Useless, useless

[Linda Anderson]

Dr. Gillette, Lewis Powell's spiritual adviser, reported that Powell also regarded his actions as "useless." According to Gillette, the night before Powell was executed he said:

“My course is run. I know now how foolish, vain and wholly useless it is and must have been, and were I set at liberty this morning I should hope to be dead at sunset, as all men must hereafter point at me as a murderer.”