Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1847-08-19
Capital Punishment.
as" No. VIII.

as" No. VIII
To the Editors Of the State Sentinel
GENTLEMEN al will examine that part Of the Noa-
chic code bearing IN. subject under discussion
IL provides as follows:
Aad surely your blood Of your Tires loiI require;
AT The had Of erery beast UiH require a.
And at the kdnd # man UH IreqUrs a.;
At the hand Of erery mans brother tcH require The life
Of maa.
hOsOeUer sheds mans blood By man shall his blood be she'd
And then gives The reason Of all as follows;
For IN The image Of God made he naaa.
Or, state other WORDS Man, being Great
ed IN the likeness Of God, IN his image on earn 10 he
inhabitants thereof not only u his fellow man. but the
beast Of field the fowl Of the air. and the h>h oil the
and in him God Elected the whole mundane world
therefore, whoever Stays him" sheds his 0ood mars
and destroys image Of God and contemns and oilers m
dignity his Majesty his reflected image and IS gully
of rebellion and against the great God oil The Ou
verse. The reason then III the " DEAN penaiV OeinS
affixed 10 murder is because murder Is an dcf 81 treason
against the God rho made and rules oil hngs Is not me
reason sufficient warrant the inhet'on 81 the penalty
For If the word [mply spoken by angels was steaoias'
and erery lGnSgTeSsOa and dSobdieace received Just
ecompense of lewad how much shall he be brought
TO condn punishment who makes war against the God oil
the Universe aud pours AID destroys the lie OF MS
lIkeuess earth, and brother 10 who Is the express
Of hi. person. If for dsObedence Of his laws God
rghIfuly the disUbedient into everlasting
punishment for against has person aud
government Tghully cut of The traitor iI0m thIs eaih-
plsck him fom his moal vineyard-TeHove him from
the earth with h evil example TO Others IN IKE case
ng-anh make this fearful retiibution TINS display oil MS
VENGEANCE. a terror to evil doefs Cannot he VINO
makes his ministers fame Of fie ghully make man
the instrument by which the punished When
that the sword placed IN his hands aud ne
commanded 10 smife, shall be smlte And u ne 90
snite il MURDER either Legal illegal, or judicial
Let those who suIcharged with scky sehuhe"'s.
sm,' morbid sympathy, and mock philanthropy,
answer these questions.
But says j. ". B Gods image is as much violated in
killing the murderer by the sentence OF the law, as IN ine
original death Of the Murdered" This shows extremely
muddy of old deameIs ideas Napoleon, emperor
Of france, makes DAvVust, Lannes &c Marshas oil the
empire and makes them the image OF bis Imperial power
in their respective spheres War against them Is resist
Of and against, HIM, 10 which he aixes " the
death penalty las opponents so well Ike 10 call H.
says Whose sheddeh the Marshas blood by the Maj
shall shall his blood be shed fO IN the image OF The emPe-
made he them Marshal Augeieau makes war upon and
sheds the blood of Marshal Laune and IN obedienence 10
the above edict Marshal Sout Stays Augereau Angeeau
direct r0!dfon oil the command aud edct oil inc enp-
ru and in defiance Of them, slew Lannes; and Soult ~
direct obedience he command and cdet of the emperor
slew Augereau; and yet according to j. W. b. SOUL Vlo-
lated image of The much AugeIeau did
This simple Of his position sufficient 10 snow
lis ab>udy. Aud yet this the logic that annIhlaes
the iaPouS pretex that capital punishment IS sanctioned
aud required by the Divine Law ~
But ia the preceding sentence before the above quota
tion j. W. says, hose shrddeih The blood oil man Tor
meat be il man OF beast shall his blood Shed for
in the IMAGE Of God &c And in another place he says
Lay your hand man 10 Stay hIm Tor iood; De ne
beast or his he must die for man made IN
Gods image" Az indeed Well then. J. W. b. Is foI
the deAh penalty" Ay and for The beast too well as
the man. after having u>ed up half column IN sho ing
that our because il would INCLUDE the
beast murder well the man murder. Ii seems Then
he is for capital punishment well as and the only
difference between him and Is that he VIII not have The
death penalty Inflicted the man or beast murderer
unless murders for whether he eats the meat OF mol
afterwards while for having it inflicted whether 1.-THE
intent murdered al the time the murder
committed or not. lie makes Nth the intent 10 cal th
of the dehuIIiOn OF murder, and d,
rot get addition the definition Of murder he
has to make Interpolation in the Scriptures founded OF
an assumption : May not now ask HIM, Is not Gods
image much violated in killing the murderer who mu
dered by the sentence OF the law, as IN killing
any other murderer by the sentence of the law Ihnl
that il is Just about as much.
How strangely confused sometimes becomes whei
he sets down 10 his mind that dream OF his masina
tim is so and then about searching Tor arguments
sustain it Of originally setting himself to ~oik
investigate and fad what is so, and what Is not so
And easily clear headed like you are, whe
they anxious T. have certain position sustained, sunr
such sdctory fusan the above TO be cIammed dow
their necks as conclusive the point discussed
From of the law Of capital punishment IN tn
Noachc CODE draw another argument to prove that tha
law is still in force. For the image Of Gcd made he man
was The day the law than 1t l. now
The of the law exists in much force now as d
then Is the law then, truly in existence now as
then Very respectfully yours, &c. d