The Litchfield County post., 1826-08-08
From the Franktort (Ky.), Argus. , .Eft% A "S

4N Or the attempts made by the late J..O. Beau-
 champ to procure pardon, and of the in-
 cidcnts attending the tragicaI death of him.
 self and wife, so far as they are known -to
 the writer. .
 The public have already been informed through the Argus, of the, mannerin whichJ. D. Bcanchannp seceiKSsa xiae s3ffnnre of death, and furnished with tlie substance of the testimony given on his trial. Isshan now give,a detail of the scenes which ensued, and of the catastrophe which closed this dreadful tragedy.
 Final sentence was pronounced on Beau- champ on Monday, the g2d ofMay. Onthe next tmorning, if I mistake not, received from him the following letter, left at the Argus of- fec, by his uncle, J. Beauchamp - . May 2ed, 1826.s Y
 Ny dear Sir,-A fallen enemy, as you have pleased to term me-, now appeals to your
 magnanimity and mercy. You have main 1 tained me the destroyer of one on whom your party looked as upon its leader; you have, consequently, viewed me, doubt not, with great abhorrence; but you had still the mag nanimity to cry out '' fair play" when you saw the cruel and ungenerous odds which were arrayed against me. They have suc- ceeded to condemn me to die. I shall now appeal to, my country, in mercy, to let me live. shall not ask to live in a country which deems me unworthy of life; but F shall ap- peal to the magnanimity of my country to suffer me to live out the measure of my days in foreign land. You can be greatly and extensively influential in 'inclining my coun- tfymen to such course of humanity lap peal to your magnanimity to do SO. | have fallen: am in your power. I have been cruelty persecuted by the newspapers. They have deprived me of the right of every Amer Ican freeman, to an unbiased, unprejudiced trial by a jury having no previous nreiudicial impressions upon their minds; and if I die, the papers have literally murdered me. I, therefore, have now some claims upon your, interposltion for mercy towards me. anu convicted through prejudice, and condemned by construction, without law. The papers in- named the people to convict me without eyi- oence' because, say they, ought to be con- victed and the Judge has pronounced sem tence without law, because, he says there ought to De law. Where has the world ever seen clearer demonstration of the absolute, tyrannical, and arbitrary legislation of Judge, than Tn the present case! What is more fool ish than the idea of fixed and equal laws, where the Judge can by construction expound itiust at his villas his partialifies or preiudices may dictate! lfhis feelings had been on my side. ne could have aid,although it was incantious m the legislature to repeal the law of murder, yet ne could not legislate for them. As they were against me, he condemned me to die, because, although the law was plainly, in so many plain words, repealed, yet he could not think the legislature intended, or would have intended, upon more mature reflection, tore peal the law Y! But you have, doubtless, re- marked Tor yourself this case. I, therefore, need add nothing to you on this head. All nave t0'dO now is, to implore you to advo-s cate that may be permitted to live. and de N part the government. Let your vengeance now. be melted away into magnanimity tome. or, at least, in mercy to my wife, and to my family, who are, you know, So much your friends. You can have now no political pur> pose to gain,by infaa,ing my ccuphy against me. All party rancour, to procure my con- viction, or operate on me, must now cease.-- You, shall ever have the justice to say, man