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Knl of hit nffcction*, nor corrupted the %;oevo|cnt impulses of hi* heart. Those chOrdt of »yinpothy, ..which were always ifwhirrinouy with tho nobler feelmgnofojr nature, still retain their elasticity in hi* breu*t, and respond, as they were wont to do, to the touch of the unfortunate. We were fed to these rcmnrktrby having witnessed. on 'I'uendty evening last, an net of moral grandeur and benevolence on hi* part, that ha* raised him, in our estimation, to an elevation from which lliu cn. price of man cannot css! him down.Sometime during tlio lust Hummer, a dreadful murder wus committed upon the body of a white man in this District.— : Sevcrul negroes attached to the pfanta-turn of Col. Richard Singleton, wore ana-pec ted of having committed it, and n number of them were arrested, confined and examined, from timo to time, without eliciting any r.luo to tho bloody deed ; and nil were finally discharged but four, (who belonged to a tru*l estate under the caro of Col. Singleton.) Efforts were made to induce a confession, from some of thcso individuals, and after sumo time a negro named Joe, pretended to give o circumstantial detail of tho horrible deed, affixing the murder to two other*, named Paul mid Bacchus. On Joe** evidence, before n Court of Free-holders, they wern condemned to bo hung. Alter sentence, however, testimony was discovered that went to prove an ulibi ; and Joe's eon-duct, moreover, induced tho suspicion that ho h id test: fid falsely. On these grounds an application wn* made to Judge Earl for a new trial, and William C. Pruston stepped forward, without fee or rcuard, to advocate the claims of these poor unfort un at o negroes to a new trial ! And he did most eloquently advocate them, in a speech of about half an hour's length, while a large concourse of citizens, with eager attention and breathless silence, listened to the well known tones of his mellow voice, and gratefully recognized him a* the same philanthropic individual, who, in day* of yore, had plead many a poor man's cause, at the same bar, without. fee or reward /i “ Far more true joy Marcdlua exiled fee!*.Than Csaar with a Senate at his heels.Columbia C/iroitT
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Farmers Gazette and Cheraw Advertiser
Cheraw, South Carolina, US
Tue, Jan 17, 1843
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