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eat stood on their temples. This satisfied the witnesses of the defendants' guilt, and they now state the circumstances as being indubitable proof. This argument manifests, in those

gnation at this unjust accusation? If they saw an attempt to produce false evidence against them, would they not be angry? And, seeing the production of

ght know to be false and fraudulent brought against him; when his house was filled, from the garret to the cellar, by those whom he might esteem as false witnesses; and when he himself

rred tending in any degree to excite suspicion against them. When arrested, and when all this array of evidence was brought against them, and when they could hope in nothing but their innocence, immunity was offered them again if they would confess. They were pressed, and urged, and allured, by every motive which could be set before them, to

circumstance of suspicion; if from that moment until their arrest nothing appeared against them; if they neither passed money, nor are found to have had money; if the manner of the search of their house, and the circumstances attending it, excite strong s

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ell as mine, was achieved, and his gray-haired father, who lived to weep over him, a soldier of the war of 1812, he brings no dishonored lineage into your presence. Born of a parent stock occupying the middle walks of life, and possessed of all those tender and do

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rostituted plains of Kansas. On that field of fanaticism, three years ago, this fair

here, I am to learn to mark the lines of the murderer anew. If the assassin is in that young face, then commend me to the look of an assassin. No, gentlemen, it is a face for a moth

defy the man, here or elsewhere, who has ever known John E. Cook, who has ever looked once fully into his face, and learned anything of hi

ween them? Are the tempter and the tempted the same in your eyes? Is the beguiled youth to die the same as the old offender who has pondered his crimes for thi

if justice requires the same fate to befall Cook that befalls Brown, I know nothing of her rules, and do not care to learn. They are as widely asunder, in all that constitutes guilt, as the p

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h gone through the evidence in behalf of the prisoners. The witnesses have

the community for your own protection and safety: by the same mode of trial are your own rights to receive a determination; a

the little truth to be attained in partial hearings? In the present case, how great was the prepossession against us? And I appeal to you, gentlemen, what cause there now is to alter our sentiments? Will any

sses are directly perjured: witnesses, who have no apparent interest to falsify,-witnesses who have given their testimony with candor and accuracy,-witne

ider them as testified; weigh the credibility of the witnesses- balance their testimony-compare the several parts of it-see the amount of it; and then, according to your oath, "make true deliverance according to your evidence." That is, gentlemen, having settled the facts,