[1023] A favorite order from the bench for the execution of the condemned was that the culprit should be drawn prostrate at the tails of horses through the jagged and filthy streets from the court-room to the place of execution; the legs, arms, nose, and ears there cut off; the intestines ripped out and burned "before the eyes" of the victim; and finally the head cut off. Details still more shocking were frequently added. See sentences upon William, Lord Russell, July 14, 1683 (State Trials Richard II to George I, vol. 3, 660); upon Algernon Sidney, November 26, 1683 (ib. 738); upon William, Viscount Stafford, December 7, 1680 (ib. 214); upon William Stayley, November 21, 1678 (ib. vol. 2, 656); and upon other men condemned for treason.
[1024] Even in Philadelphia, after the British evacuation of that place during the Revolution, hundreds were tried for treason. Lewis alone, although then a very young lawyer, defended one hundred and fifty-two persons. (See Chase Trial, 21.)
[1025] "In the English law ... the rule ... had been that enough heads must be cut off to glut the vengeance of the Crown." (Isaac N. Phillips, in Dillon, ii, 394.)
[1026] Iredell's charge to the Georgia Grand Jury, April 26, 1792, Iredell: McRee, ii, 349; and see Iredell's charge to the Massachusetts Grand Jury, Oct. 12, 1792, ib. 365.
[1027] See his concurrence with Judge Peters's charge in the Fries case, Wharton: State Trials, 587-91; and Peters's opinion, ib. 586; also see Chase's charge at the second trial of Fries, ib. 636.
[1028] "The President's popularity is unbounded, and his will is that of the nation.... Such is our present infatuation." (Nicholson to Randolph, April 12, 1807, Adams: Randolph, 216-17.)
[1029] Hildreth, iv, 692.
[1030] Parton: Burr, 458.
[1031] Parton: Jackson, i, 333.
[1032] Jackson to Anderson, June 16, 1807, ib. 334.