The North-Carolina standard., 1845-10-22
TnE ANrI.RENrERs


The power of the violated law is making itsel
felt in New York against the Anti Renters Al
late trial in Delaware county, Judge Parker
presiding, sentence was passed upon consider
able number, who had pleaded guilty of man
slaughter, in the murder of under.SheTif Steele,
in various degrees John Van Steenburg and
Edward O OConnor were sentenced to be hung;
Moses w! Earll, Daniel w. Squires, and Daniel
Northrop, were sentenced TO the State Prison for
life; John Phenix, John Burch, Jno. L. Burhans,
Calvin Madison, William Reside, John Latham,
William Brisbane, and Charles T. McCumber,
sentenced to the State prison for seven years
several were fined and others who had pleaded
guilty of manslaughter in the fourth degree, were
permitted to go at large. subject to arrest and pun
ishment hereafter. The prisoners had the advan-
tage of able counsel, and the prosecution was con-
Quoted with remarkable ingenuity and eloquence
by John Van Buren, Esq We quote the SEN
tence of Moses Earll aa
"Moses Earll You have pleaded guilty to
manslaughter in the lst degree. What have you
to say, &c. go .-yz-:.
/" Prisoner hope your honor Will consider
me- and do me all the good you can and l hope
the God of heaven will reward you for it. hope
turn TO my companion. r.; =
Judge Parker. 1t is certainly a painful duty
to pass sentence upon a man of your years. You
were indicted for murder; and YOU owe it to the
technicality of the law that you have not been
found guilty of that crime. It was the course Ia
ken by you that led to the death of Steele. You
placed your property in the hands of a disguised
band of men, which led to the resistance Of the
sale, and finally to the murder of the under shef
md nnhlic iuSticp demands that vour
ment be severe. We must sentence you to the
State prison Cor life. You WILL therefore, be cut
off from your friends and from society; and the
public will hereafter be secured from the presence
of one who is guilty OF so high a crime, and who
has been the cause of consequences so lamenta-
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"The judgment of the court is, that you be con-
fined IN the State prison in Clinton county for the
term of your natural life" -
Thus has the law triumphed over resistance to
its requirements-an thus may it ever be! We
regret to see by the papers, that Club is about to
be formed in New York City, for the purpose of
procuring the pardon of DR.. Boughton alias Big
Thunder. His sentence was no doubt righteous
one, and no effort should be countenanced which
looks to his release by appeals to the popular pas
sions. That the rent-laws, which were resisted
by these men, are anti-republican in their nature
and tendencies, and that the tenants ought to have
some fair and equitable compromise, is, in our
opinion, beyond doubt but however clear this may
be, and however much they may feel themselves
aggrievcd, they have no right to array themselves
against the established laws of the State. Justice
and public opinion will ultimately triumph, but
until then all good citizens are bound to respect
the laws, and all who violate them must pay the
penalties which will inevitably follow. " >
Honors 4Oith Craze The civic procession
at Bonn, to receive Queen Victoria was headed
by the chief magistrate, arrayed in his robes Of
office, and smoking his pipe Ball. Rep~6:
We should rather call it "honors NTH a"-puf
The old German was no doubt at his ease-cer-
tainly he has shown the world how much respect
is due to royalty. t-a-s@'
We invite attention to the Interesting report in
another column Of the proceedings of the Baptist