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dwelling thereon, for yourself and your ia
mily. In consequence of what he had adj
vanced TO you, and for the security of the
proper payment to him OF his money, you
had furnished him with bond and mortgage
on that property. With these securities on
his person, and in his possession, on the
morning of the Sd of December, and as we
have reason to fear, in pursuance of pre-
vious arrangement made by you with him, he
left his home and the bosom of his family,
and entered your house never to return to
that home and that family alive. 1t is evil
dent that but few minutes elapsed after he
entered your house, before you cruelty muir
dercd him, and then robbed your victim of
his money, his watch, and the papers which
he had about his person and there, at the
bloody scene of his murder, you dug the un-
hallowed grave; and within the walls of
that building, erected by his money, you
sought to conceal his mangled corpse.
Mr.. Suydam was husband and a father,
as we'll as YOURSELF; to him life was as dear,
and perhaps dearcr than it was to you and
his death was as little expected by him at
that awful moment when you killed him, as
it was by you. But, unmndful of those dear
and blessed ties which bound Inn to his home,
to his wife and his children-unmlndful of the
ties which equally bound you and him to So
clety-unmindful of the relations in which
he stood as your neighbor, your friend, and
bcnefactor-unmindfu of that tribunal be-
fore which you was about to send your victim
and before which you would have to appear
-unmindiul of the vengeance of a just and
holy God-forgetting that his eye was upon
you then, and would be upon you through
time and through eternity, you committed
this cold blooded murder.
We do not design to dwell now upon the
details of this awful tragedy; its bloody his
tory has been listened to attentivey by, and
is painful to us all.
Nothing now remains but to pronounce
the sentence of the law. And we only pause
Peter Robinson, to warn you against the
deluslon of INDUCING any hope that you car
by possibility escape the vengeance of tina
law. If chains, if bolts and bars, and hu.
man ingenuity and watchfulness can proven
it, you can never escape from the custody o
the law, but by death. And we warn yol
; agans, the slightest hope that executive in
reference will he extended in your behalf
The outraged ma jcsty of the law demand
your life, and nothingels will satisfy it. W.
only, therefore, as your fellow men, an,
with the sympathy due to you as fellow
: creature here pause to commend yon to Hin
whose blood alone can wash out the gull
which rests upon your never dying soul
Your blood falling upon the ground canno
restore the life of him whom you murdered
, nor prepare him for that cnternity into whic
: you sent Him without warning.
But unlike his sad close of life, somctim
is allowed you to prepare for that awfu
change which you have shortly to undergo
! We commend you to God. We common
/. you TO that Saviour of men through who's
mediation alone you can hope for forgive
! ness hereafter.
y You cannot intend to assume and idle in
difference to your fate, to the solemn deaf
: you have so soon to undergo, or TO the scent
Of eternal life that you have to pass through
You may affect and Indifference to all this
you may reject the Bible, and the minister
c of Christ, and those consultations which the
IS may seek to offer you.
: But God knows your heart. You ma
e d ceivc men; you may die as the fool dietl
II L... H.. - tho most that you can do. &c
9 cannot deceive God his eye is upon yo
), as it was at that moment when you struC
the fatal blOw--as ii has been ever since
: and as it will be until the moment when Il
1 breath ceases to animate your body-and
&C will fellow you to another world and h
\ wrath will rage against you through the III
5, wasting ages of eternity, if his Justice is n
= satisfied by the atoning blood of his redeem
a ing Son.
lr Hear, now, the sentence of the law -
4 is considered by the Court, that you be tax,
! 10 the Jail from whence you came, and tn
within that Jail, or some place else which II
l. sheriff in his discretion shall decide upon, a
At cording to law, on Friday, the 10th day
> April, between the hours of ten in the NOR
n ing and two in the afternoon, you be hui
Or ny the neck until you are dead, aud may G,
s. have mercy on your soul"
le Here there was scarcely dry eye in I
It. Court. The ladies sobbed audibly, and
IN were deeply affected. The prisoner appca
ut ed to be the only person unmoved that "
+ present. His eye never quailcd. His Il
n scarcely parted, and not another muse
lp moved in his features,
The Judge himself was evidently col
n plctely overcome. In few moments
st said ,'Lct the prisoner be removed from t
u bar
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