New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-03-20
From Douglas Jerrold's Weekly Newspaper
sentimentnlists-In fdel.-and the HaBgmsn

From Douglas Jerrolds Weekly Newspaper
entimeptalists-I nfdel.-and the Haugmsn.
We have no doubt when the Legislature ceased
10 permit old women TO be burned for their ugli-
ness that certain well.instructed Christians ex-
claimed" What infideltyl" humps hare.
ip-ss Oblique eye-wss in the court Of Christian
science suficing evidence Of the mark Of Satan
and the uncomey witch was burned 10 the salts.
faction and increasing piety OF all orthodox believers.
At this moment IS there village IN All England
without It's Ola dedePII woman no IN the good
old times of FIRE and fsggot. would not have been
ia peril OF her liie-to be offered up as religious
sacrifice 10 good respectable people And now,
she is permitted to live and the world is not In
darkness. wanting the flames that in the times Of
simple truth, would have duly roasted her
A "well-insuucted Christian" in that muslin
rac the Morning Post considers the gallows 70 be
the foundation Of society. With him, the world
does nos depend-as poets have sung--from the
golden chain OF Necessity fastened 20 the iootsoo
of Jove but bangs from hempen rope Phinehas
such is the newspaper name otour well INSTRUCTED
Christian-considers belief Ia The necessity OF
hanging 10 be an instrumental part Of revealed
lision. And more Phinehas, with piercing eye
for a milestone sees in the attempts OF sentiment
taists 20 set aside the hsDgman covert attack on
all human authority. The saliows il, OF all. the
most important post let that be carried, and the
throne must capitulats. The Lapland witch with
simple rope ties up tempest In a single knot The
English hangman. in ms moose. makes sure the
social safety Of the nation; unasten that and the
hurricane ofAnarchy will sweep all before IT, Truy
Jack Ketch is a very illused funciionary; for con
sidering his great social utility. he ought 10 take
rank with the most solemn authorities Of the land
vet somehow. do shrink from him we do not
award to him anything like the same respect we
offer 10 O bishop, or even 70 curste But then.
poor human uatI e is 50 fantastioal Hear Phine-
has, We men who love social order and rally round
the gallows.
Ills in fact perfectly evident the welInssucied
Christian. that the pretended humsnity which would
abolish death as the penalty for murder is merely part
of that desacol and isfdl norensH which aims 81 de-
stroying the very foundations Of Christianity
There doubt the lawfulness Of the hsngman
and You are dsist lay destroying finger on the
qallovs and 1t is an infdel movement! TTuo
Christianity is only TO be found in the Old Bailey
all other Is spurious.
There csnno, bs a doub, that malttudes who Join in
the cry for RENTING the penalty Of death for murder
the assumed ground that the authority OF the Old les
lament In this point s no longer binding sre wholly I'M
aware how greatly they therefore helping the enc
mics Of re truth 10 cap the foundations Of all faith
in revelation and thus to undermine the authority on
which human governments exist and the welbeing OF
society depends
The first great movement of the French revolu-
tionists was 10 carry the Bastile. Let Lord NJ
gent Joseph Surge, Charles Gilpin and other such
proved deists and inhdels, destroy the condemned
cells Of Newgate, and is 1t likely they will stop
there ! Will they not flushed with conquest,
march on to Buckingham Palace and thence
take an express train 10 Slough. hot for Windsor
Caste7 For the first time, the hangman looms
upon ms in bis true, majestic proportions What
is he in fact but the watch and warder OF the
British Constitution Seize him. fling him over
into the moat, and the edihcc-the sacred work OF
the wisdom OF ages--is dehled by the orgies OF de-
lists and inidels Wise Phinehas seeing the hang.
man in peril, roars out with all his might" The
Church Is in DANGER
And Phinehas says. touchingly, as though bis
very heart-strings were hempen twine
should the Legislature ever be beguilsd by the
eldors OF rfdes and seHftveHfds into yielding on LAs
oae poiz, will infalby identity itself with the enc
mics whether open covert deluded) Of the revealed
Word and VIII Of God"
Phinehas is right. His reasoning. weighty as
plummet strikes us Insdes and sentiu1entallsts
have almost made this social state OF ours-once 50
exciting and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and common
place Once, indeed, ugly, freckled, withered old
women yelled out their lives IN flames witches,
doomed on the authority Of the Old Testament
And then the pale sentlmentalist lifted up his
voice. aud denounced the blasphemous abomins-
ton and By degrees, men listened and were con
verted by his folly and who-at this moment-can
count the number OF witches working their daily
spells on English babes and English cattle Who,
by the way shall say that TO them alone We owe
not the potato blight
foundations OF society are manifold Men were very
properly broken aliveupon the wheel sndth sen
timentslist trembled and turned white At the
bloody work and still denounced IL. And Grimm
ais, with life vet in them, were ripped open dis
embow eled and still the sentimentalist, at the
eallovs foot, in the name Of God and nature pro
tested against the sacrilege. And the limbs and
Joint. Of small offenders were crushed In steel
boots, wrenched by iron screws and the pnlng,
pslhd sentimentalist-with bis heart OF curds and
whey-even then cried ont, and still exclaiming.
ended the iniquity.
And thus Phinehas-most orthodox, well In
structed Christian. thus the seB,lmentAlist viii
continue in the weakness OF his old ways until the
wheel. and the rack, and the steel boot, and the
thunbsccew, and all the machinery that IN his *
norsnce and weakness msn learned Of the devil
whcrewish 70 chsstiss and reform bis fellow man
until with all the boOistained lanlber OF barbarous
times, the hsngman is set for aye aside.
Painful is II, Phinehas, for thy welregulated
mind 70 consider; but the tiueis coning-fsst CON
ing-and calcrAft. thy living hope OF Newgste. vii
officially be OF no more account than the orsinless
mummy Of the Egyptian King, slumberins N
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