that you should do, gentlemen, is this: After the
arguments are finished, when the silvery-tongued orator is done and
you retire to deliberate upon and consider your verdict, sit down
and wait until your blood is cool, sit down and wait until calm
judgment and cool discretion take the place of frenzied emotion,
before you act, and by your action commit a deed which shall haunt
you to your grave.

"Only a century ago Ireland blossomed as a rose. From the center to
the circumference of that beautiful isle the smoke-stacks opened
their black mouths toward the sky. Throughout the length and
breadth of the land the fires glittered and gleamed upon the forges
of industry, and everywhere the buzz of the spindle and the clatter
of the loom were heard. Among the illustrious names which history
gives us we find among them some of the grandest statesmen, some of
the most eloquent orators and most learned scholars that ever lived
upon this earth, either in times modern or ancient, were the sons
of the Emerald Isle. But how have the mighty fallen! Armed forces
have invaded the territory; the jury and the courts have been
superseded by the drumhead court-martial; coats of tar and feathers
have been resorted to; men, women and little children have been
publicly whipped; the parliament has been stolen away; the
smoke-stacks are cold and crumbled, and fires are out on the forges
and in the furnaces, and the spindle and the loom are still."

Counsel read selections from the address of John F. Beggs to
President Harrison at Indianapolis at the time he visited that city
with the Irish national committee, and also President Harrison's
reply to the address of the organization, and then said: "Do you
question for a moment the loyalty of the Irish people in America,
and would you condemn them for their loyalty to their mother
country? It is not charged in this case that the Clan-na-Gaels are
dynamiters. If it had been my brother Hynes is the only one
connected with this case who could give you reliable and full
information on that subject, because he is a dynamiter. It may
possibly have been that some men would think that by throwing a
little dynamite into England it would set Englishmen thinking
favorably of the project of that old statesman, Gladstone, to give
to