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volition to the mother of Sandt. The .a wig I!,nw
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" You Imes bets Newell as a Mather by a bionillOtwrlet
..that lSdlayarlf compelled, by the frirsoolshipthit yam tea.
tiled tug 'ate, to write you a word of consolation. If
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.4151 thitiiiiple loss of your excellent son T
inelitaay pesky; sad leave it to your own pitons heart,, Sad 44
•tbttA/eca(ivaof tune,Att-tal at your rarial!;.!'11111104
of the ououltitiotewijl, wilb au appearmire .it' bean.
-your son ai a trillions'. Tins is *hat rues% ma Jo Isl big
advocate with you, awl to wive pis memory fedllt ditMorPur•
at least in his own totally. The action he;loss cousmittedelm,
is with, notooly illegal and potooislinblelin the restore
temporal justice, bat; considered sbotraetedly,-ii imasispik
and contrary to social laws.. Fraud saihrioleace can sowar
roastilute •a right, sold the piodoets of as object commit
justify tbesiojoistice of the swami 'As a owiellial, 1 castosot
spree, of sorbtAiuns, it M Yy good, and tont by evil, that
we must return evil. But *kola **undertake to-judge urea
act already tosiothitteds'irialleilf lake for the •basis of our
iodises's; nit the general lair, but the conviction and
mitlirev Of him who has cohttaittl•ti if. It is according to his
ova 'WA that every one I. to be judged. I admit 'hot
yOile MAN rilohltion may have been (minded in error, end
not hate, been exempt from passion; hoot what man ran flat-
ter himself that he is exempt from passion and from error?
There never has been but one only. Error, however, is
excused, and in some degree overcome, by lire firmness
and purity, of conviction ; and passion is otocoilied by the
source from whit), it flows. I am persuaded that it has been
so with your pious nod virtuous son. He regarded his re-
solution as just, and it was therefore that he has acted
well. Let man act 'recording to his conviction, and
he will act well _ _

" If I do not absolve his resolution from all passion, I do
not thereby mean a gloomy Waxiest ion, a boiling agitation ;
for Seed& was, es I well know, of a swim and reflecting eh.-
racier. It was the purest enthusiasm that inspired him—that
enthusiasms proceeded from the best source, but it received
from Saudi's youth a violence which impelled him beyond
the hosted* of life. Without this species of passion, it I.
scarcely possible to perform a great action. The fire of
enthusiasm must necessarily burst forth. 1 assure you
that your son, instead of diminishing the love I emterblitsed
for him from the first element, has only augmented it. '
" Such so action as this, committed by a rein* man, po►e
and pions, actuated by faith and a firm cotivietion, is a
beautiful phenomenon in enrage. ‘Vh.stever may be the fate
that awaits your son, be has lived long enough. allure he has
resolved to die for the noblest passion of his heart. Who-
ever can thus risk his life, proves that he knows its full Va-
lise, and that he does not esteem it in proportion to its flora.
lion, but by its intrinsic beauty. Unhappily it has become
the habit among us to prefer a life passed in luxury and
idleness to the noblest death. The conduct of Sandt is the
sign of n noble mind, which might reuse men from their le-
thargy. A young man exposes his life to exterminate an
individual whom so mail others revered as on idol. Cam
ouch an set be attended by ins erect' Rut it is not re-
quisite to know the eonseq , to enable us to judge of
ao action. We do not estimate the life of • titan by the
■plendour that it sheds—that which is must obscure is often
the moat beautiful. Respected friend, cony you find these
rt dectious true, and preserve this manner of viewing the
transaction against all objections! It is you orbit have
given life to, and have brought up this extraordinary son;
you should be capable of understanding and of appreciating
him; yen too should support with courage and resignation
the fate that he has chosen for himself.
" I am, with respect," &c.

This letter appears evidently to have beets written
with the intention of causing it to be circulated
among the friends and partisans of Samlt. It low
in effect obtained this sort of clandestine publicity.
The following is the King's Itescript on this saw,
ject to the Minister of Public Instruction :

K Professor Watt. has acknowledged as authentic the
copy presented to him of a letter which he addressed on the
Slat of March lost, to Madame Saudi, wife of the Coml.-010r
of Justice, and he has strove to justify the murder com-
mitted by young Ssudt. The important chaste of a Pro-
fessor of Theology and Morality is incompatible with this
condect. I should wound soy conscience if I continued to
confide the instruction of youth to a man who remands assas-
sination as justified under certain conditions and piestunp.
lions, and I charge you by these presents to remove Pro.
fessor de Write from his function of as instructor.

(Signed) "FR !MIMIC ILL! AM.
" Berlin, September 30,11119."