"Sam": or The history of mystery./ By C. W. Webber.

II SAM: " OR, THE HISTORY OF MYSTERY.
one of the most intelligent of the jury has stated publicly,
since the trial, that he was for damages, or heavy damages.
If there was any such juror on that jury, he kept his opinion
to himself —he did not make it known to the other jurors, as
he ought to have done. We do affirm that one cent was the
highest damages named by any one on that jury in our
hearing; and we further state, that every one of the jury,
who was for finding a verdict for the plaintiff [the priest],
did state that he would glory in making each one pay his
own costs, if it were in his power to do so. And we also
state, that under all the circumstances, but for the instructions of the court, we would have been compelled to find a
verdict for the defendant " [Rice]. The testimony was taken
down at the time, signed by the court, and filed among the
records of the Nelson County Circuit Court. I immediately
published in the Western Protestant, and afterwards in a small
volume, a full account of the trial, with the testimony in the
case. And it is a fact, that the priests, though they instituted
suit professedly for the purpose of obtaining the testimony
and laying it before the public, never have published one
line of it, nor even the verdict rendered! The public would
have remained ignorant of the verdict, but for the Protestant
press.
I have given this brief history of the only law-suit in
which I was ever involved, because it is the only suit of the
kind which has occurred in our country; because it shows
the estimation in which the character of a priest and his
nunnery were held, where they were well known, where the
legal testimony was fully heard, and where the most powerful influences were brought to bear by the bishop and his
clergy to sustain the suit.
The fate of MILLY McPHERSON, the lost nun, is still
involved in profound mystery. Many believe, and will
believe, that she was murdered to prevent further exposures
of the priests and nunneries!
Prudent parents will pause and consider, before they place
their daughters in Roman nunneries to be educated. It can
not be, that nuns, the most superstitious of all people, who
never think for themselves, are the persons to discipline the
minds of female youth to vigorous and independent thinking.
It will be found, I apprehend, that the education given in
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