The Appin Murder: The Historical Basis of "Kidnapped" and "Catriona"W. Hodge, 1911 - 62 pages |
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Page 52 - ... Lords, I tamely submit to my hard sentence. I forgive the jury, and the witnesses, who have sworn several things falsely against me ; and I declare before the great God, and this auditory, that I had no previous knowledge of the murder of Colin Campbell, of Glenure, and am as innocent of it as a child unborn. I am not afraid to die ; but what grieves me, is my character, that after ages should think me capable of such a horrid and barbarous murder.
Page 55 - ... all my friends and relations benefactors and well-wishers, particularly my poor wife and children, who in a special manner I recommend to His divine, care and protection ; and may the same God pardon and forgive all that ever did or wished me evil, as I do from my heart forgive them. I die in full hopes of mercy, not through any merit in myself, as I freely own I merit no good at the...
Page 51 - If you had been successful in that rebellion, you had been now triumphant, with your confederates, trampling upon the laws of your country, the liberties of your fellow subjects, and on the Protestant religion : you might have been...
Page 51 - Protestant religion. You might have been giving the law where you now have received the judgment of it; and we, who are this day your judges, might have been tried before one of your mock Courts of judicature...
Page 42 - It is confounding things to say that this is making the pannel's wife and children witnesses against him. The declarations will not be produced to prove the truth of anything contained in them, of which they would not be legal evidence ; they are only to prove that the persons who emitted the declarations averred these things...
Page 48 - ... allow yourselves to be carried off by passion or prejudice, and though I have no doubt of the integrity or honour of any of the gentlemen to whom I now address myself, yet, upon this occasion, it is my duty to say, that if you find the pannel guilty, either without evidence or upon doubtful evidence...
Page 29 - Nobody is happy before be die; what is the pannel's fate today, may be onr's to-morrow, and what is proof against him, may be against another long after this. Every trial, therefore, though it presently affects only those who are under it, is in a material sense the cause of those who do try, of the public, and of posterity. My lords, having said so much in general, (and I think I could say no less) it should be my province now to state what has occurred to me for thé defence of the pannel against...
Page 55 - Rather pity them, and pray for them, as they have my blood to answer for. And though you hear my prosecutors load my character with the greatest calumny, bear it patiently, and satisfy yourselves with your own conviction of my innocence. And may this my hard fate put an end to all discords among you, and may you all be united by brotherly love and charity. And may the great God protect you all, and guide you in the ways of peace and concord, and grant us a joyful meeting at the great day of judgment.
Page 30 - I shall only further add that the pannel is now on trial for his life ; he asserts his own innocence ; he pleads " not guilty " to the charge. I hope it is the answer of every one present ; God give him a good deliverance. And if he falls let it be as a sacrifice to justice, to expiate guilt, and purge the land of blood, not as a victim to the blind fury of his enemies, or the rage of the deceased's friends, to appease popular prejudices, or ill-founded clamour and outcry.
Page 30 - I shall only further add that the panel is now on trial for his life; he asserts his own innocence; he pleads ' not guilty ' to the charge. I hope it is the answer of every one present — ' God give him a good deliverance.' And if he falls, let it be as a sacrifice to justice, to expiate guilt, and purge the land of blood, not as a victim to the blind fury of his enemies or the rage of the deceased's friends, to appease popular prejudices or ill-founded clamour and outcry.