Category: AMERICAN STATE TRIALS VOLUME 10, NINETEEN EIGHTEEN
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724X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.while in Cape Lopes, we badmore prisoners than men of ourown; there was then some a]pearance of s rising amongprisoners; never at any otheree Taile at Cape Lopex, CaptainTrotter and some of our menwere taken prisoners by…
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PEDRO GIBERT AND OTHERS.725Mr. Child. We do not know gentle or simple here.Juver Story.If there is aught exceptionable in my usage ofthe word gentleman, I will use the word man, althongh I considerthat all present are entitled to the former…
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726 X¥. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Mr. Dunlap. I searcely knowwhat Mr. Child means by re-etricting the prisoners. I be-lieve the other counsel (Mr,Hilliard) would not say what Mr.Child had said.Mr. Hilliard was perfectly sat-isfied with the conduct of theDistriet Attorney on…
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PEDRO GIBERT AND OTHERS.727jean, Went on shore at Naz-areth by Captain Trotter’s or-ders, to seareh for the hiddenmoney. Two of the prisonersguided us, Found no money.Prisoners were secompanied byan English officer, to whom theywere obedient; they showed himthe place where…
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728 XY. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.the Panda; did not go after themthemselves but cent the negroes‘who were standing armed on thebeach; there was 4 great numberof negroes; don know howmany; they extended all slongthe beach.“Captain Trotter went to theking two or…
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PEDRO GIBERT AND OTHERS.729share of the bread. The Englishcrew were not called up to taketheir share of any money. Cap-tain Gibert went on shore whenthe Pands reached Nazareth, andeame again in two months; hewae sick on board five days;when he…
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730X,. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Capt. Jeremiah Briggs. Havecommanded 9 merehantman 32years. - Voyages have been geu-erally to the East Indies, Haveheen to Bio, and other SouthAmerican ports. It is enstomary,when hailed, if from Salem, toanswer from Boston, a8 Boatonis a port…
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PEDRO GIBERT AND OTHERS.731°dred and twenty miles per day.Their average rate of sailing isone hundred and twenty miles insummer, and oxe hundred andsixty or one hundred and seventyin winter. The passage fromNew York to Liverpool is made,during the summer, in…
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732 'X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.with a stock of the best provis on the coast, owing to the bestfons, such 25 beef, pork, ete.; of the weather.take but little bread, as it spoilsMr. Dunlap asked the witness if be had not…
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PEDRO GIBERT AND OTHERS. 733°six, or six and a half. A elipperwill, on an average, sail one-thirdfaster than a merchant vessel.The Panda and Mexican, wouldnot be likely to meet, because theschooner ought to be much aheadof the brig. Am well…
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134 XY. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.think from what I see of theMexican’s track, that she was adull sailer, and there would befull a difference of one-third, be-tween her and a Baltimore clip-per, in smooth water. The meet-ing’ of the Panda and…
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PEDRO GIBERT AND OTHERS.735#0 engaged was not considered inHavana to disparage any man’scharacter.Isaac A. Coolidge, the underkeeper of the jail, was asked toidentify the colored men, Ridglyand Lewis, of the Mexican, a8the persons who called at the jailand stated that…
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736 ¥. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.ceived him, by telling him thathe would not be kept a prisoner,while, in reality, he was now asmuch @ prisoner as the others.”T think, when he said this, hedid not refer to any individualsin thia country,…
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PEDRO GIBERT AND OTHERS.737it's my turn now.” He wes in astate of excitement,Ebenezer Prescott. Am an of-ficer of the court; Ridgly wes in-toxicated at the time, Saw Mr.Sumner and others talking tohim a short time after, and notthinking it proper…
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738 &. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.most unclouded state of the understanding, the most un-wearied attention to facts, and the strictest self-examination,lest, through rashness, inadvertency, or prejudice, we passsentence upon the innocent, and commit a judicial murder.If these considerations are of importance…
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PEDRO GIBERT AND OTHERS. 739to the countenance and eye of the prisoner a new expression.‘We see guilt written in every lineament of his visage, andtranslate the look of conscious innocence into raffian hardi-hood, or callous indifference.These men, gentlemen, are accused…
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740 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.Consider the cireumstances under which the prisoners havecome to this country. They have been brought here with asort of eclat, much to their disadvantage. A vast apparatosseems to have been put in motion against them. Hngland,…
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PEDRO GIBERT AND OTHERS. T4if it was sound. And we would have failed in our dutyhad we not done this. Had we not acted thus, and had theprisoners been convicted, that conviction would have been athing we never could have…
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742 X, AMERICAN 8TATE TRIALS.been granted to Otis only for the purpose of affording timeto the Executive to receive information from the court.Mr, Hilierd. Some of the prisoners had been identified bythe crew of the Mexican. Now it was well…
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PEDRO GIBERT AND OTHERS. 143fact that Perez had since stated that he (cook) was not thereat all; to the little weight to be attached to the teaimony ofPerez ; to the many inconsistencies in Pe-rTez’s evidence, and that of other…
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744 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.victims, or that the sword of the law should fall till it isclogged with massacre. Antonio Ferrer is plainly but a ser-vant. He is set down as a free black in the ship’s papers, butthat ia…
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PEDRO GIBERT AND OTHERS. 745the ocean of life. There are in his bosom the same social sym-pathies that animate our own. Hoe has nerves to feel pain,and a heart to throb with human affections, even as ‘you have.His life, to…
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746 X. ‘AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.present. The time will come when this world will be as noth-ing to you: when its opinions, its struggles, and ite varied in-teresta will hold no more place in your thoughts than lastyear’s clouds; when memory…
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PEDRO GIBEET AND OTHERS. 147prosecution. Yes! the English officer by whom they werecaptured was once indebted for his life to the leader of thesemen. Mr. Quentin on the stand had stated he had no doubtthat when Capt. Trotter was in…
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748 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.to me that the whole aim of Perez was to give a deeper hue tothe crime with which these prisoners were charged. The ear-rying of knives by Spanish sailora could excite no suspicionin the breast of…
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PEDRO GIBERT AND OTHERS. 149will be convinced, on a moment’s reflection that this could nothave been the case.T may have trespassed in my cross-examination, gentlemen,upon your patience; I may have been more minute in minorparticulars than prudence would seem to…
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760 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.the probability of his having perjured himself by the sup-pression of important truths.I will now eall your attention to another class of this wit-ness’ testimony. He has stated that the carpenter put fireto a bag of…
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PEDRO GIBERT AND OTHERS. 751the other witness, Quentin, affirmed positively that theguns were iron. Perez also said there was but one man andthe third mate on board the Panda who spoke English, andthat the former of the two did not…
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752 X,. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.bett’a Parliamentary Tables,’’ by which he said he couldshow what kind of men had found their way into the Britishnavy. He could show the names of upwards of 3000 lieuten-ants, many of them veterans in the…
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PEDRO GIBERT AND OTHERS. 753is false, as all travelers positively assert, that Spanish dol-lars are current all over Africa. Their value, doubtless, dif-fers in different parts of the coast, as the inhabitants may befound more or less in want of…