Year: 1873




Al this time Frank was supported at college
through hts mothers means, net getting sight Of


sisa s ss o. VIII his
until 1859 or 1870. when his mother began to ex:
psrs'nce the e. unendarabls persons! violence and
oftaat cruelty They had detailed TO them his con.
Neither oy word or act did he do or say
the time he Kept she society Of his mother untii
TINS SAD case was spoken Of From this time for
account OF himsel) only as fierce, blood thirsty,
ruifanly, impious, abominabe, cked perse-
against % his 1s tnst
grandfather whom this little boy had known
as a father and protector. During all that time
tween the father and the son. the son had
never known his father in the capacity of father.
dence in oil tins case that the father ever ad-
dressed to him one kind or tender word from the
church TO place OF amusement, to the green, TO
party Of friends, or took him by the M hand IN
cniidn0oa across the street or exnioited ior nm
any kind. He knew him not as father except that
he was so by report. He knew him as father
merely as he might have known an ancestor by
pedigree. In ordinary cases, where the parties
had been together, they might suppose there were
years, and that would be reasonably presumptive
IN the absence Of all evidence to the ss!s con,
tnat it was so in this case. 1t was an al.
firmative without proof when an EFFORT
ruled out the Court held it to be
and as matter not to be heard. But they had
right to the negative, that II ala not appear that
the last disastrous hour when they met together,
exhibited to him or to any one OF his children the
were in those abomnable letters which had been
read during the trial the very distinct
IN so many words that for the precious dollar lor
the paltry, petty income coming from his fathers
estate, part OF which, In common reason, the chill
He se small value on MS Children ey
had the facts showing gross undutiiul, violent con-
duct on the part OF the father and that Frank
never knew his father as parent, got no recog-
milton from him, got nothing that could have
engendered tenderness in the bosom OF a
child Having called the attention of the jury to
these facts he asked them to consider, earnest
ness and good faith, how Frank stood re,ated to
life and at the time Of this occurrence. 1t said
that he stood IN the relation Of child to parent,
by ties the most SACRED Sne knd and BY the
father with reverence and respect, and that he
could at any time, or under any circumstance
fence Of his mother against his father, was sin
against humanity which nothing else but his incar-
II he should be convicted, would expiate. But the
elements which went to make up such case as
conduct of the father was abominable, so disgust
ing, so monstrous as proved by the letters which
the father had poured IN BY the Column ora On
see that he stood as nothing in the contemplation
OF his son but knave desperate, dangerous
enemy. What was the fourth commandment 1t
included obedience to your father and mother.
That divine command related not to acts at all 1t
spoke the language OF human nature and of social
law. God expressed the command, "honor NY
father and thy mother" He put it TO the
fart this YOUTH sYsy to his Da
the great Father OF us all, despite the most abso
lutte convictions Of duty, command him to hold
to % nonor n ms ISIS father No. nature did not re-
that nat prseept require it il from any human
regard to the mother to the father. The gentle
men of the jury well knew that II there was any
that avne III nuncton it o. was % in regard to the
mother-to the mother who bore the prisoner
who nursed him. tended him IN his weakness,
cherished him and made him good and amiable and
yirtuOus. The command was "Honor thy mother"
The father whom he was called upon to honor,
vective had threatened all kinds OF insults to her;
had threatened to shed her blood; to rip out her
entrails, and had used to her the most disgusting
| terms that could be imagined-terms the most cal
culated to excite the horror OF child. Surely it
would have been violation OF Gods law, of
reason and OF common sense to have non,
not be honored, and ceuld not by any possibility,
be regarded as standing in the relation of father
father who was no protection to dear and i, be-
sort OF relation that enoined on the child the duty
OF obedience, respect or veneration, or in any way
!
| ing in the relation of protector to his wife and
children. Here was this father threatening to break
pistol shoot them. And here was this young man
ready to defend his mother and family,
wild beast who came among them. That
was the most highest and honorable duty
that could devolve upon any man. however old or
young, and when they came to consider the cir
cumstances in which this poor young man was
placed let them consider hum by some other than
an iron-handed law which said that, as
the law had been violated, his young life
must be forfeited He asked them was there a
human being lit to live on the earth who would
for yoursS" Here was this poor boy at the knees
of his loving mother, whom; according to Gods
and defended her. We will take him forth,
of cy let to Se see Tuns
was hard to deny that human laws were made for
human beings. He was not urging that they were
possible circumstances OF this case. He was ad.
dressing himself to the Important points OF
s nf the nA wt% ns h se
Let them look at the acts Of this
young man in regard to the monssrous Gnaraster
worth, distinguished tor all the virtues OF life,
came before them as the first grand picture in this
unhappy family presentation. They tuned to his
word could be said against any of them ;, It
an o e
and false pretence, in vessel. and poured it in
at the creation OF this Mansfield Tracy walworth.
They had seen by his letters what sort OF man he
was; the exact opposite OF the other members OF
the family. The exact opposite was that noble,
pure lady who was brought before them on this
most deplorable occasion to present her narra-
tive. Surely, he could say nothing in praise
OF her. She had met all this terrible
trial with the most delicate observance OF the
kindest duty that wife could perform to her chill
dren and family. She supported her children
while her husband did not, and the jury could see
what the children were She brought them up IN
health, and gave them every necessary they re-
qured; they would be sure to become respectable
members Of society She never Cherished In any way
any Ill feeling. She appeared now before them
calm, tranquil ladylike, and truthful to the letter.
seeking to perform her duty to her only protector,
her first-born-the only protector that she ever
knew IN this lie III the immediate circle OF her
family. she has exhibited frmness While the
demons oil the law were pressing TO destroy her pro-
tector she had no tears 10 shed. While the combat
lasted, and the jury held in their hands the honor
and good lame OF the Walworth family she had no