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

/ naught the vengeance Of Heaven. Reckless of
your own fate, you have not Acrupled TO involve
in it, the temporal and eternal doom Of Others,
You have sen: con6ding husband suddenly to
his account, and sought the destruction, body
| and soul, of treacherous and deluded wife,
And you have done all this without provoca-
ton, without resentment, without luminosity,
without passion; but in cold-bIooded nialienity,
and from heaItless calculations OF profit to
yourself. In contempt Of the divine command,
you coveted your neighbours house, and his wife,
and in order to obtain them, you have violated
without compunction, every remaining precept
of the moral law.
If you had no dread of eternal consequences,
and deliberately resolved to hazard your own
reputation, your peace of mind, and even your
mortal existence in the prosecution of your ne
farious ends-had you no consideration, nor
remembrance of your friends? Did il never
cross YOUR active, scheming, restless, mind,
that you had honest parents and other reputa-
bic connexions, whose good name would be
ia, nished-whose peace would be injured,
whose lives might terminate in sorrow for
your crimes? If your heart were not of stone,
lift could have felt one touch of humanity, that
reflection would have staid your murderous
hands If in the hardness and self suficiency
of your heart, you forgot or despised them: yet,
will not this Court overlook their request, or
disregard their grief; but from respect to their
unmerited suffering, will spare them the addi
tional pang of ordering your lifrless body for
dissection, and in the exercise of its discretion
direct it to be delivered into their hands.
If the monitor within your breast, be not al
ready awakened, or you regard not what is said
to you, listenI charge you to the still small
voice of conscience. L; can admonish you
more potentIy, and convince you more deeply,
than an words from the lips of man. If you
have not already begun to feel that you owe
your being to an Almighty and Eternal Author,
and that you have offended, not merely against
human ordinances, but against the immutabIe
laws of the infinitely wise and righteous Ruler
of the Universe-If you do not already believe
that your accountability is not confined to this
world, as as you still exist, you will one day
know it; and you will soon know, that without
the divine mercy, you must meet etsrnal pun
ishment-as sure as there is God
Prepare then. to meet him face to face.
Pray! if you ever have. or ever can, for his iner-
CIV; for that only can avail you now Die you
must on earth you can expect 20 pardon-from
Heaven alone, must you look for it, and there
may be mercy there, e en- for one so vile and
wretched as yourself. But it is to be obtained
only from the Infinite mercy Of God whom you
have denied; through the merits.ard interces
sion Of the Saviour you have dcspissd; and ny
the influence Of the Holy Spirit, whose aid you
have rejected. Full and unfcigned repentance,
is the only condition on which il Is vouchsafed
But your heart Of stone must BIZ conveyed to a
hart of flesh you must be broaI rte feel -
abhor, as well as.to Acknowledge tyur guilt; IA
| through penitence and contrtio3, must your
soul be purified. Be not however deceived;
your only hope Of pardon after death, depends
on the sincerity of your repentance before you
die. For in the grave there is neither repen
lance nor forgiveness. Neither can man VEN
ture to assure you Of pardon: for God alone can
read your heart. Improve then the time afford
ed you. twill be long enough for every essen
tial purpose OF preparation; but not for encour-
aging vain and delusive~ imaginations, or re-
wing lingering regrets, or fallacious expecta-
tons. From this instant, consider yourself cut
off from the world and all that therein is; look
only upon your entrance to the next And at
your final departure, seek not the applause of
men, but humble yourself as it becomes you,
before an offended God Affect no, the char
acter of an heroic felon, but endeavor TO be.
have like christian; andliowever contrite and
penitent you may feel, be not deluded into sup
posing yourself a martyr or a saint, but re-
member to the last moment of your life, that
you are malefactor and sinner.
The sentence of the law is, that you Jesse
Strang, otherwise called Joseph Orton,be taken
hence TO the place from whence YOU came, there
to remain in custody ofthe sheriff Of the comfy
of Albany, until Friday the Gath day Of August,
inst. on which day, between the hours of 70 at
noon and three thereafter, you are to be brought
forth BY the said sheriff to some proper place,
TO be by him selected for the purpose, and there
hung by the neck until you are dead-And may
God have mercy on your immortal soul.
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