Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-12-07

erS Win It's DRESSING by tomorrow, i
think can remember them without BIZ
terness; but to-day. can not love them
on my soul, 1 can not.
We were 10 have had an execution yes
terday; bat The wretched prisoner avoided
| it by suicide. The gailows had been
erected for several hours. and with cool
re6nement of cruelty. was .hoisted before
the window of the condemned; the hang.
man was all readyto cut the cord; mar
shais paced back and forth, smoking and
whisting; spectators were waiting impa-
tientv to see whether he would Idle
game" Printed circulars had been handed
ABROAD to summon the number of witness
es required by law: You are respect
fully invited to witness the execution of
John G.. Colt.p This bloody insult was
thrust into the handsof some citizens, who
carried hearts under their vests, and they
threw it in tattered fragments To- the dogs
and swine, as more fitting witnesses than
Human beings. 1t was cheering 10 those
| who have faith in human progress, to see
( how large number viewed the subject
in this light But the same spirit that led
the wretched victim 10 murder Adams
was rife among the dense crowd, which
lthronoed the place of execution. They
we're swelling with revenge, and eager
| for blood One man came all the way
from New Hampshire, on purpose to wit
mess the entertainment thereby showing
3himself a likely subject for tire gallows.
whoever he may he. Women deemed
themselves not treated with becoming gal
ilantry, because tickets of admittance were
denied them and think it showed inju-
fdicious partially; for many of them can
be taught murder by as short lesson as
any man, and sustain it by arguments
from scripture, as ably as any theoIogian.
However, they were not admitted to this
edifying exhibition in the great school of
public morals; and bad only the slim
comfort Of standing outside, in keen No.
yember wind, to catch the first toll Of the
bell, which would announce that a human
brother had been sent struggling into etef-
! nifty, by The hand of violence. But while
the multitude stood with open Watches
land strained ears to catch the sound, and
The marshals smoked and Shistled. and
! the hangman walked up and down, wait
ling for his prey, 10 word was brought
that the Grim inal was found dead in his
tbed He had asked one half hour alone
to prepare his mind for departure; and at
1.-The end OF that brief interval. he was
found with dagger thrust in his heart
up to the hilt, and turned round, to make
, immediate death more certain. The It'd
: ings were received without doors. with
3 fierce muLterings of disappointed rage
5 Those assembled as performers and spec
/ tators growled like a hungry bulldog
awhen a bloody bone is ptncked from him.
i The throng beyond the walls were fu.
Vi rious to see him with their own eyes, to
be sure that he was dead. But when the
n lwelcome news met my ear, tremendous
Il load was taken from my heart. had no
e chance TO analrze- right and wrong; for
over all thought and feeling flowed impul-f
sive Joy, that this 8 Christian communi-
n ty Were. cheated of a hanging. Those
Ii who had assembled to commit legaized
y murder, in cold blood, with strange con-
/, fusion of ideas, were unmindful of their
= own guilt, while they talked Of his suicide
y as crime as bad as that for which he
lie was condemned. Ian willing to leave it
a. between him and his God. For myself,
i. would rather have the burden of it on
10 my own soul, than take the guilt of those
er who would have executed a fellow-crea-
v. 1tufe. He was driven toya fearful extrem-
10 lily Of agony and desperation; they made
ut cool, deliberate preparations to take lie.
v. and with inventive cruelty sought to add
he every litter drop that could be added 10
ce the dreadful cup of vengeance. Know.
of ing him to be proud man, they imported
as from Jersey the gallows and rope or
~. II; c. th
RS. der Of Suydam. They had gallow:
of Of their owe, in the prison yard but a!
but the memory of Robinson was execraleC
out more than other criminals. they sent fo
p his gallews, 10 add to the degradation.
m. will not enter into an examination of tn,
comparative merits of the two cases; tho
i shall always believe chat tie murde
are committed by John c. Colt. awful as
ate was, was not premsdiiated, but done IN
der the sudden excitement of violent rage
ds. The question is not as to the degree of hi
sin, but the nature Of that spirit, whicl
nv led to the importation OF. Robinson's gal
lows 10 give al additional pang to dy
,iy- ling fellow moral. Ii iteame not straigh
from the internal pit. then Satan neye
mo tempted the soul of man.
o,9 thrust some of those printed invitation
ia. tare preserved for museums. Specimen
,ior should be kept, as relics of barbarou
age for succeeding generations to wonde
md at They might beshnng up 10 frame
Mr. and the portrait of New leland Chic
a. picking the bones OF an enemy of b
ihe Iiribe. wonld be an appropriate pendant.
Al the same moment that was inform
Led Of the death of The prisoner. / hear
d. that the prison was on Ere. Il was 500
lextinpuished, but the renarkable colnc