Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 26 November 1859 — Page 1

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NEW SERIES--VOL. II, NO. 19.

From the New York Tribune.

THE DIAMOND WEDDING.

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STEDMAS.

Lurol Lorct Lore! what timet were thoic, 8«ia* ere the of belles and beaux, AndBrossel* lace and silken hose. When, in the ereat Arcadian close. Yon married "Psjeho under the rO!e,

With only the

rttat

for beddiog!

Heart to heart, and hand to hand, You followed Natures sweet command— ltoaming lovingly through the land,

Nor wiahed for a Diamond Wedding.

So have we rend Sn clawie Otld, Ifow ll«ro watched for her beloTcd, Impassioned youth, Thunder. Sho KK* the fairest of the fair: And wrapped him round with her golden hair. Whenever he landed cold and bare, With nothing to cat nnd nothing to wear, .\ nd wetter than nnr gander for l.ovo itsa Love, and belter than money— The slyer tho theft, the sweeter Ihc honey— And kipwina VM clover, nil tho world over,

Wherever Cupid micht wander. .-/.

So thousands of years have comc and gone, And still th« moon is ghining on. Still IlytiH-n'.-i torch is lighted And hitherto, in this land of tne Weit, Mont couples in love have thought it best To follow tho ancient way of the rest.

And quietly get united.

Out now, Trne Love, you're growing old. Hought and nold, with silverand gold. Liko a house or a horse nnd carriage! ,£$-• •. Midnight talks.

Moonlight walks,

The glance of the eye nnd sweetheart sigh. And shadowy haunts with no one by,

I do not wish to disparage But every kin* Has a price for its bliss. In the modern oodo of marriage

And tho compact sweet, Is not complete.

Till the high contracting parties meet Before the altar of Miunmnn And the bridomustbe led ton silver bower. Where pearls nnd rubies fall inashower

That would frighten Jupiter Amnion!

I need not tell How it befell,

(Since Jenkins has told the story 'Over and over and over again. In a stylo I cannot hope to attain, K!-

Aml covered hiimelf with glory!) How it befell, one summer's day, The King of the Cubans strolled this wayKing January's hisniimo. they say— And foil in love with the Princess May,

The reigning belle of Manhattan Nor how he begun to smirk and sue. And dress a* lovers who comc to woo. Or usMnx Marutzek nnd Jullien do •_ When they sil full-bloomed in the ladies'view.

And llourish the wondrous baton.

He wasn't one of your Polish nobles. Whose presence their country somehow troubles. And so our cities receive them: Nor ono of yotlr luake-believo Spanish grandees, Wrho ply our daughters with lies and candics.

Until tho poor girls believe them. Xo, he was no such charlatan— Full of gasconade and bravado, Count doHobokenFliuhiii-tlie-pttn— itut a regular Don Estabau S a a a us ad Scnor Orandissimo Oviedo! /-y. He owned the rental of liulf Havana And all Mataiuas and Santa Anna, ,:i itit-h as he was, could hardly hold A candle to light the mines of Kold Our Cuban possessed, choke full of diggers And lirouil plantation", that,"ill round tigures, AVere stocked with at least five thousand niggers.

''Outlier ye rosebuds while ye may!" The Senor swore to curry the day— To capture tho beautiful Prince?-: Mny. \Vith his battery of treasure Velvet and luce she should not lack Tillany, Iliuighwoilt. Hall A Black, a (ienin and Stewart, his suit sliould back

Ami come and go at her pleasure Jet nnd lava—silverand gold— (Jariiet.-—emeralds rare to bvliold— I liaiiumds—-::ipphires—wealth untold— '.1. All were hers to have and to hold

Kiiough to fill a peck mca.ui:e! -::i

lie did not bring nl! his forces on \toiice. but like a crafty old Don, Who many a heart had fought and won,

Kept bidding a little higher:

•*. And every time In nuide his bid— And what -he said and ul 1 tin did—^ "fwas written down

For the good of the town.

Hy .Ieems, of The Daily Flyer.

A-oneh and loirses. you'd think, would buy K-r the Don, an easy victory Hut slowly our Princess yielded A diamond necklace caught her eye. Itut a wreath of pearls tir-M made her sigh. She knew the north of each nniiden glance, Ami like young colts that curvet and prance. She led the Don a deuce of a dance,

In spile of the wealth hi'wielded. She si.icI such a tiru of silks and laces, *i ,leW"N. md golden dressing-cases, •/».-

And ruby brooches, and jets and pearls, That every one of her dainty curls 'i Hreiight ho price of a hundred common girls

Folks tliought the lass demented at last a wonderful diamond ring. A remilur Koh i-noor,did the thing. And."igliing with love, orsomethiiig the snnic,

I What's in a inline'.')

The Princess May consented.

King! ring tho bell-, nnd hrimr A I the people to see the thing. I.et the gaunt and hungry mm ragged poor Throng round the great Cathedral door. To wonder what all the hubbub's for.

Ami sometimes stupidly wonder At so much sunshine and brightness which Fall from the church upon the rich

While Ihc poor gel nil the thunder.

Ring! ring, merry bel'.s, ring! O fortunate few Willi letters blue in or a at an a re Fortunate few. whom I dare not imino iiletlante! t!renie do lii crenie! Wo commoner !stood by iho street faeado

Happy mortal! fortunate mini! And Marquis of K1 Dorudo!

In they swept, all riches and grace. Silks and satins and Honiton lace: In they swept from the dazzled sun And soon in the church the deed was done. Three prelates stood on tho chancel high— A knot, that gold and silver oan buy, I told and sih or may yet untie.

Unless it is tightly fii-tened:

What's worth doing at all's worth doing well, And the sale of a young Manhattan'belle Is not be pushed or hastened.

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So two Very Ke\ croud* graced the scene. And tlio tall Archbishop stoixl between. Hy prayer and lasting chastened: The Pope himself would have come from Koine, Kilt urgent matters kept him at home. Hap these robed prelates thought Their words were the power that tied til Hut another power that love knot tieil. And 1 saw the chain round the neck of the brio glistening, priceless, marvelous chain. Coiled with diamonds again and again,

A« befits a diamond wedding

Vet still 'twas a chain—1 thought she knew it And halfway longed for the will to undo it Hy the secret tear she was shedding.

Hot isn't it odd. to think, whenever We. all go through that terrible Kivcr Whose-luggi«h tide alone can sever ..... (The Archbishop ?av-0 the Church decree Hy floating one into Kternity And leaving the other alive as ever— A« each wade« through that ghastly stream, The satins that rustle and gems that glcniu Will grow pale and heavy and sink away To the noisome River's bottom clay Then the costly bride, and her maidens six. Will shiver noon the banks of the Styx. Unite as helpless- as they wore born— aked souls and very forlorn And the beautiful Empress over yonder. Whose crinoline made the wide world wonder—

And even ourselves* Htid ourdcsir little wivr?. Who calico wear each morn of their hvej And the sewing girls—and les rhiffoniers In rags and hunger the livelong day— -. And all the croom* of tho caravan— Aye. even the great Don Kstaban Santa Crux de la Muscovado Scnor Orandissimo Oviedo— That gold-encrusted, fortunate man!— ,si Ml will land in naked equality: The lnnl of a ribboned principality

Will mourn the lo.«« of his cordon 5 The princes.-, too. mu-t shift for herself. •, And lay her royalty on the shelf •art -... Nothing to cat and nothing to ear. Will certainly be the fajlnon there! Ten t« one. and I'll go it alone, id Those most uto a rag ami a bone—

Though hereon earth they labor and groan— Will stand it best when we come torest

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And caught a glimpse of the cavaloadr We ssw the bride 111 bediamonded pride. W

it

jeweled maidens to guard her side-

Six lustrous

inaideio in tarlctnn

She led the van of the caravan: Close behind her, her mother. iDrest. in gorgeous moire antique. That told, as plainly ns words could speak.

She was more antique than the other.) Leaned oil the arm of Don Kstabau Santa Crur.de la Muscovado Scnor (irandissiuio Oviedo

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On the other side of Jordan.

Jfirjjuiies Polk has been convicted at Lafayette of the murder of John Stewart, and sentenced to twenty years imprisonment in the penitentiary.

§Sf "They that take the sword shall perish by the rwpxd."

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ARGUMENT.

Of Hon. Daniel W, Voorhces, of Terre Haute, Indiana, Delivered at Charlestown, Virginia, November 8, 1859, upon the Trial of John E. Cook, Indicted for Treason, Murder, and Inciting

Slaves to rclxl at the Harper's Ferry Insurrection.

VTLRA THE PERMISSION OF THE COURT— .. Gentlemen of the Jury: The place -I occupy in standing before you at this time is one clothed with a responsibility as weighty and as delicate as was ever assigned to an advocate in behalf of an unfortunate "fellow-man. No language that I can employ could give any additional force to the circumstances by which I am surrounded, and which press so heavily upon the public mind as well as on my own. I come, too, as a stranger to each one of you. Your faces I know only by the common image we bear to our Maker but in your exalted character of citizens of the ancient and proud Commonwealth of Virginia, and of the American Union, I bear to you a passport of friendship and a letter of introduction.

I come from the sunset-side of your Western moutains—from beyond the rivers that now skirt the borders of your great State but I come not as an alien to a foreign land, but rather as one who returns to the home of his ancestors, and to the household from which he sprang. I come here not as nn enemy, but as a friend with interests common with yourselves, hoping for your hopes, and praying that the prosperity and glory of Virginia may be perpetual. Nor do I forget that the very soil on which I live in niy Western home was once owned by this venerable Coniuiowealth as much as the soil on which I now stand. Her laws there once prevailed, and all her institutions were there established as they are here. Not only my own State of Indiana, but also four other great .States in the North-west stand as enduring and lofty monuments of Virginia's magnanimity and princely liberality. Her donation to the general Government made them sovoreigu States and since God gave the fruitful land of Canaan to Moses and Israel, sach a gift of present and future empire has never been made to any people. Coming from the bosom of one of these States, can I forget the fealty and duty which I owe to the supremacy of your laws, the sacredness of your citizenship, or the sovereignty of your State?— Kathcr may the cild forget its parent and

with unnatural hand the author of its being! The mission 011 which I have visited vour State is to mc. and to those who are with me, 011c full of the bitterness and poison of calamity and grief. The high, the sacrcd, the holy duty of private friendship for a family fondly beloved by all who have over witnessed their illustrations of the purest social virtues, commands, and alone commands my presence here. And while they arc overwhelmed by the terrible blow which has fallen upon them through the action of the misguided young man at the bar, yet. I speak their sentiments well as my own when I say that one gratification, pure and unalloyed, has been afforded us since our melancholy arrival in your midst. It has been to witness the progress of this court from day to day, surrounded by all that is calculated to bias the minds of men, but pursuing with calmness, with dignity, and impartiality the true course of the law and the even pathway of justicc. I would not be true to the liictatcs of my own heart and judgment did 1 not bear voluntary and emphatic witness to the wisdom and patient kindness of his honor 011 the bench, the manly and geuerous spirit which litis characterized the council for the prosecution, the true, devoted, and highly professional manner of the local counsal here for the defense, the

who invaded her soil with treason and murder, all the safeguards of her Constitution and laws, and placed tliein in her courts upon an equality with her own citizens. 1 know of what 1 speak, aud my love of truth and sense of right forbid 111c to be silent on this point.

Gentleman, 1 atu not here on behalf of this pale-faced, fair-haired wanderer from his home and the paths of duty, to talk to

from Mary Magdalene, and spurned the

lies, I hear the common call which the his

Let us come nea$ each other and haye a proper understanding. I am laboring with you for an object. I think I know

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something of the human heart and of the leading attributes by which it is governed throughout the world. By virtue of those attributes, I feel that we may annihilate the distance that separates oar homes,sweep away all blinding excitement, and sit down together and reason upon this most tragic and melancholy affair as bccomes citizens of the same Government, proud of the same lineage,'actuated by the same interests, and forever linked to the same destiny. You are not merely empanneled in your capacity as jurors to pass upon the life of this erratic youth before you, but the nation can not be divorced from a deep and permanent interest in your deliberations. The crime for which the law claims his life as forfeit is one connected with a question of the weightiest national import—a question which, without any fault of yours, has rudely strained and shaken the bonds which embrace and hold together the States of this Union. This trial is incident to that question, and must be met in the face of the whole nation, and in the view of the entire American people, as a matter of universal interest and concern. The very nature of the offense now under discussion lifts us all to a point of observation on which statemen and patriots have long bent their anxious looks. And the pressing, ever present and determined question of the hour which now sits with you in the jury box, and will retire with you to your deliberations on your verdict, is, how shall you most fully meet the requirements of tho American people at large best conduce to the peace and repose of the Union allay the rushing winds that are abroad on the face of the great deep say peace, be still, to the angry elements of passion and treasonable agitation, and at the same time do all your duty as honest and conscientious men administering the laws of your State?

If it shall be in my power, in some measure, to point out the course by which these great objects may be attained, I shall mark this, otherwise sad day on which I address you, as the brightest to me in the calendar of time. And further, if these objects are to be attained on your part by invoking into your midst, and following the winning counsels of the ineck-eyed and gentle angel of mercy—if you can faithfully discharge your oath as -jurors, and, at the same time, best met the obligations which rest upon you as American citizens by tempering the bitter cup which justice commends to the lips of the prisoner with the ingredient of clemency, I know you, by the universal law of the human heart, will rejoice in such an opportunity, and join in the public and private happiuess which will flow front your verdict. Buy the help of God, and appealing to Him for the purity of the motives which animate my breast, I now proceed to demonstrate such a course as both just and wise iu the case of John E. Cook.

First of all things, gentlemen of the jury, is your duty to Virginia. Whatever she requires at your hands, that yo are to give. Your first love belongs to her she is the matron who has nursed you, and the Queen Mother to whom yon owe allegicnce. As an advocate and defender at home of the doctrines of the State rights men of the school of 1798, I do not conie here to ask you to abate one jot or tittle of your affection and jealousy for the honor and interest of Virginia. Indeed, were such an invocation necessary, which I know it is not, I would invoke you by the great names of your history, by the memory of your ancient renown, by the thrilling associations of the classic soil on which we stand, and by the present commanding attitude which your Commonwealth holds before the world, to be true and loyal to what she lias been, what she is, and what she hopes to be.

But how stands Virginia in reference to the assault which was made upon her citizens and her soil at Harper's Ferry on the I7th dav of October, 1859, and what

scrupulous truthfulness of the witnesses who have testified, and the decorum and justness of the juries who have acted their vindication does she need at your hands parts from the first hour of this Court to for the outrage? Arc the circumstances the present time—I speak in the hearing such as to require of her the re-enactment of the country. An important and mem-! of the Mosaic law, repealed by the benign orablc page in history is being written.— teachings of the Nazarene on the shores Let it not be omitted that Virginia has of Galilee? Is she required to say in a thrown around a band of deluded men, stern and inexorable spirit:

And if any mischief follow, then thou shaltgive life for life. »«. Kye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for ham!, foot for foot.

Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe?",. ,, Not so. She asks .nothing of the kind at your hands. Punishment has already been swift and sure. The measure of her

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you about legal technicalities ot law, born uguinst her is full, and her vindication is of laborious analysis by the light of the ample before the world. She met her inmidnight lamp. I place him before you

gencc f(,r the great wrong committed

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on no such ground. He is in the hands of their hands agains her are, most of them, friends who abhor the conduct of which he ^jjC graves to which Virginians consignhas been guilty. But does that fact debar

lcrs0n the spot, and those who lifted

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leprosy which forbids the touch of the

them few bound in her prisons, and a

him ot human sympathy? Ioos the siin-! fcw others wanderers and fugtives on the pie act smite the erring brother with a 1 faee

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the earth. The executive and citi-

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hand of aficction? Is his voice of rcpen-! feU pon this mad offspring of a loathsome tancc and appeal for forgiveness stifled fanaticism, and the invasion perished at a iu his mouth? If so, the meek Savior of: ing]e blow. Andun the spirit of the anthe world would have rccoiled with horror

rc*|toyou:

jpentant sorrow of Peter who betrayed giDj3|

him. For my client I avow every sympa- }ier jjUrt |)0

your State guided the bolt which

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cushj to King David I would say

"The enemies of the State of ir-

an(j all

that

these

th^ ined as lie is by the fall, yet, trom tlic-(0 jjjs chamber, and wept over the untime depths of the fearful chasm in which he. jy fan

men

Fallen and undone broken and ru- jjC King of Israel rose up and went! whose loins he sprang has been offered in

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stars on high to give light, and created man prisoner at tlie bar! You will probably a joint heir of eternal wealth, and put that the lives of your citiaens have (within him an immortal spark of celcstial been sacrificed. I answer that it is laflame which surrounds His throne, could

remember mercy in executing justicc when has been taken already to atone for life: His whole plan of Divine Government was

assailed and deranged when His law was set at defiance and violated when the purity of Eden had been defiled by the presence and counsels of the serpent— why, so can I, and can you, when the wrong and the crime stand confessed, and every atonement is made to the majesty of the law which the prisoner has in his power to make.

Absoleiu, the rebellious son of

own

wretched make for sympathy more dearly hand against the life of an indulgent faththan if it issued from the loftiest pyramid

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of wealth and power. If He who made emotion in the breast of a jury of Virginians the earth and hung the sun and moon and

loins, who had lifted hie parricidal

may not the world commend a similar

the sorrowful fate of the youthful

me

ntably true but it is also true that life

ti,at the

blood of murderers, older and

wiser than the prisoner, has been poured out in response to the cry of the blood of your eitisena from the ground.

You will say that the soil of your State has been polluted by the foot of die traitor. I answer that the footstep rested bnias for a moment on your border, and was swept away by a whirlwind of patriotic indignation. You will say that your law has been violated your dignity and honor as a free people insulted. I aaswer that, alas! it is too true but I answer, also, that

it is equally troe tlot joor lmra have been fully, thoroughly, and joHly vindicated.— Here in this eooif* agin ind again, the sword of justice, wielded by an even hand, has fallen upon the miserable remnant of the confederated band who impiously mocked the integrity of the American Union by assailing the institutions of Virginia. The leader stands .at the foot of, the gallows, and on its heights' will expiate many crimes against the peace ?nd laws of the country—not least amongst which is the crime of enlisting^ your men, such as the prisoner, in a cruise of piracy against yon and I,and all law-adding citizens of this happy Union. Let th# leader of the mutiny on ship-board perah, bat if it appeals that yoang men have followed false guidance, and been bound in the despotism of an iron will, order them back to duty, and give them one more chance to show whether they aire worthy of life or death. Virginia can thus afford tar act.- It is one of the chief blessings of power that it can extend mercy to the weak and the crown jewel of courage is magnanimity to the fallen.

But there is another point on which Virginia, though mournins for the death of her citizens, has triumphantly met the aspersions and calumnies of the enemies.of her domestic institutions by reason of the late outbreak at Harper's Ferry. This institution of domestic slavery to-day stands before the world more fully justified than even before in the history of this or, indeed, perhaps, of any other country.— The liberator, urged on by false and spurious philanthropy, deceitful and sinister in its origin, and selfish Snd corrupt in its practice, came into ytiir midst.to set the bondsmen free, and Bough violence tore him from his master, Ihoagh liberty was sounded in his ear, though a leader was proclaimed to lead him to the promised land, though an impiously self-styled Moses of deliverance came in the might of the sword and placed arms of bold attack and strong defense in his. hands, yet what a spectacle do we behold! The bondsman refuses to be free drops the implements of war from his hands is deaf to the call of freedom turns against his liberators, and, by instinct obeys the injunction of Paul by returning to his master! Shall this pass for nothing? Shall no note be made of this piece of the logic of our government? Shall the voice of the African himself die unheard on the question of his own freedom? No. It shall be perpetuated. It shall be but in the record.

The slave himself, under cicumstances the most tempting and favorable to his love of freedom, if he has any, surrounded by men aud scenes bcckoning him on to vengence, to liberty and dominion, with the power of life and death over his master in his hands, and the world open before him, with the manacle and chain, which was never forged or welded exccpt in the heated furnace of a riotous and prurient imagination, sticken from his body, turns eagerly aud fondly to the condition assigned him by the laws notv«aerely of Virginia, not merely of legislatures and law-makers, but. by the law of his being, by the law which governs his relation to the white man wherever the contact exists, by the law which made the hewers of wood and drawers of water under a government formed by God himself, and which, since the world began down to the present time, has made the inferior subordinate to the superior whenever and wherever two unequal races have been brought together.— Let this fact go forth to the country.— Let it be fully understood by those men and women who languish aud sigh over the condition of your institutions that their sympathy is repudiated, and that they themselver arc despised by both races in the South. This, too, Virginia has proven.

Is there anything left to be done by your verdict in peremptorily taking the life of the prisoner, and offering it a sacrifice to heal the wrongs of your State? I humbly conceive that Virginia in no respeot needs such a sacrifice. This much I think I have shown. ijS

And now let us turn to the prisoner. If Virginia, through you, can afford to be element, your inquiry will then be, is the object on whom you are asked to bestow your clemency worthy to receive it? I know the field on which I now enter is filled with preconceived ideas, but in the spirit of truth I shall explore it and by the truth of what I say I am willing that my unfortunate client may be judged by you, and moreover by that God in whose presence no hidden things exists,- and before whom, at no distant day you and I shall stand with him and see him and know him as he is, and not as we sec him and know him now, encompassed by the dread and awful calamities of the present hour.

WHO IS JOHN E. COOK? He has the

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raise

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against her to do veins has been offered against your peace,

are." But as 1 the same blood in the veins of those from

eyed babe upon her knee is to her now one

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CBAWFORDSVILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, INDIANA, NOVEMBER -20 1859. WHOLE NUMBER

fierce shock of battle and foreign invasion in behalf of the people of Virginia and court as I shall yet show, and a murderer comes, the Union. Bora of a parent stock, occupying the middle walks of life, and possessed of all those tender and domestic virtues which escape the contamination of those vices that dwell on the frozen peaks, or in the dark and deep caverns of society, be would not have been here had precept and example been remembered in the prodigal wanderings of bis short and checquered life. Poor deluded boy! wayward, misled child! An evil star presided over thy natal hour and smote it with gloom. The hour in which thy mother bore thee and blessed thee as her blue-

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of bitterness aa she stands near the bank'and a sister to idolize, and in which of the chill river of death and looks back on a name hitherto as unspotted and aa pure as the unstained snow. May God stand by and sustain her, and preserve the mothers of Virginia from the waves of sorrow that Mir nB over her*.

Not only the ancestry of John E. Cook,

but all with whom his life is now bound by the old head. We have seen somewhat up,-stand before the country as your friends of the history of the young man. Look and the friends of the Constitution as band- now for a moment at the history of the old ed down to us by the valor and wisdom of man. He did not go to Kansas as a peaceaWashington. I will not shrink from the I hie settler with his interests linked to the full and absolute recognition of my position. You and I, gentlemen of thq jury, can have no secrets in this case from one another. We will withdraw the curtains, and look each other fully in the face. A citizen of the State in which I live, who, by virtue of his brilliant and commanding intellect, and because of his sound and national principles, has been placed at an early period of his life in the highest position in the power of a State to give, is here beside me, and wears near his heart a sister's likeness to this boy. And there is not in the wide world, on the broad green face of the earth, a man, whose heart is not wholly abandoned to selfish depravity, who will not say that his presence here is commended by honor, love, duty, and fidelity to all that ennobles our poor, fallen race. Let poor, miserable, despised, loathed spurned, and abhorred miscreants cavil and revile at this proud act of painful duty. The truth and eternal impulses of tho human heart, the world over, constitute our appellate court

But the Governor of the State of Indiana needs neither vindication nor_ defense as a statesman of catholic opinions, nor a man fully appreciating the duties of domestic life. Rather do I allude to his presence here and his position, aR the agitating questions of the day, to show that something else besides ancestral inheritance or the teachings of family connections has given the fatal bias to the prisoner's mind, which led him away from the worship of his own household gods, and into the commuuion of idolators, aliens and enemies to the pure faith of an American citizen. And it seems to mc, iu view of the services which those who love this boy have rendered to their country, and in iew of their devotion to the true construction of the Constitution and the injunctions of our fathers, I might rehearse and quote to you with propriety a passage from the history of the latter years of the wisest king Israel ever had: "For it came to pass when Solomon was old that his wives turned away his heart after other gods and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God as was the heart of David, his father. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Ionians, and after the abomination of the Ammonites. "And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and went not fully after the Lord as did David, his father.

And the Lord was angry with Solomon because his heart was turned from the Lord God of Israel which had appeared unto him twice. rVnd had commanded him concerning this thing that he should not go after other gods but he kept not that which the Lord commanded.

Wherefore the Lord said unto Solomon, forasmuch as this is done unto thee, and thou has not kept my couvenant and my statutes which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, .ind will give it to thy servaut.

Notwithstanding, in thy days I will

not do it for David, thy father's sake." The king, who was forgiven, and spared not merely his life, but his kingdom also,

legitimate growth and prosperity of that ill-fated Territory. He went there in the

Commander-in-chief," and shows the proper distinction which should bo made between himself aud the men who, in an evil moment, obeyed hi? orders. Now turn to the contrast airain and behold the prisoner. life,

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Young aud new to the rough wavs

and his glory during his lifetime because of the loyalty of his father who had gone before him, was old and very wise and full of experience. The prisoner before you has done no more than to disobey your covenants and statutes, and pleads that it has been done in the early morning of life, his first offense, and under the baneful in. fluence of a school of philosophy which he dred, he gave, without knowing his desti-. all hands that he did not. once thought sincere and right, but which nation or purpose, a pledge of military obc- there is well defined. N he now here, once and forever, to you, and I dience to .John Brown, "Conimander'in-: under the cold, stern eye

before the world, renounces as false, per- chief. uicious and pestilential. Shall man be Gentlemen of the jury, there is one charmore intolerant than God? Shall you be actor which, in the ec- nomy of God's Provlcss merciful than lie, in whose presence ideucc, has been placed upon the earth, your only plea will be mercy! mercy! mer-j but perhaps has never been fully drawn, cy? Will you say you dare not recommend and is most difficult to draw. It is the mercy to John E. Cook, wheu divine ex- character of him who glides down amples and the appeals of your own con- stream of life in a trance, dreams as he scicnccs arc on your side? I will never floats along, and sees visions on cither never believe it until the appalling fact is shore .Realities exist in this world, 110 announced by you. doubt. Practical views are certainly the

But let us advance. I have Ppokcn of best. But that impalpable, airy, ami tinCook, his parentage and connections.-— substantial creations of the busy imaginaAgain comes the question, who is lie?— tions come now and then and lure the li

right himself to be heard before youjbutjged up from the depths of this misfortune inviting grove of pleasure, the first call of I will answer for him. Spruug from an can relieve and solace them. In an evil, some fanciful wood nymph, or to folio v. ancestry of loyal attachment to the Ainer-jhour—and inay it be forever accursed! jover the falls of ruin and death some ir^ican Government, lie inherits no blood of John E.Cook met John Brown 011 the andering stream who.-e beautiful surface tainted impurity. Hie grandfather an prostituted plains of Kansas. Ou that caught his eye To such a one right and officer of the Revolution by which your field of fanaticism, three years ago, this wrong are utter abstractions, and have no liberty as well as mine was achieved, and !fair and gentle youth was thrown into con- relation whatever to tlungs that cx.-r.— his grayhaired father, who lives to weep tact with the pirate aud robber of civil. Give to such a mind a promise, however over him, a soldier of the war of 1812, he warfare. To others whose sympathies he false, and from it will spring a castle in the brings no dishonored lineage into your presence. If the blood which flows in his

And now 1 proceed to answer it with re-1 dren of men to chase the W iil-o'-:he-ference to the transactions at Harper's isp'1 over the dangerous morass ot life, Ferry, aud with reference to the facts of is as true as that we have our allotted pi 1 licuit the ease. Let us spread broad and wide grimage of three-score years and ten.— before us the moving panorama of evil Who has not beheld the young man oi which readies its denouement at Harper's strict mural culture, impressed with high Ferry. (principles of right, and gifted with good

There are hearts arid feelings woven in 'intellect, start out upon the dusty and well the destiny of the prisoner which shall be beaten highway, which millions have trod relieved aud solaccd as far as truth drag-1 before him, only to turn aside at the tirst

not only of your citizcns, but of the young may he the same in its symii men who have already lost their lives in with the deductions of the mind

his bloody foray on your border. This is

already lost their lives in with the deductions of the mind. All de

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not pleasant to say, but it is the truth, and tho basis uti which thought rests, 1 as such, ought to bo and shall bo said,—j supports thu edifice of our conclusions.— You have seen John Brown, the leader, The enthusiast and visionary tak .s hi.-: Now look on John Cook, the follower. He stand-point, and fixes the premises of his is in evidence before you. Never did I conduct from caprice and the circum-tan-plead for a face that I was more willing tojees which have obtained the ascendency show. If evil is there, I have not seen it. over his mind. That such has been the If murder is there, I am to learn to mark character and such the conduct of the pri

Let us look at the meeting of these men. Place them side by side. Put the young facc By the old facc the young head

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has enlisted I will leave the task of trans-' air with proportions as true and just as the merit under the lea lership '1 J,rowi ::i the mitting John Brown as a martyr and hero most faultless architecture ever framed by first place, then you must adin:t that eve %. to posterity. In my eyes he stands the mathematical skill. Some lay the foutida- tiling else has follow* :u logical s"qti':ncc. chief of criminals, the thief of property tion of their actions on the roek and arc OL-edieri' stolen—horses aud slaves—from the citi-' never overthrown. Some build upon the false and zens of Missouri, a falsifier here in this! shifting sand, and fall

the eager and willing bandit, anxious to join a hoary leader bent on mischief—'instead of the outlaw in mintl at'd cliaraoter gloomily an:l fiercely pondering revenge against his fellow men for fancied or roa! injurios—we see from the evidence a kind though wayward heart, a cheerful, obliging,

language of one who has spoken for him though visionary mind. ith children since his confinement here, as the Moses everywhero he has been a favorite: and of the slaves' deliverance. He went there to fulfill a dream, which had tortured his brain for thirty years, that he was to be the leader of a sacred Exodus from bond-

since little children crept upon the knee of the Savior eighteen hundred years ago. they have boen tho most infallible judges ot a gentle and affectionate heart. Amia-

age. He went there for war and not for bility and sweetness of temper he has car peace. He went there to call around himiried with him through the world: and lie the waj'ward and unstable elements of a brings that trait now here before you to society in which the bonds of order, law. show that strong inducements and powerand religion were loosened, and the angry fttl incentives must have been brought to demon of discord was unchained. Storm bear in order to engage him in an cnterwas his clement by his own showing, prise so desperate as that for which his He courted the fierce tempest. He sowed 1 life is now so sadly imperilled. What motho wind that he might reap the whirlwind, tivc controlled him to this action? A He invoked the lightning and gloried in crime without a motive can not exist.— its devastation. Sixty summers and winters had passed over his head, and planted the seeds of spring and gathered the harvests of autumn in the fields of his experience. He'was tke hero, too, of battles there. If- laurels could be gained in such a fratricidal war as raged in Kansas, he

Was it a motive of blood-shed? llis character forbids the thought. Was it the motive of disloyalty to a Government cemented by the blood of his ancestor.-, and defended ly all who are near to him by tics of kindred? Not a syllable of proof warrants such a conclusion. Was his motive

had them on his brow. Ossawatomie was robbery and unholy tin? Other fields are given to him, and added to his name by the insanity of the crazy crew of the North as Napoleon conferred the names of bat-tle-fields on his favorite marshals. The action of Black Jack, too, gave him consideration, circumstance, and condition with philanthropists of bastard quality, carpet-night heroes in Boston, and servile followers of fanaticism throughout the country. His courage is now lauded to the skies by men who have none of it themselves. This virtue, I admit, he has —linked, however, with a thousand crimes. An iron will, with which to accomplish evil under the skillful guise of good. I also admit to be in his possession—rendering his influence over the young all the more despotic and dangerous.

more inviting to the land pirate but the thought of plunder never crossed a mind like his. One answer, and one alone, is to Fie given to all these questions, .lohil Hrown was the despotic leader, and .John Iv Cook was an ill-fated follower of an enterprise whose horror he now realizes and deplores. I defv the man, here or elsewhere, who has nver known John Fi. Cook, who has ever looked once fully inti his taee, and learned anything of his history, to lay his hand 011 his heart and say that he believes him guilty of the origin or the results of the outbreak at Harper's Ferry.

Here, then are the two characters whom you arc thinking to punish alike. Can it be that a jurv of Christian men will find no liserimination should be made between

Imagine, if you please, the bark 011 them? Are the tempter and the tempted which this young man at the bar and all the same in your eyes! .1-) the beguiled his hopes were freighted, laid alongside of'youth to die the same as the old offender the old weather-beaten and murderous who has pondered his crimes for thirty--: man-of-war whose character I have placed [years? Arc there no grades in your cstibeforc you. The one was stern and bent ination of guilt? Is each one, without roupon a fatal voyage. Grim visaged war, spoet to age or circumstance, to bd beaten civil commotion, pillage and death, dis-! with the same number of stripes? Such union and universal desolation thronged is nut the law, human or divine. We are the mind of JOHN BIIO\VN\ TO him all to be rewarded according to our works, law was nothing, the Union was 110th-! whether in punishment lor evil, or blessing, the peace aud walfare of the coun- ings for good that we have done. Vou are try were nothing, the lives of the here to do justice, and if justice requires citizens of Virginia were nothing. Though the same late to befall Cook that bel'allri a red sea of blood rolled before him. yet1 Hrown, I know nothing of her rules, and he lifted up his hands and cried forward. 1 do not care to learn. They are as widely Shall he now shrink from his prominence :asunder in all that constitutes :ruilt, as the and attempt to shrivel back to the grade of his recruits and subalterns? Shall he deny his bad pre-emincnce and say that, he did not incite the revolt which has involved his followers to ruin? Shall he stand before this court and before the country, and leny that he was the master-spirit, and gathered together the young men who followed him to the death in this mad expedition? No! his own hand signs himself

poles of the earth, and should be dealt. with aceordinirlv. It is in your power to 'do so, and by the principles by which you yourselves arc willing to be judged here--,, after, I implore vou lo do i'1

Come with me, however, gentlemen arid let us approach the sp it where the. tratjedv of the 17th of October 00c."*'

his unsandaled foot tender atxl unused to This order came Irom .John Uroun, the: the journey before him, a waif on the ocean,: "commander-in-chief," and was doubtless at the mercy of the current which might a matter of as much interest to others oh assail him, and unfortunately endowed with 1 prominent station a-i to him-ell. (,'ook that fearful gift which causes one to walk 1 simply obeyed—no niorr. There is not a as in a dream through all the vicissitudes particle of evidence that he tampered with,., of a lifetime severed and wandering front your .slaves during his temporary resi-. the sustaining and protecting ties of kin^dcnce. On the contrary, it is admitted on-: 11 is posit ion., fr .in ir ra 111

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pends, not uponthe reasoning, but nj

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and analyze the conduct of the prisoner: there. It, is not true that he came as a. citizen to vottr State and gained a home ill your midst to betray you. He was ordered to take his position at Harper's Ferryin advance of his party for the

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pose of ascertaining whether Col. Forbes, of New York, had divulged the. plan.—-

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From the tf'p uf tin mountain his chief looked down upon him, and held him as within a charmed circle. ottld Cook have lived a day had he tried to break the meshes which environed him.' 11'ippv the hour in which had made the the attempt even had he perished, but, in he fixing the measure of his L'nilt, the circuit!--taueos by which lie was surrounded IMM.-V 11 be weighed. At every step we sec him. hau ls of othcT •r ad visiiiL' anythinir. His couduet toward that elegantand excellent gentleman, Col. Washington,, i.- matter of sure regret, to his fri 'iid", and:.

as the instrument in tb men, and not a- originatin

th one act most dif•oncile with the the man. Jiut palliated bv the:

niself. Iti all oi.ir-rs

.-il-ktiown charart -r even there his olT-.-mn dictatorship which govenso 1 him. glance a high-toned gr-'i hospitality abused. This has bee aggravate his acknowledged ofl But the truth is, that w'.cn Cook ited Col. Wa-ihington's house and received front him various acts of kill-.':'?'-, tho thought that soon be was to beordcru1 back over that threshold in a /stile manner had never entered h's brain. he a :t was not Cook's but JJrown's. The mere soldier is never punish-- 1 ior iho outrages ot his commander. And when ym allow that tho pri-oncr's great error was his enlist

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illoW' fidelity upon a leader in rious cause are entitled to anire at h-ast, the evil wn from th-.ru. P»ut the ptiscertain weaj^ns hallowed bv i.'icr -d association.-) from the pov Col. Wa.-hington. \h! in this

that has. fl oner took great and se.s?i'-ri of he is once more consistent with the visionarv and dreamy east of his mind. Th act, wis not plunder, for he pledged their safe' retum to their owner, and has faithfully kept that pledge to the full extent of hiss', power. Put his wayward fancy was caught with the idea that a spell of ciichan-'ment hung around them, and that, like the relics-

oner, without one spark of malignity ot ot a samt, they would bless and pru.-jper heart, or a single impulse of depravity, any cause in which they wero invoked.—

the lines of the murderer anew, If the assassin is in that young face, then com- __ mend me to the look of an assassin. No, all the evidenoe iu this case clearly cstab-, The sword of Frederick the Great and ile gentlemen, it is a face for a mother to love, lishes. pistols ot I^fayette linked t-o the name an I 1- -Hch the Some general Ideas gilded over by the faintly of ashington! ith what a chai strike the poetic enthusiast

natural goodness of his heart pleads alluring title of freedom were held out to 'such associations would trumpet-tongned'against" the deep damna-1 him by jjrown and formed the basis of temperament uf a young enthusiast edition that estranged him from home and its what seemed to him duty and honor. If: barked in au enterprise presenting to his.nrincinlee. ever man chareed with crime was lifted up per-verted imagination the incentives ot principles.

ever man charged with crime was lifted up ptri by idence fif l^is case above the dauger ar,d gh'and if a new order ignoble traits of the ordinary felon, tho things was to be inaugurated, ^aad sivrnt. prisoner is thus distinguished. Jp-tcrd of' a-«*d revolution *?crc to shako the countrv