their freedom--hold up their magnanimous doings to the world
for approval and praise--I say those people are the veriest
slaves in existence to allow laws to exist for a moment which
deprive a man of liberty.

The LORD CHIEF BARON--It is impossible for a Court
administering the law, to allow you to speak in such terms
against such law.

[Illustration: Augustine E. Costello.]

COSTELLO--I speak under correction, my lord. You must, if you
please, be assured that I do not attribute any wrong to
your lordships--far be it from me; I acknowledge and again
reiterate that. So far as the law is concerned, I have had a
dose that has almost killed me; but if there was a little--a
very little--justice mixed in that law, I would not be now
addressing your lordships. Of the law I have had sufficient,
but I have come to the conclusion that justice is not to be
found inside a British courthouse. My lords, I complain, and
grievously, of what my friend Colonel Warren and my friend
General Halpin complained of--of being tried in this Court
as a British subject; and I think your lordships will not
reprimand me much for that expression. I left the shores of my
native land--Ireland is the land of my birth, and I am proud
to own it. I am proud to say that I am an Irishman, but I am
also proud and happy to state that I am an adopted citizen of
the United States; and while true to the land of my birth, I
can never be false to the land of my adoption. That is not
an original phrase, but it expresses the idea which I mean to
convey. Now, my lords, my learned and very able counsel, who
have conducted my case with the greatest ability and zeal, and
of whom I cannot speak in terms of sufficient praise, demanded
for me a jury half alien. I was refased it. I was born in
this country, and I was, while breath remained in my body, a
British subject. In God's name--if I may mention His holy name
without sufficient reasons--what affection should I have for
England? You cannot stamp out the instincts that are in the
breast of man--man will be man to the end of time--the very
worm you tread upon will turn upon your feet. If I remained in
this country till I descended to the grave, I would remain in
obscurity and poverty. I left Ireland, not because I disliked
the country--I love Ireland as I lovs myse