The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1833-06-12

murder, that the murderer shall forever
evade the vengeance of the Iaw7 That
his actions wrapped in more than mortal
mystery shall mock at man and his
bonsted ingenuity! That mortal gifted
with immortality shall bow down and
acknowledge the awful majesty of his
brother worm and tremble at the charm
ed homicide But n period to these re-
marks.-We copy from the Republican
Herald these reflections.
The trial of this man, which has been,
SO long the all engrossing subject of
public speculation, and the cause Of such
fervid excitement, has at length ter
minated, and verdict Of acquirtal has
been turned. The Rev. Gentleman has
passed the ordeal of legal trial, and
come forth to the world, we wish we
could say, nnscathed. A jury of his
country has pronounced him innocent
and let the majesty ofthe laws be so far
respected, as TO preserve them from a
buse, and protect him against violence.
But still, there is another tribunal, be-
fore which, Mr.. Avery now appears, on
the judgment of which, he must cast
himself; the tribunal ofihe people; and
the verdict Of their opinion, he cannot
possibly esade. And we are perfectly
satisfied, from what we hear, and from
what we learn from every quarter. that,
in nineteen cases out of twenty that ver-
dict is against him. The long protract-
cd trial, the unprecedented efforts that
have been put forth to produce the ver-
dict, the strange and contradictory. and
in some instances, evidently fakss testi-
mony that has been given in, and the la
bored and eloquent arguments of the
prisoners counsel, have all failed to sa-
tisfy the public mind and produce the
conviction that seems to have actuated
the jury IN making up their decision,
There are many important questions to
be replied to in definite and satisfacto-
ry manner before public opinion can be
changed. Where was E. X. Avery on
the Goth Of December, between the
hours Of 3 and 10 p. Nj. Where is the
man with his gun, and the boy with his
sheep, who saw him on Rhode Island
How came so many persons to have
seen "A man they are confident was Z.
X. Avery, between Bristol and Fall-
River, at the very time Se speuk of,
when no one saw any person they can
say was him, in any other direction
What account is given Of the letters,
which ninety-nine people IN an hundred
believe TO have passed between him and
Sarah Marin Cornell THE people no
more believe that that unfortunate girl
put an end to her existence, than that
she conferred her existence upon herself
originally. For what purpose was she
murdered Evidently to conceal the
fruits of guilt. Who could have had
motive for doing this, but the person ac-
cused of being her seducer? Aud who
did she persist in accusing1 These, and
questions like these, are put, and will
continue TO be put, by the community,
until something more satisfactory shall
appear; nor can Mr.. Avery, guilty, or
innocent expect tn meet a favourable ie-
cepiion in society, until the mystery that
hangs over this dark transaction shall
have been cleared up. We do not pre-
tend to constitute ourselves his judges
nor, do we wish to reverse the decision
of the jury. He has been acquitted and
we are glad the State is not to be saddled
with the enormous expense of another
trial. 1t is believed that, generally
speaking, the verdict has neither disap-
pointed the expectations of the public,
nor changed their minds on the merits
Of the case. If innocent, the God he
processes to worship, hes certainly dealt
with him in a very mysterious way, and,
as, in this case, we most sincerely pity
him--so, we doubt not, the cloud that
now envelopes him will be cleared
away, and his innocence made to APP
pear.-lf guilty we envy not his feelings,
and the worst punishment we can wish
him, is, that he may Ruc, and never he
able to eradicate from his memory, the
name of The unfortunate victim who was
murdered near the hay stack.