Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-11-26

ANTI CAPITAL PUNISHMENT CONVENTION
The oppons Is Of Capital Punishment commenced
tho session Of their General Convention in the
city Of Philade'phia,, on the 12,h inst.
On the first day speech,s were made BY H.
GREEDY Of N. York. R-v. C. e. RuRR, WIN. D.
KELLEY, AID Dr.. H. ). PArrEaspN Of PhiIadel-
phin. .ts7s ~ ast te-s,f
Mr.. Burr narrated the particulars Of an inter.
view with H. G. Green OF Troy, previous TO his
execution, for the murder Of hs wife, In this
interview Green, who was,and had been for years
. member Of the Baptist church, stated that up to
q week previous to The murder,he thought Of such
a crime, was (he supposedly as revolving 10 him as
10 any human being. He has however been
artipe IN the Anti rent agitation, and has been
present disguised as an Indian when blood was
shed and in one instance when life was taken.--
His sense of The sancitv of human life has thus been
greatly impaired and he considered the moral
sanse Of the community greatly weakened. What
use the Anti Capitalists, can make of.his we fail
to see. though it throws a vast burden oil guilt
upon the Tribunals of the State OF New York,
which thus permitted awess assassns to tramPle
on Justice, and murder those they suppose their
enemies, until losing all traces OF humanity
they turned their weapons against their own fam-
lies. What Green meant by moral sense, was uu-
doubtfally the fear Of punishment, which no doub.
long impuniiy, had wholly obliterated. Another
case mentioned to excite sympathy for criminals,
vas that of Samuel Z,pho, "a negro OF feeble IN
islsct no education and in every way but little ell
evated above the brute. This case was clearly
one where executive clemency ought to have inter
posed, to the sparing Of life, aud the protection
alike Of the pi,iable object, from the cares Of life
meet and Of the community against the injury
which he was still capable Of iEficting, yet our
readers viii be surprised to learn, the course pur-
sued towards the IDIOT. Reprieve after reprieve
was granted on the plea that he ras totally un.
prepared to die. The Clergymsu peiitioning, i'm
proving the intervening time to tit him "for the
passs ge.' The death warrant came at last and
Zeohon was "executed, before a select circle of
witnesses of whom il was the duty Of the purse
culing attorney" Mr.. Kelly who related the cir.
cumstances, to be one and he declared that SO
much profanity, indecency and revolving levity as
he was compelled to hear at that execution, he
never head on any other occasion in his Efe." We
give Anti Capitalists all the advantage Ut their
own case and their own words. Was this solemn
mockery Of obtaining the reprives; the hnal exc
cut,on when the executive has the power OF par
don expressly to meet extraordinary cases; or
the levly of "seect CIRCLE. chosen as this GER
iainly must have been from among these who could
thus behave upon the occasion of the death OF a
fellow being, when the most righteous and devoui
men of the city might have been selected; was
all this the fault of the law Mo- u must partly
be laid to tina: very fanatacism which prompts their
own conduct, partly 10 want Of an accurate per-
cspou Of justice and propriety. or else the poPu-
laHty.seeking propensity of the Governor OF Pern-
sylvania aud to a feeling akin TO the murderer's
inthe persons appointed to luAic the penalty of the
Law, and the persons selected to witness the awful
riie-The very feeling which the law is intended
% restrain. AAss sd aoaa lsEa 7es,-.5- +.
Another case was the acqI'al of Carl Pappen-
berg. against whom the must damuable evidence
Of guilt was produced, and who when he heard
the words not guilty exclaimed. How when one
man murder another jury say Mot guilty.
This verdict, surprising alike to the community
and the CRIMINAL, 10 imputed 10 the dislike OF Inc
jury to the law of capital punishment. and this dis
like 10 laid as one argument against the Law. This
care stands precisely thus Anti Capitalists, by
the most strenuous exer,ions, create opposition
10 law IN the heart Of portion Of community
A jury ofths portion deliberate perjure themselves
because the law does not SUIT them ~ which thu
criminal escapes. and then the whole weight o
Of this insane infamy is thrown against the law
Bot we shall proiract tbs article too much ant
must close without lengthy remarks. On the sec
ond day G.. NJ. DALLAS vice President ofthe Uni
ted S,aiss( popularity seeking presided by whom
a speech was made, also by G. N. BURLEIcH
SNoDGRAss, GIsposs, GRIswoK, &. C.BURLEIGH
A series of resolutions ives reported by h. Greel.
aud the Society adjourned to mectm Philadelphia
during the Society week in May neat.
LET FARMERs REMEMBER That in the plen
;,ude Of its wisdom, the State lof Detroit y saw Fl
To terminate the Central railroad about three ourh
Of mile from The river. That the charges OF cart
ing -four from tho Depot to the dock aud from the
dock to the vessel is such to lessen the price o
wheat in this place from 2 TO CENTS per bushel