The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-06-19

desperate frmness, and left him with tears which
? have no doubthe would have shared under 9th
Ter circumstances. What could do farther? |
appealed again TO the first principal, but he spur
/, ned me cool SMILE fewto The seconds and
entreated them on any terms TO adjust the mat
ter and save the shedding of blood. But they
had already measured the ground, and were rea-
dy TO place the principals. Gentlemen, said [,
the blood Of this dreadful deed be upon your
own souls. have acquitted myself of it, |
then proceeded from the area towards my horse.
What were my emotions as | turned away in
despair. 'What! thought |, must the duel pro-
Iceed? Is there no eXpedjent TO prevent it? In
a few minutes one or both of these men may be
in eternity, accursed forever with blood guiltness!
Can not pluck them as brands from the burn
ling? My spirit was in tumut of anxiety; in
moment, and just as the principals were taking
their positions, | was again upon the ground.
Standing on the line between them | exclaimed,
in the name of Cod adure you to stop this
murderous work 1t must not, it cannot proceed
-'Knock him down. cried the eldest duelist,
with fearful mprecation. Sir exclaimed the
younger, appreciate your motives but demand
of you to interfere no more with our arrange
monts' The seconds seized me by the arms
and compelled me to retire. But warned them
at every STEP Never before did feel so Deep
ly the value and hazard of the soul. My remarks
were without effect, except on one of the friends
of the younger principal This is a horrible
place, said he, Il cannot endure it,, and he turn
ed away with me from the scene.
Now for it, cried one of the seconds, as they
returned. Take your place. Shudderingly II
fastened my pace to escape the result.
'One-two'--and the next sound was lost in
the explosion oftho pistols! 'Oh God shriekedI
voice of agony! turned around The young
er principal with his hand to his face, skreked
again, quivered and fell to the ground! Irush-
ed TO him. With one hand he clung to the earth,
the fingers penetrating the sod while with the
other, he grasped his left jaw, which was shat
tered with a horrid wound. Turned with faint
ness from the sight The charge had passed
through the left side of his mouth crossing The
teeth, severng the jugular vein passing out at
the back part Of the head, laying open entirely
one side of the face and neck In this ghastIy
wound had he fixed his grasp with tenacity
which could notbo moved. Bleeding profusely,
and convulsed with agony, he lay for several
minutes the most frightul spectacle had ever
witnessed. The countenance of the spectators
expressed conscious relief when il was announ-
ced by the surgeon that death had ended the
scene. Meanwhile the murderer and his party
had left the ground.
One Of the company was despatched on my
horse TO communicate the dreadful intelligence |
to the family. The dead young man was Glen
sed Of his blood, and born Immediately TO his car
rage accompanied it. 1t stopped before
small but elegant house. The driver ran TO the |
door and raped. An elderly lady opened it,
with frantic agitation, at the instant when we
were lifting the ghastiy remains from the carri-
age. She gaZed for a moment as if thunder
struck, and fell faintng in the doorway. A SER
want took her into the parlor, and as we passed
with the corpse into rear room, observed her
extended on a sofa, pale as her hapess son.
We placed the corpse on a table, with the stiff
tened hand still grasping the wound when
young lady, neatly attired in white, and with
face delicatey beautiful rushed frantically into
the room and threw her arms around it, weeping
with uncomfortable emotion, and exclaiming with
an agony Of feeling My brother! my dear BROTH
er! Can it be--O, can it be? The attendants
tore her away. shall never forget the look of
utter wretchedness she wore as they led her away
her eyes dissolved in tears, and her bosom
stained with her brothers. blood.
The unfortunate young man was of New En-
gland origin. He settled in the town of N,
where his business had prospered so we'll that he
had invited his mother and sister to reside with G
him. His home, endearod with gentleness and 5
ove, and every temporal comfort, was a scene of L
lnalloyed happiness, but IN an evil hour he had c
Welded to local and absurd prejudice--a SEN
ment of honor falsely so called, which his edu- |
,ation should have taught him 10 despIse. He !
was less excusable than his malicious murderer, i
or he had more light and better sentiments. +
This one step had ruined him and his happy fam
ly. He was inferred the next day with the re-
yrets of the whole community.
His poor mother never left the house until she o
vas carried to her grave, to be laid by the side 10
If her son. She died after delerious fever of n
wo weeks duration, throughout which she ceas- "
ID not to implore the attendants, with tears to n
preserve her hapless son from the hands of the -
ssassins, who she imagined, kept him concealed
Or their murderous purpose. His sister still lives
,ut poor and broken hearted. Her beauty and
nerges have been wasted by sorrow; and she :,
8 dependant on others for her daily bread. v
| have heard some uncertain reports of his an
ngonist, the most probable of which is, that he
led three years after, of the yellow fever. at y,
Jew Orleans, raging with the horrors of remorse. \
uch was the local estimation Of this bloody deed, .
hat scarcely an effort was made to bring him to q
lstice. Alas, for the influence of fashionable
pinion! II can silence by its dictates the laws -
f man and God--can exalt murder 10 the glory oa
chivary. ~ =.
BosroN, Mass, Oct. 1S43. - -
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