New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-11-13
,u,,-Cnp,,n, Punishment Convention.
ra,,.rial correspondence.
tWIINIIW W.T.
p,u,Apstr,uA. "Wednesday. Nov. IL,

,cncral Convention OF the opponents OF the Ie'
,,al destruction ot Human Life has been called TO
assemble herr, today, preliminary to which Stafe
Convention was held throughout yesterday Con
s,i,utjcu adopted and officers ot State Society aP
r,;u,ca Arriving here in the afternoon attended
the evening meeting. and was surprised 10 una ~
I.,,,,, nm asscmblasc Tho meeting IL held IN 'he
sr,c;cus Saloon Of the Chinese Museum wh'ch 's
.,d +, seat. and will certainly hold three Thousand
r,rscns When shall we have such nan IN
T,u..yorh where i, is surely needed From the
stand this Hall Appeared nearly ms full as 1t could
M .ud could hardly have held five hundred persons
morn. Considering that this was but preliminary
meeting with no speakers announced and IL"
STRANGERS present. think i, cvinccs deep and per-
vadinc in,crcs, in the subject discussed
r,nr addresses were made 10 the audience sue
ccsSivcN by H. GREELEY Of Ncw-for Rev = 7
HrRw WM. D. NELLY and DR.. II. :, PATTERSON
of This CITY. With the arguments adduced VIII
mn, trouble the reader, as do not know that any
thing very novel was or could be adduced' Du'
certain facts were set forth in two OF the sPcecee
which seem TO ME calculated 10 interest oo'n opp
ucu,s and advocates of the DeathP Penalty and tnesc
shall cndcavor 10 rccollect and submit LOT Fc''cc'
ton.
Mr.. Burr now of this City, has I'LL recently resd
ed in Troy. n Y. and there sought oui Henry "
Green the a,rocous murderer OF his WIFE, Us nc ID!
,,icr sentence of death and heard what he had to
cav, in psllia;ion of bis awful crime. Green had
hrcn for wears member of Christian church the
Baptist rather noted for the strictness OF It's watch
frpa
stain and of rs much promise as that OF any young
man in his ncighborhood. He declared TO Mr. Burr
that. up 10 the week before his horrible deed was
consummaicd. the thought OF murder was as strange
and rs revolving his mind as II could be 10 'hal o
any other human being. He said, however, that ne
had been prominent in the AntRcnt agitation hau
been active and often in disguise an Indian; had
thus been an eyewitness not an actual partcipa
tor in one or ,o arays in which blood was shed ana
in one ofwhch life was sacrificed; and his reverence
for the sanc,itv life his horror oboodshed had thus
been greatly impaired and he considered the moral
sentimen, of the community in which he lived great
lv relaxed and weakened thereby-Let this stale
ment sink deep into the hearts of all who con!em-
plate or Justify the resort to violence and bloodshcd
for the accomplishment of some desired end
whether i, be war 10 extend the area OF \ rec
dom or merely the mobbing and robbine OF civil
officers in resistance TO de;csted Land Ienures
or other venerable mischief Green averred that
such violence had famiarzed his mind 10 the idea
of li,ctakiuc the end OF which was his consignment
to death and lasting execration the murderer OF
her he had sworn 10 protect and cherish. Gan any
man pretend that War does not likewise tend TO di
minsh the natural horror of murder and multiply It's
perpetrators
Mr. Burr drew vivid and thrilling picture OF the
scene presented in Troy on the day OF Green's exc
culon; the streets swarming al an early hour with
protane drunken, quarrelsome men, the necessity oil
military force to preserve order and prevent fighting
and the crowds OF thoughtess young men and women
who surrounded the tables of the Hotels, who had
come ia TO feast lir and frolic the occasion OF the
s,rancling OF fellow being. Nowhere did he OBJ
serve indications OF solemnity, pity sorrow, but
reckless curiosity fierce Impotence for the hour of
doom-lades holding out their gold watches and
counting the minutes remaining before the deed they
were forbidden TO witness should be performed IN
the prison and acted in their vivid imagination
Mr. KELLY announced himself as the procurer
for the Hangman in this City; the officer appointed
to get persons hung and see that they rcre hung.
He regretted to state that this vast and Christian
City now destitute OF any individual ready and
willing to execute what set forth as one OF
Gods most vital and imperative communicable last
man who could be hired to officiate as Hangman
having abscondcd to evade an Indictment for keep
ing vile tipping house without license What
should hereafter be done in case this religious rite
were to be performed, he could not tell and he
thought those who strenuously insisted on its per.
Torrance should provide performer. They would
Justly feel aggrieved if accused Of reluctance to
obey aud execute any other Divine ordinance-why
not this
Mr.. X narrated the circumstances of the convic
ton of the last man executed hcre-Samuel Ze-
phon, negro OF feeble intellect, no education, and
in every way bat little elevated above the brutcs-
for the murder of another negro named Cufee Todd.
Zephon was several times reprieved because the
Clergy attending him represented him as utterly I'M
fit TO die and when at last his deathwarrant came,
they said he had been reprieved SO often that he
ough, now 10 be spared altogether. They were all
advocates of Capital Punishment, his guilt was un
doubted, and yet they implorcd the saving of his
life But he was executed before scec, circle OF
Witnesses of whom it was the duty of the Prose
cutting Attorney to be one and Mr. X. declared that
SO much profanity indecency and revolving levity as
he was compelled 10 hear at that execution he never
heard on any other occasion in his lie.
More recently, it had been his duty to prosecute
Carl Pappcnberg. a German, for the murder OF an
old Italian image seller in this City. The proof was
very strong the murdered man had last been seen
in Pappenbcrgs company his cloths were found
wet in Pappenberg's pack, his tools secre;ed in the
shop where Pappenberg worked, &c The prisoner
was poor. weak, dcbased and fricndess yet he was
ably defended, and the jury found him Not Guilty.
Ii would have been impossible, Mir. X. thought to
have rendered sucha verdict if the penalty had been
any other than that awful one which prccludes all