Show MISSED A GREAT CHANCE Some papers are praising the speech made by Judge Titus in the Czolgosa trial The CourierJournal rightly we think characterizes It as chiefly a defense de-fense by Judge Titus of Judge Titus for being defendants counsel In the case That occasion would have supplied sup-plied a great lawyer with a great opportunIty op-portunity Suppose William I Seward had received such an assignment when he was in his prime and practicing law In tha Empire Stale Think what a picture he would have drawn of his client n man with brain and mind and I heart all perverted so far as to meditate medi-tate such a murder and to be Indifferent Indiffer-ent when by the blow he struck he had 1 killed the most blameless of men and whelmed a nation In mourning He would have shown by every act of the man that he was In fact an irresponsible Irrespon-sible being and his plea would have been that the law contemplated the execution of no such a criminal that it was the duty of the Jury not to consign con-sign him to death but to solitary confinement con-finement where he could never moro I do harm but In silence and solitude wait until In the course of nature he should be called hence We do not think the plea would have availed anything for the public sentiment sen-timent In that atmosphere would not have permitted It but It was the opportunity op-portunity of a lifetime for Judge Titus and he failed to Improve l |