The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-05-09
Fifth Anniversary Meeting OF the New York
State Society for the Abolition Of Capital
Punlshment.

At the hour appointed for meeting, the Minerva
Room was filed with a company, among whom we
noticed that the fair greatly prcponderac After
waiting patiently long time with quaker solemnity,
by the by there several of that garb in the
sembly), the Vice. President Dr. Harson entered fol-
lowed by train of orators and took the chair and
the meeting was opened it being already late in the
evening. II was capital punishment" to be kept
long suspended.
On the intimaton of the Chairman, Mr. Pierpoint.
clerical gentleman then arose, and delivered prayer
Mr. Titus then read report or address, drawn up at
the direction Of the Executive Committee
Of the views OF the Society and also briefly relating the
efforts which had been carried by it into operation
during the last year
The report was then put to the vote, and unani-
mousy adopted and ordered to be printed.
PARK GOODWIN, ESD. then briefly addressed the
meeting and gave history of the progress of the
question. and view of its present state and condition
Mr.. CHANNING. from Boston. of the clerical
teachers of that city, the introduced and address
cd the meeting This gentleman entered into a dis
of the most sublimated ETHEREAL and
dental kind, the chief and prominent topics of which
lst That there is spirit abroad which has
That this spirit is. compared with the old spirit
which formerly mpelled society, analogous to what
the is to bleeding in nhammatory 3rd
That this spirit now fills the age and is manifested
every where 1t is evidenced in the great repub-
can movemement in France, &c 4th 1t consists
in trust moral power 5th-That this spirit is
providential and from the Divinity, and, there
fore, the age Is now inspired, and has sanction
from on high in this and all similar movements.
6th-It il not Spirit which comes from human will
fulness. and that Pope Plus the 9th has said much
After this highly ctheralized and empyrea fight into
aerial regions Of submated imaginatons. which to
catch and confne, would require pneumatic appara
us the clerical orator next proceeded to discuss the
question before the meeting under three heads though
still in somewhat gaseous cxapnsveness LIST. the
Justice of Capital Punishment-2nd lon the necessity
of the same-3rd the assertion that is sanction
ed by Scripture. And having argued and dis
cussed the question under these three heads,
he concluded by maintaining that the only
justice was to reform criminals, and TINT II
absurd for society to make against poor
to follow the orator into hell where the devils
presented thinking it of the meanest possible
sights to all society rcsorting to the of brute
force against poor ptable, bghted creature
turgidcertainly very NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of
dangling by rope in the air with all the particulars
&c The orator having descended from the high
tribune,
customary collection for the expenses of the society
and pending the collection. committee of gentlemen
appointed to nominate officers for the ensuing
year
in plain and common sense speech, in which first he
analysed the character and motives of the opponents
of the views of the Society, attributing their OPP
position mainly to mistaken conscientious motives
Having next brought forward array Of celebrated
of uriss in favor OF the abolition of DEATH he
next proceeded to discuss the question under the head
of safety and brought forward to show that
in countries and places where protect themselves
ready to act at moment tho principle Of blood
blood and death for deathin those countries the
lives Of all persons much more in danger than where
mder, gentler code prevails and that life is nder-
ed insecure by the deadly which ia inten
ded to give it security.
Mr. Greedy having FASTENED to conclusion. on ac-
count of the ateness of the hour the meeting then ad
journed