Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1841-04-10
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The Prisoner was brought into Court on Thurs
day, at IL o'clock, NJ. by direction of the Bcncf
TO receive his sentence. Being asked by tho
CHIEF Justice if he had any thing say why
the judgment of the law should be PRONOUNCED
agalns, him, he answered in a low careless tone
II hare nothing to say" The Chief Justice
then proceeded in most feeling manner to ad
dress the Prisoner and concluded-'PETER ROB
INsoN-it considered and adJudged bv the
Court that you be taken hence TO the place from
which you came and be there kept in close con-
fnement until Friday, the 10Th day of April
next, and on that day between the hours of 10 o.
clock and O'Clock, that you be hanged by the
neck until you dead! and may God have mer-
cy on your soul.''
During the delivery Of the sentence, the Pris-
oner did not make the least impression of feeling.
Even al its close, while the most solemn feeling
! pervaded the whole audience, and many were at.
fected even TO tears, he preserved The same cold.
unfeelIng, marble features, which strack all who
saw hun with horror.
The Counsel for the Prisoner informed the
Court that they intended to petition the Chan
celior for wr!: of Error to remove the case to
the Supreme court for its decision upoa the legal
objections taken by them 10 the Indictment; but
rs this IS writ OF grace, not of right. and il
is understood that the Chancellor us Ia consuts
the Supreme Court before allowing ii. thcro APP
pears no reason 10 fear that the just sentence of
the law wall be suspended. The address Of the
Chiet Justice to the prisoner is annexed:
Peter Robinsoa-You stand before this Court
convicted by the verdict of the jury of inc
der OF Abraham Snydam, in the first degree -
lave vou aught to say other than what, by Your
self and by your counsel, you have already said,
why the Court should not proceed 10 pronounce
Judgment upou you.
Prisoner.--l have nothing To say.
The Court resumed--Alter u foil, fair and i'm
partial trial, with jury selected by Yourself
of large number OF your fellowc CT izens, and bv
the aid Of efficient honorable and able counsel. who
have left nothing unsad undone in your be
half which became them, which honorable
men ought have said and done, in your behalf you
have been convicted of the wiliul foul. malicious,
deliberate and prcmedIta'cd murder of Mr. Suy
dam, by Which conviction YOU arc doomed 10 sui
fer the punishncn, Of death.
Mr. Siydam. your ncighhor. your fellow
citizen, md for Ought that know, or has APP
pcared TO the Court on The trial, your benc-
ticor. lie had conveyed 10 You n lot of
land; ho had advanced you money to bu,Id com
rorTauTC uwUiu. c''t',o'. fsauIty
u consequence uf .vhp, no had advano,J
and for the security of the propcr payment to
him of his money, you had furnished hn with IA
bond and mortgage OH that property. With these
securities on his person, and III his possession,
the morning of the 81 of Dccemher, and
have reason To fear, IN pursuance Of previous
rangement made by you with hsn, he left his
home and the bosom Of his family. and entered
your house never 10 return to that home and that
fam lv aiivc--it Is evident thai bu few
ules elapsed after he entered your house. before
YOU cruelty murdered him, and thei robbed your
victim of his money, his watch. AID the papers
which he had about his person; ant there, a, the
bloody scene Of his murder, Won Dig tho unnti
lowed grave; and within The wailsof that build
ing, erected by his money, you sought TO conceal
his mangcd corpse.
Mr.. Suvdam husband, father, well
us Yourself; to him life dear, and perhaps
dearer than IL was to YOU; and his death was
litle expected by him at that awful moment
when YOU killed HIM, l, was Ey you Bot I'M
mindful of those dear and blessed tics which
equally bound him to his home, to his wife and
his chlIdrea-unmindful Of those dear md blessed
ties which bound him to his home, to h $ wife and
his chdrcu-unmndful of The ties which equal
ly bound You and him to socIety-rnDindful of
the relations in which he stood Your neigh
Dor, your friend aud benefactor-:nmIndfnI Of
that tribunal tefore which you a,out 10 send !
YOUR victim, and before which vol would have !
to appear--unmndul of the vengeance Of just
and holy Collaborating that his eve was upon
You then, and would be upon you Trough time
and through eternity, you committed this cold. i
blooded murder.
We do not design to dwell upon ,ie details Of
this awful tragedy; its bloody history has been T
listened to attentivelv by, and is painsi to all
Nothing now remains but pror.unce the +
sentence Of the law. And we only p,1se, Peter
Robinson, 10 warn you against tho illusion ct
INDUCING my hope that you can by any poss IbIl-
itv escape tho vengeance Of that law. If chains.
if bolts and bars,and human ingenuity md watch
fitness can prevent il you can never escape
from the custody Of the law, but tv d.ath. And
we warn YOU against the slightest nope tina,
executive interference will be EXTENDED in vcur
behalf.
The outraged majesty of the law demand
your life, and nothing else will satisfy it, We
only, therefore, your fellow men. ani with the
sympathy due to you as n fellow creature here
pause to commend You 20 Him whose hood alone
wash on, the guilt which rests upoa your ne
yer diving soul. Your blood falling upon the
ground canno. restore the life of him whom YOU
murdered, nor prepare him for that eternity into
which YOU sent him without a warning.
But unlike his sad close Of life. some time is
,,ot, "a orao,ro for thar awful chance