Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-04-01

er we had not 'pdtd too much Jof inc tc"iS''e'
ArRocIrY OF MuRpER.-We wish, in all candor |
to ask the advocates for the abolition of the death
penalty, what it is, that has within very few years
past added such atrocity to the commission of homl
eide? Look at the late case OF Freeman, such an IN
stance is about unparalleed-it has but one parallel
in our recollection in this country and that was but
few wears since in the State of Pennsylvania under
the administration of the notorious "Pardon Porter
and in that case the wretched man, by his firm belief
in the sure hope of pardon to the very moment ne
| was launched into eternity, showed concluslveiy
what had been the final blow to his feeble conscience
such ccol-bIooded deliberaton and such fierce and
fatal execution. We will give our opinion for what
| if is worth. The criminal never nerves his resolu-
ton to the point of actual perpetraton until ne has
sypressed conscience in the forced belief OF his own
justification Some one has ill treated him; there
forefore he will kill him; the world is his enemy,
therefore he will murder somebody. AS in the case
of Freeman, he has been unusty punished, and SOM
body must suffer for it. Now does not this morbid
sympathy manifested for murderers in particular
strengthen them in this feeling! Does it not serve
to convince them that they really sufferers, and
as mankind is the enemy and refuses them justice,
they have the right to vindicate themselves! Such
is our firm belief. 1t may be, and it undoubtedly Is
the case, that the opponents of deathpenalty, have
their theories and sympathes refined and subllm-
ated, in their own brains that they can work any
injury upon the gross passions of the dcpraved and
vicious but it is not so. Let them 60 to the muir
derer under sentence of deathand him though
his crime is great he does not deserve death, no mat
ter what refined subtilety they may take as the ba
sis of their argument, this simple declaration viii
strip the crime, in the murderers eyes of half its
normty and place it on level with theft and rob
y berry.
This has been the effeat of telling incipient muir
!. derers that Death was too great penalty for TIT
crime 1t has ad ded strength to the assassins arm
and made him feel as though his quarrel was just.
= u The reported death on the Cars at Marshall
lie turns out to be erroneous, some was injured
D. who we have not learned.
Town MEErING.-Next Monday we hope on
Wing friends will reccollect, is the day for the annu
al election of Township officers. 1t is not unusu;
for many to remain at home and take little interest
: the Town election, but this we think has decidedly
!, bad tendency; if in other way, certainly by offe
49, ing a temptation to remissness In official duty
=, for if the people little ABOUT the manner
which the duties of Office discharged as to RI
or main away from the polls; will officer be likely
II, have very deep sense of their Importance! B'
more than this; We believe tbattLe healthful, col
seratiye, and reformatory spirit, of the principles
N the Wing party has struck deeper root since the
Isl feat of 1914 than heretofore; let us then ma
~. fully vindcate cause on every occasion. We a
not the advocates of exclusive party selection
&c minor officers, but what we mean is, let us move
party, and if we confer an Office not inuotuing d'
tinctiue principles, on an honorable opponent, let
be always understood, such office is the gift of Wing
The principles of ,76 we love still and let every p
tical act our lives attest devotion to them.
!. Let the meeting on Friday also be well attende
- We hope many-nay all-of our friends from t
-. country will make it point to be in Town on tn
dav, to attend the convention and vote on the mol
nations Be on hand and see for yourselves whet
'' er all is done fairly.