Your search returned 560 results in 77 document sections:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 2: Judicial alacrity. (search)
s, and what their answers are. If that could be allowed me, I should be very much obliged. Mr. Hunter said that the request was rather premature. The arraignment should be made, and this questiong held upright by two bailiffs. As soon as the prisoners had responded to the arraignment, Mr. Hunter rose and said, The State elects to try John Brown first. A discussion and decision, fit accoor three days. It seems to be but a reasonable request, and I hope the Court will grant it. Mr. Hunter said, he did not think it the duty of the prosecutor for the Commonwealth, or for one occupyined and jeopardized, as they supposed, by enemies. Mr. Harding concurred in the objection of Mr. Hunter, on the ground of danger in delay, and also because Brown was the leader of the insurrection, the reputation of the State, but that might tend to exculpate the defendant — for this is what Mr. Hunter's last orphic sentence meant; because there might be danger, if the request was granted, of a
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 3: State evidence. (search)
y, should arrive in Charlestown, the Court again refused to grant the request, and ordered the examination to proceed! Mr. Hunter, in opposing the request, involuntarily showed that he regarded the trial as a form only,--a mockery of justice, -and eindictment charged Insurrection, Treason, and Murder. John Brown pleaded Not Guilty. Arguments of the counsel. Mr, Hunter then stated the facts that he designed to prove by the evidence for the prosecution, and reviewed the laws relating to tholence was offered to them. These facts must be taken into consideration, and have their due weight with the jury. Mr. Hunter replied. The State law of treason, he argued, was more full than that of the Federal Constitution. It includes wit not only the civil authorities of State, but our own military; he is doubly, trebly, and quadruply guilty of treason. Mr. Hunter proceeded again to the question of jurisdiction over the Armory grounds, and examined the authority, cited on the other
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 4: State evidence closed. (search)
before his sufferings compelled him to retire. Mr. Hunter then laid before the Jury the printed Constitutiol that trouble. I am ready to face the music. Mr. Hunter. I prefer to prove them by Mr. Campbell. John rently about twenty-two years of age, the son of Andrew Hunter, Esq., who conducts the prosecution, was examineunless Brown had a knowledge of that shooting. Mr. Hunter said there was a deal of testimony about Brown's circumstances? Shall I mention the names? Mr. Andrew Hunter. Every bit of it, Henry; state all you saw. here belonging to this sharp-shooting band. Mr. Andrew Hunter. Will you allow him to state, before proceedinin which Mr. Beckham's life had been taken. Mr. Andrew Hunter. Is that all, gentlemen? Mr. Botts. Yes, sir. Mr. Andrew Hunter. (To the witness.) Stand aside. This sworn statement of a cold-blooded murder, by onwing morning. But it is due to the reputation of Mr. Hunter to say, that he resolutely resisted this action.
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 5: the defence. (search)
prisoner frequently complained that his men were shot down while carrying a flag of truce. Mr. Hunter again tried to arrest the production of evidence so disgraceful to the Virginians; but even th confine ourselves to a single one of them. He hoped that no such motion would be granted. Mr. Hunter, in reply to the argument of Mr. Chilton, said that the discretion of the Court compelling the too much for the Court to adjourn after the opening argument on behalf of the prosecution. Mr. Hunter said that he would cheerfully bear testimony to the unexceptionable manner in which the counse speeches by himself and Mr. Griswold, not occupying more than two hours and a half in all. Mr. Hunter again entered an earnest protest against delay. The Court then ordered the prosecution to proceed. Mr. Hunter spoke forty minutes, and ridiculed as absurd the expectation of the prisoner — that he should have been dealt with by the rules of honorable warfare! The Court then adjourned ti
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 6: lawyers' pleas. (search)
ely crowded. From the opening of the Court until the afternoon session, the counsel for the defence--Messrs. Griswold and Chilton--and for the prosecution--Messrs. Hunter and Harding--occupied the attention of the jury in arguing for and against the prisoner. I do not intend to pollute my pages with any sketch of the lawyers' in it. Unless the majesty of the law were supported, dissolution of the Union must soon ensue, with all the evils that must necessarily follow in its train. Mr. Hunter was true to his barbaric instincts to the last; eulogizing Wise to begin with, filling up his speech with the infamous maxims of iniquitous laws, and closing it 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
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 7: condemned to die. (search)
Chapter 7: condemned to die. The first of November was devoted to the trial of Coppoc, which was continued on the following day. No witnesses were called for the defence. Mr. Harding for the State, and Messrs. Hoyt and Griswold for the defence, followed by Mr. Hunter, who closed for the prosecution, addressed the jury, who presently retired to appear to consider their pre-determined verdict — of guilty. During the absence of the Jury in Coppoc's case, says an eye witness, in order that no time should be wasted, John Brown was brought in from jail to be sentenced. He walked with considerable difficulty, and every movement appeared to be attended with pain, although his features gave no expression of it. It was late, and the gaslights gave an almost deathly pallor to his face. He seated himself near his counsel, and, after once resting his head upon his right hand, remained entirely motionless, and for a time appeared unconscious of all that passed around-especially unconscio
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 8: the conquering pen. (search)
hopes of entering on a better state of existence, in a few hours, through infinite grace in ( Christ Jesus, my Lord. Remember the poor that cry, and them that are in bonds as bound with them. Your friend as ever, John Brown. Letter to Mr. Hunter. Charlestown, Va., Nov. 22, 1859. Andrew Hunter, Esq., Present. Dear Sir: I have just had my attention called to a seeming confliction between the statement I at first made to Governor Wise and that which I made at the time I received Andrew Hunter, Esq., Present. Dear Sir: I have just had my attention called to a seeming confliction between the statement I at first made to Governor Wise and that which I made at the time I received my sentence, regarding my intentions respecting the slaves we took about the Ferry. There need be no such confliction, and a few words of explanation will, I think, be quite sufficient. I had given Governor Wise a full and particular account of that; and when called in court to say whether I had any thing further to urge, I was taken wholly by surprise, as I did not expect my sentence before the others. In the hurry of the moment, I forgot much that I had before intended to say, and did not c
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 10: husband and wife. (search)
n which he was goaded on by the Border devils until he was mad, and the chain had worn through his flesh to the bone; and this, too, she desired. Captain Brown said he had himself asked that it be given to his family, and had been refused. The conversation then turned upon matters of business, which Brown desired to have arranged after his death. He gave his wife all the letters and papers which were needed for this purpose, and read to her the will which had been drawn up for him by Mr. Hunter, carefully explaining every portion of it. Speaking of the parties to whom sums are directed to be paid, he said: Dear Mary, if you can find these, pay them personally; but do not pay any one who may present himself as their attorneys, for if it gets into the hands of attorneys, we do not know what will become of it. Subsequently he requested his wife to make a denial of the statement that had gained publicity, that he had said in his interview with Governor Wise that he had been act
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 11: the victory over death. (search)
tzers, with cannon pointed at scaffold; E, Richmond Company; F, Winchester Continentals: G, Fauquier Cavalry; H, Company A of Richmond ; I, Alexandria Riflemen; K, Riflemen, and part of Capt. Ashby's Cavalry, to keep order in the small crowd. J, Hunter's Guard, at entrance gate, supported by a piece of Artillery under command of Lieut. Green of the United States Marines; L, Woods scoured by the Wood's Rifles, to have the first brush at the enemy, if approaching from Harper's Ferry; M M M, Pickeideon, as the State had proved itself to be of his sword of the Lord, by preventing the people from listening to his last words. They finally opened ranks to let him pass out; when, with the assistance of two men, he descended from the wagon. Mr. Hunter and Mayor Green were standing near by. Gentlemen, good by, the old man said in an unfaltering tone; and then, with firm step and erect form, he calmly walked past jailers, sheriff, and officers, and mounted the scaffold steps. He was the first
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 19: John Brown.—1859. (search)
eny everything but what I have all Lib. 29.175. along admitted—the design on my part to free the slaves. I intended, certainly, to have made a clean thing of that matter, as I did last winter, when I went into Missouri, and there took slaves without the snapping of a gun on either side, moved them through the country, and finally left them in Canada. I designed to have done the same thing again, I. e., to free the slaves—not to run them off. See Brown's explanation to the prosecutor, Andrew Hunter, Nov. 22, 1859 (Sanborn's Life, p. 584). on a larger scale. That was all I intended. I never did intend murder, or treason, or the destruction of property, or to excite or incite slaves to rebellion, or to make insurrection. I have another objection: and that is, it is unjust that I should suffer such a penalty. Had I interfered in the manner which I admit, and which I admit has been fairly proved (for I admire the truthfulness and candor of the greater portion of the witnesses wh
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8