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[338] Union, whom Virginia thus disgraced in the eyes of the world, the brave old man was too feeble to stand. “He sat up in his bed when the Jury entered,” writes another and more vindictive Virginia journalist, “and, after listening to the rendition of the verdict, lay down very composedly, without saying a word.” The writer adds, intending thereby to eulogize the Virginians, “There was no demonstration of any kind whatever.” Thus thoroughly does Slavery corrupt the heart, that the spectacle of an heroic old man, feeble from the loss of blood poured out in behalf of God's despised poor, unable to stand unsupported on his feet, and yet condemned to die on the scaffold, shocked no one Southern conscience — excited “no demonstration of any kind whatever.”
Thayer and Eldridge, 1860.
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