American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-08-07

btC Nu'tutHtttN sHt NtftIS. we presume all D
our readers are familiar with the Warren ira
gedy, in which the Cashier family were SO in
humanity butchered. Joseph Carter and Peter
w. Parke, charged with the fearful crime,
were, after long and tedious trials, convicted
and finally sentenced to suffer death on the
ED inst. An appeal was subsequently, taken
to the Supreme Court of New Jersey, where
the judgment of death was confirmed after a
patient investigation. Petitions are now IN
circulation, to be presented to those entrusted
with the pardonlng power, namely, the Gov
ernor, the Chancellor, and the six Judges of
the Court of Errors and Appeals. Should this
resort fail, the sentence Is irrevocable. The
following is the letter of one Of the unfortu-
nate men, asserting his entire innocence.
As am now about to leave this world and
must shortly appear before Just and holy God,
one who cannot err nor he mistaken, one who
Judges in righteousness and IN truth, who must
give an account to for all of my actions and
deeds, before him who will condemn me ifwhat
here say, is not true, to the place of torment
for ever, and be eternaly totmented. God
knows my innocence, and | am perfectly will
ing to abide his decision, trusting in him as
gust Judge, for he knows all things that is done
whether by day or by night. | feel now as |
am about to be offered up sacrifice upon the
altarsot my country, to satisfy the prejudices of
an excited community, that it is duty which
owe myself, my family, my friends and coun-
try, that should now make brief statement
OF facts and have them published to the world
before leave it. What [ shall say shall be
strictly true. The murder is as much mys-
terry to me as it Is to any man living. Who it
was that planned the murder or committed it
do not know. 1t is all "a mystery; suspect no
man living of having committed or being con-
cerned, knew nothing to suspect any one, or
that would lead to discovery of the mur-
derers.
| now solemnly declare before heaven and
earth, that am entirely innocent of the muir
der or of any knowledge of it whatever: and
no person ever intimatcd in any way to me such
a thing as that they wished or wanted John B.
Parke or John Cashier dead killed or robbed or
any thing of the kind; that never was on that
farm, or in that house, or in the road from the
cross roads to the creek between shutdown and
sunrise, till the next week after the murder, in
my life, that have any recollections of; that [
never knew that there was sink-hole any where
about that farm or road till Tuesday morning
after the murder; that if Joseph Carter knew OF
it he never told me; that when Linden G. Lyman
told me ofthe murder on Tuesday morning, was
the first that knew or heard of the murder or
of the sink-hole; that | was at home that night
all night from dark till about nine O'Clock in
my shop, and in my house from nine O'Clock
! till daylight the next morning; that my wife
had been sick for about three months and nay
/ child ciol that pinht. that 1 bnJ
to set up with it till midnight; that had never
seen Jesse Tiger to know him till about four
weeks after the murder that he was an entire
stranger to me at the time of the murder, and
never spoke to the man until June, 1914, in my
life; that his evidence is positively false and
| that he knows it; that the evidence of Mrs.
Martenus is also false; that her nor no other
person ever heard me say what she testified
| to, and that | can prove it to the satisfaction
of any UMPIRE JUDGED man, that did not see
Joseph Carter or Abner Parke or any other re-
lation of mine except the inmates of my own
house that night; the first time that ever saw
the snk-hole was on Tuesday morning after
the murder, between nine and ten O'clock that
I the people may say all they can, they cannot
make me guilty in any way or in any shape
The courts may condemn me and call me a
hardened wretch, and a wicked murderer
They must all recolect that they have IA Judge
supreme, az well as me; the same Judge, the
same God, and the same Mediator; that they
must appear before the same court in Heaven
that must that they must give an account as
we'll as me; and if they have done wrong they
are answerable for their own conduct; my con-
science is perfectly clear Of all guilt, and that
have done my duty to myself and to my coun-
try throughout the whole of my prosecutions,
with clean hands that have injured no man
clear from the blood of all men to appear in the
court of Heaven. have been indicted on sus,
picion, tried and CONDEMNED upon prejudice and
perjury. Yes! condemned upon perjury to die.
to die the death of a martyr, not the death of a
criminal.
freely forgive them all, and pray that God
will show them ali the error that they are in
before he calls them TO leave this world; and
may God forgive them and be more merciful to
them than they have been to me; and hope
and pray that they will seek that forgiveness
from God that will wash the stain of my blood
from their never dying souls. If any person
should attempt to pass off on the public any
confession of mine, contrary to this statement
it will be forgery This will be my dying
speech and dying breath, and | speak the
truth; can say nothing else. The whole his
tory of my prosecutions in due time will all APP
pear in brief form before the public, to give
every one an opportunity of Judging for them.
selves of the evidence of presumption. By
publishing the foregoing in your paper, you
will confer favor on an innocent and persecu.
ted citizen of New Jersey.
PETER w. PARKE.
i Dated, Mercer Jail, August Cd, ls45,