Litchfield enquirer., 1845-11-06
SENTENCE OF POTTER.

peated blows with deadly weapon taken the life of Lucius P. Osborn.
 On your trial, you have been assisted by able and learned counsel of your own seection-and you have had the benefit of all that their learning and talents could accomplish in your behalf. After a long, careful and deliberate examination of your cause, an intelligent and highly respecta- ble jury of your country has pronounced you guilty of the offence charged in the indictment. And that verdict has received the entire appreciation of the Court.
 The offence of which you have been thus con- victed, as it appeared from the evidence adduced upon your trial and from your own confession, Is one almost unexampled in the history ot crimes in I our country. The victim whom your hand so sud- denly hurried to another world was your friend - person who had done you no injury-and given you offence.
 l The only motive assigned for the act was a de- sre on your part to secure to yourself the possess sion of his watch, which he had previously lent 10 you, and to collect from his hard earnings the a. mount of small note, which you had forged a. gainst him.
 It seems hardly credible that, for an inducement 1 so insignificant, crime attended with many aggravating circumstances could have been com I mitted by person, brought up and educated 1 you have been-that for such cause, you could deliberately plan meeting with your friend in the silence and darkness of the night-and there in- fict upon him that brutal violence by means of l which he fell.
 l So great was the cruelty of the act. that your counsel on your trial urged 1t to the jury as evi- dence of an insane mind And if 1t fails to prove insanity, it cannot fail to evince most amenahle departure from those paths of virtue and morality, l in which from childhood to manhood you were trained up by your excellent and afectionate pa- rents.
 Had You like some others been brought up in ig- norance and vice-surroundcd by evil examples 1 and made familiar with crime, some palliation might be urged for your ofence-but such not your lot in life; you have had the advantages of moral, religious instruction-kind friends to watch l over and guide your steps-and every opportunity l requisite to enable you to become reputable and useful member of society. Not satisfied with the sacrifice oi single victim you have sought 10 involve others who were inno- cent in your guilt. under the vain expectation, that by falsely charging them with the crime, you could screen yourself from merited punishment. But forbear to dwell upon the circumstances attending your crime. recital can be no other wise than painful to you-to the Court-and to all who hear me.
 For the crime of which you have been convicted, the laws of your country have de clared that your life IS forfeited The object of those laws is not vengeance, but security for the lives of the other members of the community. It is that all who are abroad by day or by night. may feel that they are shielded by those laws from the violence of the ! assasSin-that others by your fate may be warned ot the danger of the course which you have pursue ed.
 Those laws require that your days should be num- bered. From this world and all its allurenents you have now, Il erefore, little more to expect in any event, and under any circumst ances.
 Let me eXhort You to improve the bI ief space al.
 otted to you in preparing yourself to meet your fi nal Judge, and hear from him a sentence infinitely more important, than any which can be pronoun- ced by any human tribunal.
 It only remains for us to discharge the principal duty imposed upon uS-that of pronuuncine the awful sentence of the law-it is-That you An- drew P. Potter, be taken from this place to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, and that on the third Monday of July next, between the hours of nine o. clock in the forenoon, and three o'clock in the al- ternoon, you be hanged by the neck until you are dead, and may Cop have mercy on your soul
 Whdt they hdve tn OhiO.-The Cincinnati Att
 as rejoicing at the recent victory in Ohio, says, in this result and by previous victories, they have
 A Whig Governor!
 A Whig Senate !!
 A Whig House of Representatives r.!
 A Whig Auditor of State!!!! A Whig Treasurer ]! IT! A Whig Secretary of State !!!!.! A Whig Board of Public Works ]! HI! And asks smay not rejoice at this result, un. der all the discCuragng circumstances attending the contest !''
 Certainly you may rejoice, and the Whies of the Union wll honor ard applaud their brethren of Ohio, for the encOird g6neent they have given to the cause. and the noble example they have set fur Wings everywhere.
 0C-The Rev. Dr. Beasley, formerly Provost of the University of Penns,lvani died at his resi- dence in Elzabethtown, N J., on Saturday after- noon, in the 6sth year of his age.
 The N. Y. Times says that recently, in tearing down an old building in the lower part of the City, portions oi human skeleton were found buried in the cellar-and then relates the following incident About the year 1928, the Hon. John Lansing of AL bany, Ex- Chancellor of the State, and member of the Convention that framed the Constitution of the United States, left his boarding house in the upper part of the City to visit friend, (Mr Ray we be-
 ieve,) who resided in Broadway, near the Battery. It was about dusk. in the fall of the year. He nev- CT reached Mr. Ray's and from that day to this his fate has been a mystery. He was an old man. and beside his gold watch, had considerable money with him.
 TENNEssEE.-Hon. Hopkins L. Turney, former ly of the House, has finally been chossn U. & Sen- ator, from Tennessee, in place of Hon. Ephraim H. Foster. The vote on the 18th, Con the IA ball. lot, we believe.) stood
 H. L. Turney--.-53. Wm c. Dunlap..--46 The Whigs all voted for Turney, who is vehement ly accused by the majority of his party of having barganed with them to secure his election over A. o. P. Nicholson, the relative and confdant of Polk The excitement in Nashville was very great, and
 the debates and proceedings in the Legislature very d,sorderly. The Loco-Foco speakers insinuated all manner of hard things against the Senator elect The Wings reioiced greatly over the result-with what reason remains to be seen.
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