The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-05-10

by society but suddenly and revongy as the murder
this was the practice in the days in which the
ucon m was given 70 the peoples they made no dis
ens ask this does the change time and
commando If does heS the mode q
and i is for you to prove that is not commanded to
com;ns fro 'U'an change Now II there is basis
is no right in the present form Of society to en-
as ,ss w any say
could have been confined society would have
safe In savage, turbulent times when there were no
aws-when every mans hand against his neiphbor
and his nsghbors against him. might have been nc.
s.s%p Thy say
rude passionate and mans life & not inc
essmps % cam the Be- Rsn
only when the better man is hushed when the passions
therefore, life instead Of being held sacred Is looked up
on as light matter There is another example and one
solemnly and deliberately taken-thc man Of bad pas.
sions WIN say, why then take life and this Is my
Of all is that life be taken amid so much ieyity Did
not Eager know that this city going on as usual
and plod when he in the agones Of dissolution
He felt that he was desolate and lonely-thc EXAMPLE
The newsboys who hawked the account q his death
through the streets, what was the example to him r.
based on to Tn. sa ts
y OF society They say that this kind Of punishment is
necessary and must be tolerated deny the justices
is not fitting punishment to the crime because it makes
society commit the crime for it Furnishes the crimi-
nal 1t is pervcrsion Of justice Tho mind that il
brutality and injustice. When the missionaries anglicz-
ed the savages and erected gallows to punish man,
init murder for murder 1t is unjust not because II Is
not the extreme punishment that society inact but
because it takes from the hands of God what 10 his right
and his only The greatest punshment that be in.
ictca Is in my opinion utter seclusion from socsty
the % nS snd he
0n Of which hs , feels t. BE- the mn To
Of reformation you may lift him from degradation to
occupy the high and holy sphere he was made for
Show him when shut out from society friendly face to
waken in his heart his better nature and win be at
once punishment and blessing-the crime done to-
y takes not passing notice Of Ike sddnr wS
where fellow creature sank, busconsign him moral
all hearts Such remedial, and should be al
lowed chance. There is also danger Of taking nno
the kind, and closed with this remark: when man
shows better nature, new principles, you have Gods
Mr. CLApP of Boston, rose in the name of religion to
bear testimony against capital punishment, though lie
despaircd of utterng his thoughts to the full extent
Every whose heart has not been hardened by the
action Of the day must have responded to the remarks Of
the eloquent Claiming that life is volable and that
ect is the prevention Of crime and the exorcson Of the
spirit of murder Seeing the secular and religious
taught by themf By the tking Of life, which is the sa-
crcdes Of things all around are taught by the
every day to exercise that spirit and the fact that they
do SO little resist that temptation proves that they need
most sacred, and has that lesson been taughs No. To-
day we have seen that life is violabe and that under
cognzable This question is one So plain, that from
its very simplicity il passed by things that involve
most intricate course Of reasoning and argument &C.
morally understood but things plain this, can
scarcely force into the toruous mind of the public
This day he had converted with whom, he
at Gospel Kat ssce. 10 Of ne sV
with good not the gibbet. The clergyman argued that
gbbet object Of terror that they might Know that
life could not be taken-but is this true philosophy.
forts had lately been made to give up the wearing of
deadly weapons, and it had been proved satisfactorily
liam the %
NIT murder. In New Orleans and vicksburg, though
the code of honor SO called in operation though 1t
was well understood that man could commit the
slightest offence towards his ellowman without running
the risk Of being cloven to the ground What has this
has the insecurity Of ie increased No man IS 50 aIi liable
suit 1t is not true, in fact that deferred from
evil doing by terror Of the law terror il to be the
in the and Sn
with much pleasure, but5a he believed the ygbbet
snd weee wa. sso hs
Societies TIA. go in any way for for. abrevistng
to hs sd h
crime good and unpunishnble thing. A clergyman
this day had said to him that it dangerous for
age than If ws
brought to the Saviour for condemnation, what his
reply Go, and sin no more" And he was wiser than
Of what for the interests Of the sinner and
community at large The clergyman replied, Sir, the
found guilty by regular tribunal And il she had, he
would have Joined in her punishment! Would the
% o@
cuton II the person who killed him pure and
peaccful il Jesus Christ would have assisted at it,
Such on idea seems horrible (and he did not wish
to shock anybody in the room,) but unless you
| believe that hc could have done il you are unjust
the gibbc It is said that the gibbet necessary to
inspire terror in the hearts Of the community then why
were they not allowed to witness the enno6g and era
sghtl Why not selccti noble amphtreatre and
there calling together the women and children Of
wholesome terror, let them witness it. And why, il
life is so sacred, and its taking is solemn why not
gay whsh men could TAKE adyamsage PHI ne
had been feeling exhibited this day. II an example
were necessary, why not take time when community
day and in presence of children and the execution
er been clergyman there would have been solcmny
ject this But the law has decided that this dreadful
ample shall be performed secretly, SO that none shall
have advantage of it. Among the crowd assembled in
the vicinity oithc prison and cndcavorng obtain spot
where glance at the dreadful scene might perchance be
No, the reverse He went on to aude to The visit Of
Cough and the Hutchinsons the State prisons and the
OF their Kindness to tho prisoners proof OF their
openness to reasoning; and concluded with
tcc Of those clergy who maintain the doctrine changing
amidst some applause. tmlet
Mr. DELl of Kentucky being called upon, said Ladies
and Gentlemen IL should be sorryvery sorry-if ono
of the remarks made by the gentleman who preceded
were true, and that is that the people losing
faith in christianity. don't believe it, There may be
individuals and there may be societies who have lost
faith in tho forms Of christianity but thcrc
tia principle and vital one in il which society
gninsny that sccevdcnt and popabic, as
that two and two make four and among them the one
recognize in tho reputation Of capital punishment
Nothing, sir in visit to your city affords greater
pleasure than my attendance at this meeting tonight No
subject appears to clear and satisfactory than
the proposition that in the n1ction of capital punish
mcnt VIC outrage all the instincts the sympathes tho
charities Of our nature. Why when first thought Of
the subject it flashed my mind like food Of light
Everything charitable, good and sympathetic in
ture against and II is the painest simplest thing
possible. II IL not because the people losing faith in