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October 31st (search for this): chapter 3.50
Chapter 6: lawyers' pleas.
The Court reassembled early on Monday morning, October 31.
John Brown was brought from prison between files of armed men, as the practice was, and laid down on his bed within the bar. He looked better, we are told, than on the previous day; his health is evidently improving, and he seemed to be at the most perfect ease of mind.
The Court room and every approach to it were densely crowded.
From the opening of the Court until the afternoon session, the counsel for the defence--Messrs. Griswold and Chilton--and for the prosecution--Messrs. Hunter and Harding--occupied the attention of the jury in arguing for and against the prisoner.
I do not intend to pollute my pages with any sketch of the lawyers' pleas.
They were able, without doubt, and erudite, and ingenious; but they were founded, nevertheless, on an atrocious assumption.
For they assumed (as all lawyers' speeches must) that the statutes of the State were just; and, therefore, if the prisone