Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-07-30

sanekionlng the revolution Of Caxacas were exfore.l
from the people by repeated threas from certain
chiefs That the present reaction was concerted
some months since, and that they only DELAYED their
declaration 10 await the approach of the Lberator
Venezuela. That on seeing themselves Abandoned
to their own fate, and that the Council Of Ministers
We're thinking OF deserving the Congress and Colon
bia, by sanctioning the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the Re-
public, and by violating the fundamental law Of the
nation, they could no longer remain inactive They
were compelled to avow their sentiments and 10 oct
lest their shence should give grounds for suspicion
that Venezuela acquiesced in the dl nemberneut of
the country when in fact she resolved to support the
national integrity,the Constituent Congress, aud the
Liberator President.
BY this time the High Chief of the Police had cir
cuated information of the retirement of Gen Bolivar
from the supreme command and his going to Cartha-
gena for the purpose of leaving Colombia This to-
geher with the abuses vomtted forth by the press of
Caracas against the Liberutor eyasperated the Ven
ezuelans to such an extent that thew were abundant
ly ripe for u reaction. Gen. Machado, one of the
weathcs men of these valles has orders to see the
Lberator wherever he may be found, and even to
tIllow him to Europe if by any fatality he has Ieft
colombia. The regiment of Caucogua, which Gen.
Paez had ordered to Valencia, and from thence 10
San Carlos, had deserted with their arms and were
one OF tho first corps in making the declaration Ri.
nay the reaction is general and the people have ia
Ken arms en- masSe TO support il. They de mand the
presence OF the Lberator, aud nothing else will sat
isiy them.
CARTHAGENA, June 1.-THE constitution sane.
toned by the Constituent Congress of $780, was
published on the 10Th inst. with all the pomp and So
lemnity due to so august an act.
An earthquake took place al Carthapena on the
18th June, which created much alarm, but did no Sc
rlous damhgc. II was apprehended that in the in;e-
ror Provepces the damage might have been consider
able.
Sdism Murder The Saan Gazette gives the following ex
tract from the able charge of Chief Justice Parker the I'M
poant aud nice points OF Law involved in the painful
Sale
III may he subject of inquiry, what constitutes presence
within me meaning OF the second branch of this enactment
pesen, aiding and abeiiing in the such crime
"And the construction of this phrase which is taken from
the common law has been settled by wise and
learned sages of the law and that adopted aud
sanctioned by successive judicial decisions TO the time OF
the adoption of our Constitution, the legislature who
ms statute without doubt referred 70 this
when they framed it,
"By this construction ii required abeor shall
be actually upon the spot when the murder committed or
to make bun principal.
"lf he be distance operating in the aei by watching
to prevent relief or give alarm his
IN escape haUag k7Ortedgs Of The purpose object of he
dsSGssihis IN the of the law being present. aiding aud
abeitling SO as TO make HIM principal the murder
"Ihe distinction between person thus situated who
Is denona'ed by statute an before the fac, is
inc ater not only IN every sense absent from the
crms butts not an Immediate participation IL he NAV not
know the time wheo aud the place where ii He
mas previously perhaps days or mouths before hd. counsel
led procured the deed DONE has 10 imnedae
asency in the deed.
Ills deemed by the law as gea, as bis who
strikes the blows ii often moral point OF view greater
as may combine greater number of desperate and abo
ca moiives without the influence which the crime would
never have been committed 1t denotes the savage heart
the murderer, without his bold and daring hand Il puts il
peril his SOUL and the souls others who but fnr him
might have free from tho go of blood the law
Furnishes the accessory before the fact the manner as
Furnishes the actual perperaior-ihey alike murderers
fhere at the common law difference and SUPPOSE
TO exist also under statute in regard the and th
time of trial. bsween those whoare called principals and &C
cessoreS before The fact being held that unless there be
conviction of principal there he trial of
This difference, il exist relic of the unwise reneme1
OF ancient times there being good why
beinIe tile fact 10 proceed have been comn,e
should not he tried and punished although princ Al ma
have escaped, by death otherwise the punishment whc
awaited bis crime in this world. t..,-f
"BUt occasion should point and HI
common law should be found been varied by on
statute the Legislature will probably afford remedy 70, future
cases"