SYMPATHY AND REGRET AS EXPRESSED BY SEVERAL JURORS.
After the sentence was announced, Dr. Bevell and others, who formed a part of the jury, openly declared that if they had been aware of the fact that the judge had the power to imprison, suffering as they were, never would they have consented to a verdict in favor of the prosecution. Another distinguished juror, W. L. Young, on the case, on seeing the defendant coming from the court-room, met him with all the warmth of genuine friendship and the most sincere of emotion, sympathy, and contrition, which will be best understood in his own words: “My dear sir, my feelings are deeply wounded, and I feel as though I have committed a very great wrong in giving consent against my better judgment—a wrong even to fine you so much as one single cent, and were the case to be done over again, with the light now before me, I would most assuredly act quite differently, for I now see my great error, though my greatest grief is that this lesson was taught too late to be of any service to you in your present humiliated situation.” The reply was suitable, and in these words: “Permit me, sir, to acknowledge your truly sympathetic manifestations with all the welcomeness and gratitude which are possible to be expressed; and also to further express to you that notwithstanding this heavy stroke of adversity, I will endeavor to bear the same with philosophical fortitude, under the strengthening conviction that this is the most memorable epoch of life, and in spite of malignant persecution, justice will afterwards be done, and time will bring forth its appropriate reward.”