ers slandering each other, and they
will slander each other for all eternity. Now what is the effect of
this? On the one side they say your wing is sending out comrades to
British prisons, betraying them to the British government, and they
are prosecuting them, while they say the patriots whom they laud to
the sky are dynamiters who sent dynamite to England to wreck
property and lives. Don't you see that stand out plainly and
distinctly? And not alone has it permeated the prosecution, but if
you believe what Lyman said about it, one of the dynamiters sits
right here at the prosecution table. Do you suppose there is much
difference between the leaders of the two wings? I do not,
generally speaking. One wing charges the other with betraying their
comrades and sending them to British prisons. What is the effect of
it? Every man who has left Ireland for Ireland's good, because the
English police were after him, and every man who came here from
Millbank, came here crying, 'Revenge, revenge, revenge.' And yet
they say they come here and want an American jury to pass upon an
American case, while the motive behind it all is ancient Irish
malice, so far as that thing is concerned. What effect has this had
upon the witnesses? There is not a witness who has been discovered
in this case since the coroner's jury that is not a suspicious
witness. Did you notice the peculiarity of the witnesses? I never
saw such a body of witnesses and you never did. They have eyes like
the eagle; like the owls they can see better and farther by night
than by day. Their hearing is as sensitive as that of the deer that
roams through our northern forests. Their perceptive faculties are
marvelous. Their recollection is beyond conception. They can
remember the slightest circumstance. Every one of them, and it is
an extraordinary thing and quite unnatural, remembers the slightest
circumstance, and each of them does something more remarkable than
the defendants about whom they testify. You will remember that it
is not some public event which occurred and by which they
recollect, but it is evidence of an occurrence which they
themselves give, and such evidence and such memories as they have.
When in the future writers on memory want to give instances of
prodigious feats of memory they wil