Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1843-01-04

tCu w TIC IIIf'IIS ANibt '"~
ever he may labor. TO provide Tor ms sup
port, and 10 mnkc sOm!r rcHs na lc conf
peusatisD for he lime he loses from mo
support of his family. by thus devoiinS
himself tn he scsvicr ui temperance
joins ErLToa O'NEALL,
President Stale Tmperdnce Society.
Dec. 18Th, 1882.
WIes F,eeman.-We understand that the
Sheriff Of tins District has received The order
for the execution Of this unfortunate man, which
is TO take place on Friday the 18th day Of Fo
bruary next, should he net be rcspiied or par
doned by His Excc!lcncy Governor Hummond.
Of which there Is, we think. no hope.
Freeman. was Ut one time. 40 industrious,
sober man., who was we'll respected by his
neishbors, an indulgen, husband, and kind pm.
rent: but that fell destroyer. .AlchoI, lie q few
short years. reduced him to a level with tho
brute hs industry fed, his frs-side became
hateful. and The demon laid violent hands on
him. and caused HIM tn be the murderer of hcr
whom he had pligh,ed his vows TO cherish;
since the commitial Of tie crime. "a lapse Of
about FIVE years. he has been m oltcast from
society, u fugitive from justice. n vagabori on
the earth. and at last has to eIpia,e for his
crime on the fatal tree. Beware, Oh 70 mod.
crate drinkers. ere it is too late.
We copy Judge Earle'u Address to Wiley
freeman from the Temperance Advocate.
Wiley FrsemGa:-Tne days that YOU
have To live are now mustered. What
has heretofore becn delivered M the opin-
lou OF this Courr, on the motion made in
your behalf. has already appraised you Of
The doom tina, awaits you. Having prn-
sided Cd your trial below. | have still shs
painful duty To perform Of ~pronouncing
the final judgment of the law.
Before | proceed to this last Office IN
pursuance Of the ancient and c0mmerda-
BILE usage Of this Court, | would fain ad-
dress 10 you some considerations and re-
Elections, which The occasion prompts, aud
which may serve to awaken you to q be-
coming sens. Of t.,e g'rat crime you have
committed. and TO The awful condition TO
which IL haa reduced you. Whatever
may have been the alternative fears Of
punishment. and hopes Of escape, which
have heretofore mingled in your bosom,
10 distract i, with anxiety. they nave now
ceased 10 contend for tue mastery, and
have equally given place to the appalling
certainty which crushe, hope and converts
apprehension To despair. Deatb. when
it occurs as the natural close of our NOR
tai existence, even after a well-spent life.
is rarely Il welcome event. But 10 tho
v%irtuous and the upright, whose retrospect
OF The past furnishes no record OF guilt,
and who may look forward to the future,
with the consultations Of hope. who sink
down TO rest amidst the sympathy OF
fricuds and the rcspcct'of the world, death
is Invested OF much that sharpens the poig-
nancy Of its sting. But the fate which
awaits you. has no such alleviatious.
Your latter end does not approach, in
The f~ulluess of time, and tho maturity Of
honorcd years, under the cheering inlucn-
ces which might diyest il Of its tcrrors;
but is prccipita,ed by an act. which clothes
them ID two fold mnlign;ty: IN act which
hns STABBED yn,r hands-uith blood, and
has steeped your soul in irrcmediable guilt:
which has drawn from your side, abe
who might have sustained YOU with
their couuleuance and synpan.r in aoy
scene Of vir,uous suffering: which sen,
you forth a wandering ou,-cast from .he
scenes Of your youth, and the home OF
your manhood, and has even brought you
back, 10 be offered up a victim TO the Law
which yon have violated. amidst the exe-
of the community whose feelings
you have outraged.
When man encounters lis brother man.
ia those fearful conflicts which evil pas.
sions prompt. and blood is shed in equal
combat, and on jus, provocation, We feel
thu. the slayer is moi a nj subject for pun
Even when revenge nerves tho
murderous arm against his enemy and his
equal, from real or faucied injury. there 10
TO be found some pallialing circum-
stance, which prevents the crime from be-
ing uucrable dcres,able, and makes US pity
whilst we must condcmE. But you have
encountered NJ equal liz open con1icI:
You have moi slain your enemy for any
real or fancied injury. You have raised
YOU, fatal arm against a !ceblc and unpro-
woman, against the wife Of your
the mother Of your children! whom
YOU had vowed TO love, 10 cherish. aud pro-
4, was from no sudden impulse of
an anger or resentment. justly excited up
a recent or present provocation, but
10 have been The settled purpose OF
a heart. from which she aad already been
expelled. You crcPs upon her stealshily.
Wills, sitting on the threshold Of her W
home. which was no longer yours, when
there was no eye to watch. and no arm to
save. The hands, which had once minis
tered to your vans, provided fer your
comfort. which had tended you in sick
ness and in health, were held up 10 fruit
less supplica,ion. The voice that had Of
ten addressed yuu in accents Of affection,
TO which your ow responded. similar Ian
auaye, was raised in one p%iteous. hut I'M
needed cry for mercy. The eyes, which
once beamed upon you with looks Of kind
ness the first token Of reciprocal regard,
-. ,o, utfh ono Wild