The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1841-11-20

Gu Soihe WeehS ago. VII the llrSt page
may be found the sentence Of Boiling the
infamous actor in the case. The follow
ing are the remarks of the Judge, before
pronouncing the sentence.
There is scarcely any duty more pain
ful ever devolved upon an idividual than
that which falls to the lot of judicial Of
ficer IN apPorloning the punishment
which the law awards to convicted Grim
lnal. In the present case and under the pre-
sent circumstances it becomes doubly so,
on account of your youth and the atroc-
ty of the crime of which you stand con-
victed.-You are yet very young man
in that period of life when we natural
ly look for the more ingenious feelings
and honorable sentiments of our nature to
prevail; yet the evidence agains. you, res
pectlng the recent neiarious transactions
of your life discloses tissue of deception
unparalleled by any case ever before
known in the Judiciary Of North Caro-
lima.
Every circumstance connected with
your life, and with your recent offence is
an aggravatlon of your crime. Your pa
rentage, not only highly respectable, but
your father a Minister of the Gospel,
blameless in his social relations and in
his walk before the world; yourself NOV
ing III circle far from the lowest in Socl-
ETY.; with wife who looked to you with
all woman's confidence for love and
protection, and tender child whom it
was your province to sustain and cherish
and fit for an honorable station in society,
you had the daring effrontery to go but
short distance into a neighboring coun-
ty, pass yourself in society there under
another name, persevere in your decep-
ton until you ingraliated yourself into
the good graces OF an unsuspecting fami-
ly, secure the affection of "a young and in.
noccnt girl, and consummate a second
marriage! 1t has been said by some wri-
ter that truth is stranger than fiction, and
the case before me proves the correctness
OF the remark. Romances and novels fur
nish relations similar for marvellousness
and atrocity; but such realities have new
or before met with in all the observations
ef my life. Human villany, in the vari-
Gus shades i'll which it has been painted
to our view, has hardly furnished a paral-
lei to this.
1t is my solemn conviction that you
are not the onl y individual who has been
engaged in this work of crime and wretch
edness. II is difficult to believe that one
SO young is imbued with sufficient depra-
witty Of heart, connected with the possess
sion of that calculating villany to enable
him to design and carry out a plot so COM
plicated, and SO disastrous to the peace of
two virtuous and extensively connected
families. If you have accomplces, it is
my wish and prayer that they may yet be
detected and delivered over to that pun
lshment which outraged humanity and
the avenging laws demand.
How painful it is to contemplate the
disgrace involved, and the peace of mind
destroyed by your criminal conduct.
You have inflicted wounds too deep for
the hand Of time to cure; caused misery
which nothing but the grave can cover up,
and eternity alone can obliterate. Think
of the parents who gave you being
your father an exemplary mana reli-
glous minister. Kneeling night and morn
ing at the family altar in prayer and praise
to your common Maker, how often has
he petilioned heaven, with the warming
earnestness of fathers heart, for bles-
sings upon your head. And when he
hoped and expected, as he had right to
do, that you would be solace and stay
TO his declining years, and smooth with
the gentle hand of duty and affection his
passage to the tomb--your conduct pier
ces his bosom with the most poignant
grief, will embitter the few remaining
years of his existence, and bring down
his gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Think of that mother who nursed you
upon her lap, who sustained you at her
breast and watched over the weakness
and weywardness of your infancy with
an anxiety felt only IN the maternal breast.
Call to mind the situation of her who
should be your bosom friend, the wife of
your youth, whose confidence you have
SO basely abused-and your child who
will inherit any thing but honor from its
father. Neither are these all the indi-
viGuals who feel the ceaseless pangs en-
tailed by your crime.
The more painful, because not to BIZ
mitgated or repaired, are the outraged
feelings of the family of Mr.. Brannock
A blooming young girl has been sacrf-
ced by your calculating villany; her
hopes SO delicately, yet so fondly cher
ished by female-cut off forever; though
still pure in mind, her prospects are
blighted irretrievably. And this vast
concourse Of people, drawn together by
the story of your crime, who have listen
ed to the disclosures made during the in
vestigation of your case, stand aghast to
think that their own famlies-their own
daughters and sisters-are liable to be-