The North-Carolina standard., 1841-11-24

only sinner-that you are not the only individual
who has been engaged in this work of crIme and
wretchedness. 1t is difficult believe that one so
young is imbued with sufficient depravity of heart,
connected with the possession of that calculating
vIanY to enable him to design and carry out plot
so complicated, and disastrous tn the peace of
two vlrtuous and extensively connected families.
1t you have accomplices it is my wish and PRAYER
that they may yet be detected and delivered over
to that punishment which outraged humanity and
the aVenging laws demand. -4-,-l----
How painful it is to contemplate the disgrace in
volved 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 up, and
eternity alone can obllerae. Think ofthe parents
who gave you being ;-your father exemplary
mana religious minister. Kneeling night and
morning at the family altar in prayer and praise
your common Maker, how often has he petitioned
Heaven, with the yearning eanestness Of fathers
heart, for blessings upon your head And when
he hoped and expected, he had right to do,
that you would be sola and stay to his declin-
ing years, and smooth with the gentle hand of duty
and affection his passage the tomb,-your conduct
plerces his bosom with the most poignant grief,
will embtter the few remaining years of his ex-
istence, and bring down his gray hairs with sorrow
TO the grave. Think Of the mother who nursed you
upon her lap, who sustained you her breast, and
watched over the weakness and way wardneSs of
your infancy with an anxiety felt only in the ma
ternal breast. Call 10 mind the situation of her
who should be your bosom friend, the wife of your
youth, whose confidence you have so basey abus-
ed,-and your child who will inherit any thing but
honor from its father. Neither are these all the
individuals who feel the ceaseless pangs entaed
by your crime. The more painful because not to be
mitigated repaired, the outraged feelings Of
the family Of Mr.. Brannock. blooming young
girl has been sacrificed by your calculating viany
her hopes in life-Ihose hopes delicatey yet
fondly cherished by a femae-cut off forever );
though still pure in mind, her prospects are bghted
irretrievablv. And this vast concourse of people,
drawn together by the story of your crime, who
have listened to the disclosure made during the in
vestigation Of your case, stands aghast TO think
that their own families-their own daughters and
sisters are liable to be ruined in the same way.
Until the year 1889 the crime of which you
stand convicted was punished with death. 1t was
ranked with arson, and murder, and treason, and
all these unnatural and ferocious which are
evidence ofa depravity of heart unfting the ind-
vidua to live in society. am loss to conceive
the reason that operated upon the legislature to in
duce them to extend the benefit of clergy to the
crime Of bigamy. The man who bares his arm in
the face of heaven and stabs his neighbor to the
heart, forfeits his life TO The offended laws. Your
crime entails upon society amount of misery as
great, and | cannot why the punishment should
be less. What the feelings of all the parties in
compared with the quiet of the grave Your
crime deserves the full punishment provided by
law, and proper regard to the safety Of the COM
munity requires it. It must therefore be severe
and exemplary.