The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-03-12

NAMED after darkness had fallen and
all had gone and before the dawn a
woman was at the sepuleher? Did
you know that John Sewers wife.
Caroline. stood in the face OF the
Tories pistol With threats against
her life and the lives Of her children
If she did not betray the whereabouts
lof her husband; that she stood and
dared them 10 kin her? Did YOU
hnoW that in thousands of cases in the
days OF the pioneers, il was a woman
who stood and loaded the earbine for
her husband to FIRE until he was slain
and then sacrificed her life to save
her children?
Meeks, did you ever see a father
and a mother at the bedside Of a
dying child? Who is il that sustains
and comforts, who drives despair
away? Did you know that one ten
years younger than Robin Cooper
the Maid of Orleans marched to the
stake and sacrificed herself after the
performance of deeds that immortal
lied her name? Meeks wants a man
like Morgan to contradict women like
Mrs. Eastman and Mrs. MeCrory and
Miss Fort
Mr.. Gamers speech was chiefly
plain, unadorned argument. 1t was
based largely on the testimony of the
defendants and showed that the con-
fession o fthe defendants proved Sen
ator Carmack was justifiable in be-
lieving that the Coopers intended to
kill him. Mr.. Garner put it person
ally before the jury.
Clear Presentation.
Suppose" he said, that you we're
running a paper, and had used my
name. I had sent you message that |
if my name appeared again one or the
other of US must die. My name ap-
peared again the next morning. At
noon that day you received word that
l was upon the streets, armed, and
to take your life on sight.
Suppose. while you were speaking
to lady, I, who had not spoken to
you for months, should call your
name, standing behind the lady; you
look up and see me with hand out
toward you. In the street,
in an unusual position, you see my
son advancing toward you. Would
you, seeing the men who had threat
ened your life surrounding you, would
you not feel justified in drawing a
weapon to defend yourself?
John Sharp saw enough at the cor
ner to justify him, according to the
declaration of his attorney, in stating
to Miss Skef1ngton that Col. Cooper
was killing Senator Carmack. Didn't
Carmack see enough to justify him in
that he was about to be
killed? John Sharp saw enough to
make him believe, when he heard
shots, that it was Col. Cooper killing
Senator Carmack-not Carmack kill
ng Cooper Senator Carmack looked
Up and saw his doom. He saw the
leadly, ferocious malignity in Col.
Jooper's eye. He saw him before
lin, standing still. He saw his son
O his side, advancing. He remem-
,ered the threats that had been sent
o him, the warnings of his friends.
not word had been spoken he saw !
Ieath staring at him from the eyes OF
duncan Cooper, and he was justified, l
lie had every reason for drawing his
istol in the effort to save his life.
carmack Made No Threat.
They come to you and cry out that
was murderer; that they
ad to shoot in their own self-defense. u
hey have never introduced witness II
ere to show that he had made u
hreat, and when we endeavored to 7
how what Senator Carmack had said ~
r done they objected. Under the law -
hey had the right to show anything I"
nat he had ever said about these de-
any threat that he had made. =
i'd they do it? Isn't it strange that .
hey resisted every effort to show 8
hat he had said? Were they afraid u
, let you know? "'
They say that he was a murderer.
hen he left The Tennessean Office S
RS. Clark saw him and he was in
pleasant, genial mood. Was he
urderer then? He went into the
Jug store and DR.. Thompson saw no W
dications that he was a murderer W
en. He talked to Mrs. Williams and be
slped her on the car, then as always ui
easant and courteous. Was he a tv
urderer then? He stopped and
liked to Jordan Stokes, less than 400 re
~ FROM, tho rIaca he mot HE death NJ