then read number or W
Ipreme Court references showing ~
here husband or father had ~
enged a desecrated home and u
lere the act was upheld by the -
urt, and in some instances tribute u
Is paid the home and the right of al
9 protector to take summary ven OIL
ance was upheld
1T is written, it is written" the II
aaker said, "that the wife and the "
lighter shall be protected from the
spoiler, and that vengeance shall be
zen by the husband. or the father,
d it shall be so written in this case.
few days since I stood on sacred WI
,und. Mighty forest trees stirred
cadence to the gentle breeze. The
lg of birds was in the air and across
verdant meadow a partridge '
istled to its mate. 1 gazed upon At
stately tomb of the safnted dead, WI
my mind went back to the days of she
splendor. | saw him honored ter
e and time again; saw him stand ST.
the halls of the Senate and help to WI
m the laws of a mighty land I All