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plumes itself on its moral character, as well as physical, and on its loyal and its devotion to truth and right, we ask you to discard any thing else, and render your verdict as you are sworn to do. . . . Justice is the centre upon which Deity sits.
There is another column which represents its mercy.
You have nothing to do with that.
Mr. Hunter closed his speech at half past 1 o'clock.
During most of the arguments to-day, Brown lay on his back, with his eyes closed.
Mr. Chilton asked the Court to instruct the Jury, if they believed the prisoner was not a citizen of Virginia, but of another State, they cannot convict on a count of treason.
The Court declined, saying the Constitution did not give rights and immunities alone, but also imposed responsibilities.
Mr. Chilton asked another instruction, that the Jury must be satisfied that the place where the offence was committed was within the boundaries of Jefferson County, which the Court granted.
The Jury then retired to consider their verdict, and the
Court adjourned for half an hour.
The verdict.
Thus far, for our record of the trial, we have been obliged to rely on pro-slavery authority.
It was not till the following day that a truthful and impartial reporter succeeded in eluding the cowardly and inquisitorial vigilance of the Virginians, who, in their anxiety to prevent a fair trial or a true report, excluded all Northern men from their City — as had been done, a thousand times before, in each of the despotic Commonwealths south of the
Potomac, by men who are ever, and in various ways, committing daily violence on the
Federal Constitution, and accusing, in the same breath, the
Northern men who submit to these infractions as guilty of assailing the rights of the
South.
Thus far, then, they have been convicted out of their
