Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-08-13
"STRIKE BUT HEAR"

"STRIKE BUT HEAR"
Every eye is turned on Mr. Buchanan. Eve
nv man is specializing upon what his statement
will be-~how far il will confirm, and how Tar 1t
will contradict, that OF General Jackson. In
dependent Of General Jackson having, without
permission, given up the name Of MIR. Buchan.
an as the bearer Of corrupt proposition, care
is taken 10 let him and the public know, that
General Jackson has consulted with Major Ea-
ton, and that so far as depends upon him the
s,siemen, of General Jackson shall be corrobo-
rated.
Devoted as we know Mr. Buchanan was, and
is, TO the cause o. General Jackson, we cannot
but marvel al the dsingenuousness with which,
10 give color 10 the conversation, Gen. Jackson
takes occasion to say. that he understood Mr.
Buchanan chad always to that moment been on
familiar and friendly terms with Mr.. Clay
We venture TO affirm that there was no man at
Washington more intensely anxious to effect
the elevation Of General Jackson to the. Presi-
dency than WAS MIR. Buchanan, and this fact
was well known and duly appreciated by Gen.
jackson; yet, he would diseolour the whole
communication by inducing the public to be
lieve that MIR. Buchanan was on mole familiar
and friendly terms with Mr.. Clay" than he was
with him, the General, Dem. Press.
The address of Judge Duer to thy unhappy
Strsng, which we copy below from the Albany
papers, is powerful and eloquent, and calculat:
ed, if any human counsel can benefit him. TO
move the hear, of the convict:
Sentence of Srang.-Tbe following is Judge
Duer's address to Strang when he pronounced
q no ~ he 10 4 lad a up r.
cep,ibe effect upon the prisoner, and the whole
audience appeared deeply impressed with the
awful solemEity Of the occasion:
Jesse !Strang! Hearken to what shall say TO
you. You have been indicted on the oaths OF
the Grand Ipques, Of the county Of Albany, as
principal ftlon in the murder Of john Whippie,
10 which indictment on your arrangement you
pleaded MOI Gully, and Tor your dellverance put
yourself upon your country. Ihe]ury selected
from that country, for your trial, have found you
Guiiy, and il remains only tor the court 10 pass
sentence of death agsins, you. Have you aught
TO say why the Judgment OF the law should not
be pronounced upon you!
You say nothing. Nothing is to be said. The
crime for which you are 10 suffer is o. the deep
est dye-the circumstances under which 1t was
committed are OF the most a,rocious charac-
ter, and your guilt has been most clearly esta-
blished BY Your own confession, you planned
and executed the destruction Of the deceased,
with the most deliberate and perhdious cruelty.
Not with the ie.oci,y Of the tiger, but with the
cunning of the serpent and the malignily OF
fend Impelled by lust and avarice, you direct
I'd your subtle Vaccinations 10 the possession
Of the. person and property of his wife, and hav-
ing succeeded in one part Of your design, you
pursuedH with remorseless energy and unre
lenting perseverance until you had removed, as
you supposed, the sole obstacle TO the accom-
plishment Of the other. You commenced by
seducing this weak, infatuated woman from her
allegiance 10 her husband-proceeding, beguil-
ed her from her duty to society, her family, and
her God, and ended her ruin with the murder
of her husband; and had you escaped detection,
you would probably have realized the guilty ex-
pectation that tempted you to these arts OF COM
plicated vllany. But the murderer seldom
escapes detection, or lies for any length oftime
Even.handed justice sooner or later
is sure TO overlake him; and special Prov idence
seems frequently to discover him, when trusting
to his articles, he thinks himself secure This
may have been the case with you. You proba-
bly, imagined that if YOU could elude the vigi
lance Of man, your guilt would continue unre-
veaed; or even, that fyou could escape punish
ment in this world, you would have nothing TO
apprehen in that which is to come. But JUS
tce has been swift to overtake you, and you now
stand convicted, trembling and weeping before
a tribunal Of your fellow-men. How will you
appear before your God' Perhaps you doubt
that there is God, and from the selfish obdu
racy Of your conduct, as well as from reports
founded on your own confessions, which though
not officially before US, have from their noto-
rie,y reached our ears, we fear that your heart
has been long since hardened, and your mind
darkened into Atheism; that inhdelity was the
source of an early md intense depravity, and
the ultimate cause of your last most aggravated
and heinous crime. You have indeed pursued
your career of blood, regardless Of God or man.
You have de6ed the powers Of earth, and set at