Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1842-05-28


tees we cannot now tell--but certain il is
that in that condition, you, upon whom she
had divine right to call fol the tenderest
attentions and sympathies, and protection
at the very hour covered round about with
the thickest garb Of hypocrisy, were car
rying your secret and dreadful purpose in
to execution. Could the Prince Of Dark
ness assume more horrible and revolving
shape, than that Of a husband who under
pretence Of affection and tenderness for
his sick and feeblee wife, could administer
to her substance, the effect OF which
would be tear and lacerate her frail body,
until her soul should flee from its mangled
tabernacle, and seek resting place in the
bosom Of its God!
"Had you struck dagger to her heart,
or cleft her brain, or slain her outright by
any other quick and sudden means, at least,
energetic in your cruelty--but alas! the
horrible act has not that negative pallation;
and if you have left in your bosom one feel
ing of humanity, what must be the anguish
Of your soul, apart from any consciousness
of guilt, when you reflect that in order to
! ascertain the means used to execute your
fell purposef the body of that poor woman
was exposed the gaze Of strangers, and the
horrible and revolving dissecting knife, and
now lies buried, in its mangled state; not
where she desired It to be, but mingling its
dust with stranger dust.
| "By that foul deed you have outraged all
the better feelings Of human nature--out-
ragged the religion you professed--outraged
the laws both of God and man; and our
law now demands the forfeit Of your life
I CO.. r. g.
the Almighty-but for conservation, pre-
vention and example.
i 81 have said this much not to add one
throe to the bitter anguish of your remorse,
but to bring you to the reflection, that in
consequence Of your crimes your days have
been numbeied by the law, and that their
short remnant must be spent IN that gloomy
twilight which intervenes between the
light Of life, and the darkness OF death.
And let me beseech you for your souls
sake, to cast from you any lingering hope
of hnman interference; the moral enormi.
ty Of your guilt, effectually closes that ve-
nue. OF escape. Mankind may pity, and in
their hearts forgive you, bat God alone can
effectualy pardon your great crime. We
are taught in His revelations to us, that no
matter how foully wicked you may have
been, how you may have disgraced the re-.
ligion you protested, how you may have
disregarded, violated, nay, secuted all law
human and divine, that you may still ap.
proach Him through the sacrifcial blood OF
his Son. and be for fitted that temple not
made with hands, eternal in the Heavens.
And as you value your souls salvation,
beseech you to devote the short remnant
Of your days to the preparation to meet
that Great Judge, who judgeth not as man
judgeth, but in mercy, love and purity.
"And now when have spoken in be-
coming terms Of appreciation Of the unit.
ring patience Of the jury; the ability, zeal
and magnanimity of the counsel for the
prosecution, and the learning, ability and
vigilance Of your counsel: all that remains
for me to do is to pronounce the awful SEN
tence OF the law, which is,
"That you be taken hence to the Jail Of
| the county and there safely kept until Fri
day.. the 9Th day Of July next, whence you
will be taken to the usual place OF execu-
ton and there be hanged by the neck until
you be dead. And may the lord have mer-
cy on your SOUL"