There he sets befo' you," he cried, suddenly raising his voice and pointing a forefinger at the prisoner, who sat smiling amiably.

"There he sets, the hardened and self-confessed criminal, guilty of the foulest crime upon the calendar of ouah law.

A murderer, gentlemen, a murderer with red hands an' with the brand of Cain upon his brow! This man, this fiend, killed ouah fellow-citizen Calvin Greathouse--he brutally murdered him.

Not content with murder, he attempted to destroy his body with fiah, seekin' thus to wipe out the record of his crime.

But the fiah itself would not destroy the remains of that prince of men, ouah missin' friend an' brother! His corpse cried out, accusin' this guilty man, an' then an' there this hardened wretch fell abjeckly onto his knees an' called on all his heathen saints to save him, to smite him blind, that he might no mo' see, _sleepin_' or wakin', the image of that murdered man--that murdered man, ouah friend an' brother, ouah _citizen_ an' friend." The orator knew his audience.