The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-04-09


deep. Earth, air and sky, declare the wonders
Of his creative power. The heavens above, gar
nished with those resplendant orbs, whose gran
deur, and sublimity, and order, and beauty, and
harmony of action, in their destined courses, pro-
claim a celestial origin and an Almighty archl-
tect demonstrate his existence, his wisdom, and
his power. The mighty ocean, the lofty noun
tain, the majestic river, the boundless plain, the
smiling valley, clothed with verdure and vocal
with music, bespeak his wisdom and his kindness
to man. Man HIMSELF fearfully and wonderful
tly made, the mysterious combination of body and
spirit; the powers faculties, end capabilities of
his immortal mind; his origin, present state, and
final destiny, all declare the omnipotence and
omnpresence of God Nature, through all her
works; existence, in all its modes and forms, is
moved and animated by divine impulse If 4
have not greatly erred, witnesses on this trial
have felt the providence and retrbutiVe justice
| of God, in the functions of that invisible tenant
within, that can never repose, save upon inno-
cence, purity and truth. We rest our faith off
the existence Of God upon the circumstances
with which we are surrounded, upon multiplied
and irresistible evidences and inferences, upon
results assignable TO no other cause. Scepti-
cism, it is true, may be found, so impudent in
pretence, and so reckless in assertion, as to gain
say or deny the circumstances, evidences, infer
ences and results; and so there may be found
those, who, from interest, prejudice or corruption,
may affect to doubt or question the conclusion
10 which the evidence in this cause points with
such unerring certainty and irresistible power
l have anxiousIy examined the testimony in
this case by day and by night, have meditated
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at correct result. have felt fully and deeply
the responsibility oF my position-that it would
be wrong and unjust to press the conviction of a
man who was not clearly guilty lhave brought
to the discharge of my duty the diligent and ho-
nest exercise of the powers and faculties which
the God of nature has given me, and now de-
clare to you, in all candor and sincerity, my clear
and undoubtng conviction, that this man is gull
ty. entertain as little doubt of his guilt, as of
the existence of that God to whom must an
swer for every thought, word, and action Of my
life
The counsel for the defence have alluded to
his wife and children. Whose heart does not
glow with warmth and melt with sensibility, when
an appeal is made to those endeared and en-
dearing Objects to those consecrated idols of the
affections? do not complain Of this appeal, or
that they should attempt to influence you by
such considerations. But you will not be gov
erned by your sympathies, or the feelings of your
arts. You have . duty to discharge to your
selves, to your country, and your God. If his
wife be pure, and innocent, and amlable, how
ever painful the separation, it may be mercy to
rescue her from the dominion and embrace of
corrupt and corruptng felon; it may be kindness
to his children, 10 save them from the blighting
and desolating influence of his example. When
this defendant beholds the infamy which his Of
fences have attached TO his family; the desola-
ton which his crimes have carried TO his dwell
Ing, the sorrow and anguish with which his ini-
ques have filled the bosGms of his wife and
children, we'll may he exclaim with the jealous,
loathed, and detested Herod, after the murder of
lii belutifi:l and lamented wife:
'And mines the guilt, and mine the hell,
| "This bosom's desoation booming;
sand / have earned those tortures we'll,
(which unconsumed, are still consuming
The scene is drawing to acose-the defend
ants long career of crime will now terminate
the multiplied, clustering and conclusive proofs,
will not permit his escape from punshment--you
will be compelled, however painful the office, to
pronounce verdict of gulty--the judgment of
this impartial and venerated court will speedily
follow. When the sentence of the law shall have
consigned him to solitude, to separation from
wife, children, friends and associates; when me-
ditation and reflection shall have forced their un-
welcome presence upon him by day and by night
when he shall have passed again and again, in
sad review, the long catalogue of his crimes and
enormities; when his alarmed and terrific con-
science shall have awaked from its long contin-
ued repose then, then, in the bitterness of an
guish will he exclam with the sangunary, trea-
cherous and remorseless Richard, when, on that
fearful night which preceded the fatal battle bat
tie of Bosworth field, the ghost of the murdered
: Edward rose and cursed him; when the spirit Of
: Henry appeared and denounced him; when the
ghosts of Clarence, Rivers, Grey, Vaughan and
Hastings, cut off from life by his treachery and
cruelty, arose and cursed him; when the spirits
of the smothered princes, his murdered neph-
: ews the rightfu heirs to the throne and crown Of
r England, bade him "despair and die; !" when the
r. ghost of his wretched wife, the murdered Anne
'that never slept quiet hour with him." "flled
his sleep with perturbaton:--
I" My conscience hath thousand several tongues,
s /" And every tongue brings in several tale,
rs And every tale condemns me for a villain.
4" Perjury, perjury, in the highest degree,
SAIL several sins, all used in each degree
s ' Throng to the bar crying all--Guity! GUILTY."
L ..
/, or 1T the late Berkshire (Mass.) Jubilee
t Mr.. Macready, the tragediun, recited in style
Of beautiful elocutiGn, The exquisite metrical
version fan Eastern fable by Leigh Hunt, which
: observes to be printed in letters of gold, and
taken to heart by ull." Would that the heaven
, born sentiment itcOntains were appreciated ont
: acted upon by all:
" "Abon Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase)
: Awoke one night from deep dream Of pence,
] And saw, within the moonlight in his room,
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