The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1841-09-03
lighting in their damnlng deeds of human

IN the land aye, in this land of enlight
eminent, liberty, and law And Justic
must otlener overtake it, or we shall non
Of us feel secure in our daily percgrina
tons, unless fortified with four pistols,
sword cane and bottle of brandy. Tn
ncarnate iiend stalks forth in the glare O
day, and bares his bloody arm in the yer,
centre of society unnoiiced and unpunsh
ed. We can trace his footsteps from tht
castles Of the rich to the novels of tn,
poor. We find among his victims no
onl Y the stoutcst Of the stout and the
worthiest of the worthy, but poor, help
less, innocent females, whom none Blu
an cXiled monster from the Internal re-
gions could ever think of harming. Yes
my friends, we see all this-and where
ask, is that Mr.. William Wiley, whom
they say 50 much about
My triends--Ilobokcn has lately been
the theatre Of scene too melancholy fol
the mind TO mediate upon. A few days
since, the calm waters of the Hudson cast
from their silyery bed the body of a
young, beautiful, and lovely creature of
the girl genus, upon which was written in
letters of purple, ".N,Tder most fom."
Like damaged pearl cast up from the
bosom ofthe ocean upon the barren beach,
the soul case Of this terrestrial angel lay,
of Wednesday afternoon, upon the
wave-washed shore, an awful spectacle
to behold, and an appalling testimony of
that diabolcal spirit which so often mani
tests itself among the depravcd subjects
of lust, liquor, love and lucrc. Who did
the deed Aye, that's the question.
The murderer may yet escape the ven
geance Of the law, while Justice, with
her undeclsive scales, is weighing out the
golden bride. Oh, you vagabond of hell
whoever You may be that committed
the act Il intend that the thunderbolts
Of my eloqueuce and the lightnings Of
my wrath shall play around your polluted
tabernacle of depravity; and heaven grant
that the words which | am about to utter
may, some time or other, pierce through
your heart like shot through a single,
and cause the sap Of repentance TO cXude
approximately from the aperture. You
have, in the absence of God, and in the
presence of Satan, rudely and hear,lessly
plucked beautiful blossom from its ma
tive bower, and trodden it under foot as a
thing of no more consequence than
toadstool in a barn yard.-The parent
vine now mourns its loss, and droops
beneath the frosts of mental anguish !;
and the dewy tears of public sympathy
that fall on every side, can neither restore
the persisted flower, nor stay the blight
that has fastened itself upon the maternal
stem. How could you have the cold
brutality to send helpless, unsuspeciing
girl, without moment Of preparation,
into the presence Of her Maker with all
her imperleclions on her head (if aught
of imperfectiOn could be found in being
so seemingly pure how could you so
far become the master of your own con-
science as to push her from the precipice
of life into deaths turbd wave, at that
very season when the tares of human
error are beginning to abound with the
wheat of good motives, and ere the harry
est Of experience and wisdom has gather
ed the one into the gamer and cast the
other to the winds of heaven Oh, think
of the sorrow, the suffering aud the grief
that You have, by this rash deed, brought
into the homes Of the friends, relatives
and acquaintance of your murdered vic
tim! Go now, in a moment of sober re-
Election, and mediate over the torn turf
that hides her from your eyes ponder
over the sacrifice you have committed
then turn your soul inside out and see
how much misery, fear and horror you
might have saved yourself, by letting her
live, as she had perfect right to so,
amid the sweets and the pleasures of the
world, and, perhaps, prove moral as
we'll as physical ornament in the gayes
parlor of society. But there she lies, il
the protecting grayc-bcyond the reacl
of all future mortal injury. The worm!
have taken possession of her bewitchin!
; corporal charms, and the jewels tina
decked her immortal soul are treasured
: up forever in heaven. Go, thou hcartles
; homicide, and groan beneath the burden
of guilt that presses upon thy bosom
The moose of the gallows thou mayes
possibly escape; but remember that jus
1 tce must, shall, and will overtake thee
: if not in this world of procrastination an
careless supinencss, it surely will beCor
$ thou hast travelled three quarters Of
D mile into the empire of eternity. S
s mote it be