Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-06-08


it was apparently with the fatigue of having sat up
NIL night. Some of them CAPPED; nothing in their
coantenances indicted that they had brought in sen
tcnce of death: could divine nothing in the faces
OF these good citizens, except strong desire TO sleep
"Cundernned 20 death. Well, why not, Men. I
remember to have read somewhere, men all con-
deInned To death, and reprcycd from time TO tune
What then Is changed in my situation
From the hour when my sentence was pronotn-
ced, how many are dead who were preparing for
long life! How many have preceded me who, young
free, and healthy, were reckoning upon such. or
such day on going TO tho Greve to my head fall
l-fov many are there, who now Walking at lib.
erty, breathing The open air, and going In and out a,
pleasure, will still 20 before me-
Il have just made my will To what end am
condemned in Gusts, and all that have, will scarcely
pay them. The guliotinc IL very dear.
II leave a mothcr-l leave a wifc-l leave a child
"a htlv girl of three years old, gentle rosv deli
cate, with large black eyes, ond hair of chesnut
She was two years old aud Il month when last saw
her
Thus after my death three females without son,
withou; husband, wihou, father; three orphans Of
different KIND three widows by ono deed of law"
"Sincc the day did not yet appear what was 10 do
with the sight An idea has Just occurred to me-
arose and carried my lamp round the four walls of
my dungeon. They are covered with scrawls rude
drawings droll figures, names one upon another. 1t
would that each prisoner had wished 10 leave
some trace behind him. here nj least Here is pen-
cIl, chalk, charcoal, letters black white. and gray
some lines deep cut in the stone here and tbcgc
ruddy characters, If drawn in blood. Assuredv II
my mind less occupied should take some inter
est in the s,ran,r. history which ,ne,s ,,o, ,,o ~
by page, as | go from stone to stone. On level
with my pillow there two flaming hearts pierced
with an arrow: nhove ,bon ,b. wo,J oyo ar Tc
The unhappy man did not engnme for hmm On ',,u n
side sort Of three corncred hat with yc,y L,,i
figure coarscly drawn md beneath tlrsn UorJ.N
'NIve Emperor, 1894
"Aoain famirr hearis VIII h This inn o,,
teristc of prison. 4 love and adore Mp,,bou, Dan
win. James, On tho onpnstP ynII "a tho nave ri
Papavone: the laruc F. ornament,d with all cots rl
fine fiourishcs
'rhe stanza OF an obscene sDnr A can of liner
ty deeply cut in the sonc-with .inr;es' bcI,,v .,rh
Republic TGis was one Of the subaIorns ,,bo |
loincd in the affair of La Rochelle poor vo',n,,
man, Oh these polical necessi,.s ,,o h,i,y,s -
an idea a dream an abstraction The b,-;Li u.s. 80.
called the uuillo,mc.-And nretcnJ 60 nouIn
who have committed r.,,l rri,n, ,h L PI,,i
blood" Nv "A'0 '''eu
THY oRn,S,pv
mo. law rs may bo fallen I nm, ma ,,,hor,,.o-
Gnd - my y,i,nnsa that T boI;or,o - b; n,
is il that tho old Ordinr,v hos ID ~, N' rI
notLinp I was no, ofsc,c3 7 go ,,, Nv ;eN
laid hold of my sDn NOTHING came from bs bsa,i -
nine--nothinG which was he ,rd Zion ,,i,1 ~
he contrary all yvns va,r,,c Toonn,onM,s aI;Ni
10 all and every bod,. c,i,Dh,t;,, u,bnro no ndtL,
have been impressiyr An ,vhora b., boJ,i3 t, W
been simple: Sort of s.ntincntpl sermon ~ tbn,
rical elcGc Hcrn and ,b,ro - 80; -, ' E,
Aunnstin, ST GREGORY. or what not iAnJ ,bnr i I
had the air Of rcpestin, lesson far tho tn,o,;a.
time of ruunincr over obIi,cystoI , ~; 80
orv by the mere force Of flrniIiartv No, cIanco
in the eve accent in tho yoicn oy c,o,,,,-o - ~
hands And how ,honId !, b =, r,;so, ." TIT t'ie
priest is the Official CLERGYMAN crtbc oaoI HE bns
moss is to console and eXhort, and he lives by So do
no. The prisoners the natients nro tho 80" ~ ~
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4 long time he has been habitualed to that which
would make another shudder; his velnovdcreJ
hair never stands erect: the rnlevs and the ccafd
are every day circumstances for him. lie is blpnted
Perhaps he kec0s a hook on ono side the service rr
those who arc to be transported. and on the o,bor
Tor those who arc to be executed IIc ia ;rf,rrDnd
inthc evening who is to be consoled at such an hour
he asks whc,hcrhc is to be transported or death
and lie reads the page and then he comcs.-Then |
both they who arc going 10 Fouon. and they who ro
TO the Grevc, are but common place fIr him and