Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVIII. Prison experience, continued.--An epitome of my life, case and trouble to "the Governor and the people."--The only argument and summing up of my case that was ever made.--The frank but fruitless wail for justice and humanity by a victim shanghaied, ravaged, and languishing in prison.--" Let thy keen glance his life search through, and bring his actions in review, for actions speak the man."--" While love and peace and social joy were there. Oh, peace! oh, social joy! Oh, heavenborn love! Were these your haunts where murderous demons rove? Distinction neat and nice, which lie between the poison'd chalice and the stab unseen." "seatco Prison, Washington Territory, April 20th, 1882. To his Excellency, Governor [Links], and to my countrymen at large --especially in my own section: -- As to "my case not being fully or formally made out or presented" at this stage, please consider that neither I nor my friends are lawyers, but that we have feelings, and thought we had sense and character enough to make so simple a case as mine manifest to any one disposed to "embrace the truth wherever found." And that this is all that would be necessary at this stage. And now my duress has been so prolonged, that I am destitute of means necessary to employ experts to make out a formal cose and plea--as at a contested, technical trial From comfortable circumstances--a competency--I have been reduced to want and distress--sore and cruel. But your Excellency, in a homely, awkward way, we thought it had been shown and is maintained by evidence given before, and by and witfi other facts proclaimed and questioned: First.--That I was always truthfully, peacefully, charitably and frankly disposed, to a fault, and temperate in all things;...
