896 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

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will decide the second question. Whether your hearts are at
ease—whether your passions are untouched—- whether your
feelings are unaffected, now that you have fully heard the
charge, you best know. It remains only now for me, gentle-
men of the jury, to call upon you, in the name of your coun-
try, whose interest you are to defend whilst you protect the
Tighta of the individual. J call upon you in the name of your
God, a portion of whose justice you are about to administer,
and on your oaths, uninfluenced by favor, partiality, preja-
dice or affection, to discharge your duty to your God, to your
country, and to yourselves.

I have told you, and again repeat, that it is the pecaliar
privilege of every citizen of this happy country to place eonfl-
dence in whom he pleases, and at the constitutional periods
of making new elections, to withdraw his confidence from a
former representative, and place his trust in another; and
even expatiate on the virtues of the new candidate; but this
does not warrant him to vilify, revile, and defame another in-
dividual, who is a candidate. Cannot a good thing be said of
one individual without saying black and damnable things of
another? Is it necessary, in order to recommend one man to
the presidential office, that you should charge another with
bringing on his country war and beggary? The whole forms
a perfect chain of malice, falsehood, and slander.

Thus have I made, gentlemen of the jury, a calm, uncolored
statement of facts. I have not highly varnished, nor have
said anything bot what ia consistent with truth, What im-
pression the evidence or charge may have made on your
minds, whether your feelings be affected, you and each of
you know best. It remains only now for me, gentlemen of
the jury, to remind you, that you are not only to protect the
interests of your country, but to defend the rights of that
individual; and in the name of God and of your country, I
eall upon you to dischange your duty to both and to your-
selves.

Mr. Hay called Colonel John Taylor (of Caroline county)
as 4 witness, and he waa eworn.