Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1845-11-05
TO THE PUBLlC-READ Tread !!
JouN. alias JAck RlonT.

This fellow, after lurking abou, our vii
lage for several weeks, left on last Tues
day evening, taking with him The unlor
,unaie and degraded victim of his seduc
lion.
lie came from Knoxville. Tennessee,
where he has young wife now living,
and suffering the uuspeakahle panss OF his
spent the summer at the Grayson Sulphur
Springs. We understand; he so ,ie:ine
since, abandoned his wife and lived with
common;prosti,u,e in Knoxville. II is
understood lha, he is professional gambler
and black leg.
The poor and infatuated young girl,
whom this destroyer has thus made the
Jupe Of his miserable bribes and articles,
and failhess promises, is Margaret +.
Oury, the daughter of Thomas Oury. of
this villhse, aud about ! 5 or l6 wears of
ssn. We have understood they are ma
king their way towards Lynrhburg or
Richmond, and will probably change
their course and pass through Franklin
Couury (; aud the State of North Carolina
to the South. They represent that they
were married in this place, a statement
which is utterly false. They are travelling
in two horse baroncll, with cover to il,
driven by likely mulatto man.
Thus whilst this uuprincipled, unfee
ling. and depraved wretch. is lacerains
The heart Of an innocent and conidins
wife, and robbiug her home, which he had
LII l,,,realF Tho .ittur
render virIuous ami happy, in wtetched-
ness, sorrow, and disgracei he is ronduc-
ting Young. credulpus, unconscious girl,
from her parental roof, 10 linger out
living death in the charnal house pros
titution.
Thus has he invaded. with pestilence,
the domestic hearth. and 'nfn from her
sacred domicii, the favorile daughter Of "a
defenceless and discunsolate mother BY
This a,rocity, he has filed her house with
desolaliou, and slamepd everlasting inlamy
on her family, by The ineifabIe ruin Of her
daughter. A short time since. Ibis easth
could not reveal lovelicr vision; for this
tender and hapless giil. 5n, recently gilt
tered in the charms of youth, and was
robed in chastity. BuI behold her now
the loathsome victim fan adulerous bed;
fostering in the very infection Of her rime,
brought about by her unmanly, meIciIess
and inhuman seducer. II is impossible
10 depict the turpi,ude of the scducer. We
know of no character so vile, so delestahe.
He is the ylest ofrobbers, for he plumbers
happiness the wors, Of murderers, for he
murders innocence; his appe,ies are oflhe
brute, his arts Of the demon; the heart of
the child. and the course ofthe parent are
the foundations Of the altar which he
rears to lust whose fires are the fires Of
hell, and whose Incense is the agony Of
virtue
We have made this painful exposure.
from sense Of duty, not only 10 the public
press, but TO The community whose virtn
Gus sentiments have been outraged by The
commission of the crime. The citizens
hadspo knowledge Of it uulil i. has trans
pired. But they do moi intend that such
Infamous conduct shall escape their sever
est censure and they desire that the per-
petralors shall be held up 10 the public
gaze, in The lurdsglare Of bis deteslable
vice.
Let this be warning TO all not TO ad-
mil into their society. or 10 countenance a
strollins vaeaboud, who exhibits no pass
port, except tba, Of professional black
leg and debaucnee.
We wish the papers of Lynchburg,
Richmond, DanviIIe, and every where
else in Virginia, N. Carolina aud Tennes-
see, to insert this notice in their columns.
lMoun,ain.Whig.
BY law Of the Republic of Texas.
1924 acres of laud are set apart in each
county, fsrlh support Of primary schools,
and 220 200 acres for The endnwment Of