first edition
1889
by Coy, Simeon
1889. Conscience is the Chamber of Justice" Coy, Simeon. The Great Conspiracy: A Complete History of the Famous Tally-Sheet Cases. Indianapolis: 1889. Frontispiece portrait. 261 pp. Original brown cloth. Head and foot of spine and extremities rubbed, Institutional bookplate with withdrawal stamp. $25. * First edition. A convicted politico's attempt at self-justification. "There is an old proverb which says, 'Conscience is the chamber of justice.' It does not matter what was done in some other 'chamber of justice,' there never was a verdict rendered against me in the chamber of justice where conscience presided, and this fact has, as I shall hope to show, kept me, while submitting to the mandate of the law, from nursing enmities towards those who in the heat of partisan passion sought my ruin." Preface, p. 6.
(Inventory #: 6303)