Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1822-11-02

INSTANTANEOUS.
From the Western (yincennes) sun, Oct. Is

A number Of persons having express
ed wish that we would procure the
sentence Of the court delivered in the
case of the State Us. M'Kinney-Judge
Call has obligingly favored US with il,
and we now present it to our readers.
81 have now to perform the most So
Tenn and painful duty that l ever yet
have had, and, trust in God will be as
signed me no more. 1t has fallen to my
10, to tell fellow being his final doom |!
to fix the last moment, beyond which the
pulse Of life will never beat.
| A. the commencement of the present
term OF this court, the grand jury, com
posed of the most respectable citizens of
the county, preferred charge Of murder
against you. You were arraigned, plead
not guilty, and because Of your inability
TO employ, the court assigned you coun-
sel--the Witnesses against you were
closely ard critically examined-your
cause ably and well defended before a
most respectable jury, who brought in a
verdic, OF guilty the penalty attached TO
your crime, by the law, is death f!
Not that the law delights in death /;
but your crime being The blacklist known
to our code, the seyerest penalty is re-
quired to be inflicted. Il prevents you
from therepeii,ion OF your crime, and de-
tiers Others from initiating your horrible
example. Were not the seyerest for
FIXTURES required, whenever this crime
was committed, the friends and relatives
ct the murderer and his victim, would
arraign themselves on their respective
sides, take the redress OF injury into their
own hands--and help themselves TO
vengeance. The peace and harmony of
families and community would be de-
stroyed, and confusion and civil discord
ensue. To prevent this evil, the law
puts its mark upon Cain, and says
4" Whosoever shall STAY him, shall sure
iy die" lttakes the offender and his Of
fence into its own custody, and by tri-
bunal wholly disin,erested, where no
friend or relative OF either party can in
terfere, cody and deliberately adjudi-
Gates his cause, and when his guilt is
thus established, then, and no, till then,
is his punishment pronounced.
Death, coming in its usual or natural
shape, is at all times terrible l, is So
even to the holy and pious worshippers o.
God, who have no heinous crimes to an
swer for. It's approaches then, when
brought on by our own guilty deeds, must
be viewed with the wlldes, horror A
short space of time is allowed you be-
tween this and the grave We advise
you most earnestly TO employ this dread
lul interval in true repentance, and hum
bic supplica,ions before the throne OF
the Almighty. Although earthly advo-
Gates fail in their suits, and earthly trl-
bunais refuse to pardon--yet, in that
hea, enly court, where the eternal God
of mercy is Judge, and the blessed Re-
deemer mercedes, there pardon and
forgiveness, flows as freely, as tits sin
cerely sought. Remember with hope
and faith, the promise CT our Saviour TO
he peniten, tibet who expired by his side
land may tic Lord have the like mer-
cy on thy soul.
II is adudged and ordered, that you
now be conveyed to the place whence you
came, there to remain until The 18th Oc-
tober, inst. and then between the hours
OF two end three O'Clock on the evening
Of that day, the Sheriff Of Knox county
convey you to some convenient place,
without, the limits of this Borough, and
there, upon gallows to be erected for
that purpose, you be hanged by the
neck until you are dead.
Agreeably to The sentence cfthe court,
on Tuesday last, Thomas Mckinney was
executed for the murder Of James Boyd
"a large concourse ofpeople assembled
TO witness the solemn spectacle. A few
minutes before he was launched into
eternity he made short address to the
people acknowledging that he had been a
bad man, and hoped that he had made
his peace with God. ID.
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