The Northern star, and farmers' and mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Warren, R.I.) 1830-1834, 1830-08-28

| families. They were born, and reared
and educated among us. They had the
means of living within their own control,
If they had pursued the course of honesty
and industry.
But they forsake this course, and re-
solve to cut their road to fortune through
blood and murder.
Our peaceful city stood aghast at this
lreadfnl deed. The very foundation OF
,ur society seemed to be shaken--and the
,hock was not confined to this vicinity or
State, but extended throughout this land.
Suspicious too horrible for utterance
were excited in the breasts of rejecting
men. The sense of security which the
law inspires, was in great manner lost.
No mans house was considered a safe
castle-and men seemed for time dis
posed to trust to their own arms, rather
than to the protection Of the law for their
safety.
But there is a providential watch con-
stantly over US. The murderers have been
detected by means as extraordinary as
their crime was atrocious. The Assassin
has perished by his own hands-and the
tremendous punishment for your crime is
about to fall upon you.
But there is in these awful events a
WARNING VOICE, which speaks to all, and
especially to the young, as with the sound
ofthe earthquake, IN every breeze which
watts the news of this horrid tragedy
" Forsake not the ways Of truth, and hon
est industry, which lead to honor and ev-
erlasting life, for the paths Of vice and
profigac which lead to ignomy and
DEATH"
BE not deceived by their enticing ap
pearances. AT their beginning, the rose
buds of hope and passion may appear, but
they end in anguish, poverty and destruct-
ion."
Our fervent prayer for you, is, that you
may be prepared, by sincere repentance,
to appear before the Judge of all the
Earth. And we would urge you to apply
to those pious men whose duty it is to
teach our Holy Religion, to help you
with their prayers and Instructions during
the few remaining days which may be al
lowed to you and may God grant sue
cess to their endeavors.
1t only remains for us to declare the
sentence of the Law-which is, and this
court doth accordingly adjudge,
That you be carried from hence to the
prison from whence you came-and from
thence to the place of Execution-and
there be hanged by the neck until you
shall be dead And may Gcd of his inf
mite grace have mercy upon your soul.
In performing this oppressively painful
duty, Judge Putnam was much affected,
and sobbed audibly after he had pronounc
ed the judgment ofthe Court. The prison.
er, on the contrary, maintained his uncon
Germ throughout. Indeed, there was ap-
pasently not a spectator, who did not suf-
fer more than he who was the most inter-
ested. On leaving the bar, he put quid
of tobacco into his mouth, with the utmost
nonchalance.
The trials Of Joseph j. Knapp. Jr. and
George Crowninshield, are necessarily
postponed till the next term ofthe Court,
which will sit in Salem, Nov. 9. The
Judges are required by law to proceed on
the Circuit in the western counties early
next month and the recent death of the
Chief Justice has devolved on the Court
many arduous preparatory duties.
The day of. +. Knapp's execution is
to be fixed by the Governor and Council.
i Boston Patriot.