Modern battles of Trenton .. . ns, and a loud laugh greeted his slip of tongue. Well, the old Governor went on after the merriment hadsubsided, I should have f aid Fellow citizens! But no !let it be Gentlemen of the jury, for after all you are a jurygathered to try your candidate on a charge of sympathy withtreason, and to declare him guilty or not guilty by your voteswhen you have heard all the evidence. So let it be Gentlemenof the jury/ and well organize a court here for the trial ofGovernor Joel Parker on the charges that have been madeagainst him. Then assuming to be the public prosecutor
Modern battles of Trenton .. . ns, and a loud laugh greeted his slip of tongue. Well, the old Governor went on after the merriment hadsubsided, I should have f aid Fellow citizens! But no !let it be Gentlemen of the jury, for after all you are a jurygathered to try your candidate on a charge of sympathy withtreason, and to declare him guilty or not guilty by your voteswhen you have heard all the evidence. So let it be Gentlemenof the jury/ and well organize a court here for the trial ofGovernor Joel Parker on the charges that have been madeagainst him. Then assuming to be the public prosecutor, he formally openedthe case for the State, and arraigned himself in such a speech asa prosecutor might have made had he been really at the he called the witnesses one after the other, pictured themas sitting in the witness box, and questioned them on the directand on the cross just as they might have been questioned bycounsel on either side, and repeated their imaginary responses tohis amused and interested Joel Parker. 40 MODERN BATTLES OF TRENTON. And now the State rests, he went on, and the witnesses forthe defense are summoned. Andrew G. Curtin, take the are the War Governor of Pennsylvania, Mr. Curtin ? I am. Do you know the reputation of Joel Parker, of New Jersey,for loyalty to the Union cause ? I do. Is it good or bad ? For answer he read a letter from Curtin in which that notedpatriot had spoken words of highest encomium for the zeal withwhich Joel Parker had upborne the Union arms. Edwin M. Stanton, take the stand. And the Governor,acting as counsel for the defense, put the great Secretary throughthe same series of interrogations. And, for answer, Stantonstelegram, thanking the Governor for the alacrity with which hehad sent troops forward, was read amid wildest applause. I might have produced a witness whose certificate would bethe absolute acquittal of the defendant at the bar. he said, withsubdued pathos, and turning as if to address
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