Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1843-05-12
WHOLE NO. l3o.

LAw.-ln the year 1850. Mrs Murphy
appeared before the Lord Mayor Of London,
accused of stealing cats, aud skinnpo them
alive, Qhe skins being considered in GRADE
much more valuable if taken off the cats when
living than when dead. The facts were prov.
ed by many Of her neigbors, who had seen
the cats crawling about without skins. TWAS
stated by the prosecutor, that if the skins
were Of value to the prisoner, they must be al
so TO the owners Of the cats, therefore the
stealing mus, be felony. l, was decided that
if it could be proved that the prisoner stole
Gully the skins, it wolld be felony but as
by the evidence she stole the cats alive. The
law cannot reach her, she must be discharged.
for She has committed no crime.
AT the Spring Asslzes 1881, in the west Of
Eagland, woman was tried for stealing
paia Of black silk stockings, which was clear
!y proved, and the stockings found in her pos
session-the Judge however, by cross exami-
nation, found they were t,vo odd stockings, and
directed the jury to acquit her, as TWO stock
lnos do not make pair.
Abraham Thornton was indicted for the
murder OF his own son-the facts were prov
ed under the most aggravatng circumstances.
He had, however, sufficient money to fee one
OF those lawyers called rogues fri,nd, who
saved him from the well merted gallows.-
The indictment was for the murder of his own
son John Fhorn,on. The lawyer produced
the Bap,isma Register, which proved that the
victim was baptised Jonathan not Johnnie
did no, therefore murder John, and was acqnit-
ted Of the crime altogether: killing Jonathan
not being murder.
The facility of escaping punishment, is the
surest encouragement Of crime.
The Wings down to and during the
memorable ''hard cider" campaign of
1910. insisted that i, was the 'dcstruc-
tive" measures Of locofocoism, and of Mr..
Van Buren's administration, which bro't
the pecuniary difficulties upon the country;
and that to his election was to be ascrbed
all the evils. pecuniary and political, that
had been suffered since the memorable
period of initiation, and consequent reac-
ton. MI. Clay, however, in recent
speech, ascribes it all to another cause.
viz: the ueto po,cer. Had there been
no VETO" (said Mr.. Clay, in his recent
speech at Memphis,) "there would have
been no prevention Of the charter Of
national bank-no removal Of the depos-
ites--no treasury circular-no multiplica-
ton of States banks-no initiation of paper
currency-no stimulating of excessive en-.
terprises and bad specualons no conse-
quent explosion. and the universal ruin
which overspread our noble land. Of
course, as Mr.. Van Buren, never in,erpo-
sed the veto, these evils are no longer to
be ascribed to him. Mr.. Clay even ac-
quits him by his own position. All re-
aecting men know that the cause of de-
preston and pecuniary suffering lie far
beyond the measures of any admnis,ra-
ton, and that they we're the natural result
of efforts and corrupt combinations which
Mr.. Van Buren, sought to arrest ;sand none
know better than Mr. Clay that they are
no more to be ascribed to the exercise Of
the veto power than they are to Mr.. Van
Buren's omission to exercise that power.