Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1827-08-17

henous crime. You have indeed pursued your ca
reer OF blood, regardless of God You have :
dehed the powers OF earth, and set at nought the
vengeance Of Heaven. Reckless Of your own fate,
you have not scruped to involve in it, the temporal
and eternal doom OF others. You have sent conf
ding husband suddenly to his account, and sought
the destruction, body and soul, Of treacherous and
deluded wife. And you have done all this without
provocaton, without resentment, without luminosity,
without passion but 10 cold-booded malignity, and
from heartless calculations of profit to yourself In
contempt of the divine command, you coveted your
nelghbor's house and his wife, and in order to OBJ
tam them you have violated without conjunction,
every remaining precept ofthe moral law.
you had no dread of eternal consequences, and
deliberately resolved to hazard your reputa-
ton, your peace Of mind, and your mortal ex-
lsence in the prosecution of your netarlous ends
had you no consideration. no remembrance OF your
friends Did it never cross your active, scheming
restless mind, that you had honest parents and other
reputable connexions, whose good name would be
tarnlshed-whose peace would be injured, whose
lives might terminate in sorrow for your crimes If
your heart were not of stone, if it could have felt
one touch Of humanity, that reflection would have
staid your murderous hands. lfinthe hardness and
self sucency of your heart, you forgot and despl-
| sed them yet, will not this Court overlook their
request or disregard their grief; but from respect
to their unmer ted suffering, will spare them the adj
ditonal pang Of ordering your liieess body for dis
section and in the exercise OF its discretion, direct
| it to be delivered into their hands.
/ 1.-THE monitor within your breast, be not already
awakened, or you regard not what is said to you,
listen charge you, to the still small voice of con-
science. 1t can admonish you more potently, and
convince you deeply, than can words from the
lips of man. lfyou have not already begun to feel
that you owe your being to an Almighty and Eternal
Author, and that you have offended, not .arely
agansthuman ordinances, but against the imIiutabie
laws of the infinitely wise and righteous Ruler otthe
Unverse-is j ou do not already believe that your
accountability not confined to this world, as sure
you still cxst, you will one day know it; and you
will soon know, that without the divine mercy, you
must meet eternal punishment-as sure as there is I
i God
Prepare then, to meet him face to face Pray
if you ever have, or ever can, for his mercy; fo
: that only can avail you now. Die you must-ol
earth you can expect no pard0n-rom Heaven alone
must you look for it and there may be mercy there
even for one vile and wretched as yourself Blu
lit is to be obtained only from the infinite mercy
4 the God whom you have denied through the merit
and ntercesson of the Saviour you have desplsed
and by the influence Of the holy spirit, whose ak
: you have rejected --Fu and unfeigned r,pentance
. is the only condition on which it is vouchsaled. Blu
. your heart of stone must be converted to heart
!. 1esh--you mast be brought to feel, and abho. AM
h to acknowledge your guilt and through penitcnc
- and cuntrtion, must your soul be purified. Be no
n however, deceived your only hope of pardon afte
~ death, depends the sincerity of your repentanc
>. before you die. For in the grave there is neithe
II repentance nor forgiveness. Neither can man ve'
ture to assure you of pardon !: for God alone ca
p read your heart, Improve then the time aitorde
70 you. 1t will be long enough for every essential pu
81 pose Of preparation but not for encouraging va
= and delusive imaginations, reviving lingering
- grets or falacous expectations From this instan
~ consider yourself cut off from the world and all tn
herein is; look only on your entrance to the nes
70 And at your final departure, seek not the appau
'r of men, but humble Yourself as it becomes you,
vi fore an offended God. Affect not the character
Nv an heroic felon, but endeavor to behave like chr
he tan and however contrte and penitent you mi
); feel be not deluded into surprising yourself ma
~ tyr or saint, but remember to the last moment
,m' your life, that you are maefacor and sinner.
~ The sentence of the law is, that you Jesse Stran
mi otherwise called Joseph Orton be taken hence to
n;s place from whence you came, there to remain
,ar in custody of the sheriff of the county OF Alban
n until Friday the Gath day of August, inst. on viii
day. between the hours of Eat noon and three the
'o after YOU arr to be brought forth by the sheriff
some proper place, to be by him selected for the Pr
pose, and there hung BY the neck until you are de
ON And may God have mercy on your immortal SO
Ike Extracts from the second uolume OF Dr. Goodman
, r. Natural History.
ots The OpossuM-The hunting of the opossum i
th fayourite sport with the country people, who II
Md quently go out with their dogs at night, alter
NH. autumna fosts have begun aud the Pcrslmmon fru
ono in its most delicious state. The opossum' as 80
ing as ne discovers ~. app. ,aeas b;nse,f On,
s ,nJ t. where two limbs separate from each other
,nal dogs however, SUM an1uhsI @ ascendnu
lore sence ny thelf paJ "'" h;ch tho ,n;,ns
aus seated and begins to shake it with great violence
fes alarm anu cause nun " - ..a,n,;nr +o eecana