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102 X. AMERICAN 8TATE TRIALS.

without a cause, and with a frantic look scattering 2 fright-
ened multitude. You see him passing, after night, a sentinel
whose duty compelled him to shoot, You see him the victim
of insane impulses, which ho has no power to resist. The
proseeution is hard pressed by these facta. Mr. Gale en-
deavora to explain the affair of the revolver by holding up
‘Worrell as ao strict a disciplinarian that, for mere loud talk in
open day he would kill soldiers and citizens! The argument is a
suicide in logic, for such disciplinerian would not, after night,
violate at peril of his life, a discipline essential to the safety
of every military post.

Up to the hour of his desertion, in all his life, who ever
connected the name of Worrell with an act or sentiment of
dishonor? His life, as I said, is before you and however you
decide this cause, the fact is overwhelmingly established that
a more honorable, upright, honest young man than Edward
Worrell never enlisted under the banner of his country. ‘‘The
past at least is secure.’? The gallows cannot rob him of his
eharacter for gentlenesa; for high and honorable aspirations;
for a scorn of all meanness; for @ refined manliness; for in-
vincible honesty. And now I ask you, jurors, when before
im your experience, in the larger experience of humanity,
did it ever occur that such a man, on a sudden, in a moment,
becomes a horsethief and murderert I put the question to
your consciences. I put it to the prosecution and especially
to him (Mr, Bay) who is to follow me. The annals of crime
do not furnish a case. I defy one well authenticated case
of sach sudden voluntary revolution of the moral nature of
aman. Insanity has presented this perversion a thousand
times,

“YT took an interest in Worrell,’ said the witness for the
State—; ‘‘and told him I was glad to witness his prometion.’”

‘Who did not take an interest in Worrell wherever he has
been? Was he not always an object of interest and regard?
It is not simply that from the camp and from civil life, no
whisper of imputation can be brought against him; but the
evidence is positive and affirmative and universal—that for
ali the qualities of a man which recommend him to the heart,

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