Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-06-15

callings Of life, are such impenetrable
block heads that the facts demonstrating
| the needlessness Of judicial killing have
no, vet entered their minds. Turn back
the dial of claw 10 the hour of racks,
faepots and wheels Of fortune. and these
men would be found either slavishly per.
forming the Christian duties Of tormen.
tors or they would be induIging the bent
of their depraved propensiries in that di.
rec,ion. But we allude TO them and this
last horrible exhibition Of their false prin.
ciple not so much in anger as in sorrow.
Thank God a new and better seed of
principles is beginning to take root among
mankind, and the day may be coming
when it will exlirpaIe the crop Of murder
and shame.
The clouds wept, and the morning
was every way worthy ofthe decd. En-.
tering the Jail premises before nine
o'clock, we found a considerable collec-
ton Of people and a strong police force
inside. Behind the Northwestern build
ing was a new gallows, consisting of u
platform about fifteen feet square, raised
a little higher. than ones head, and a
single beam over il as much higher. In
the centre Of the platform was q trap.door,
surrounded with a raised frame. The
trap was so adjusted that the e~xecutioner
might let it fall, and the spectators not
be the wiser as to who did it. A rope
was run through two holes in the beam,
and fastened on the post, the CREASED
moose suspended over the trap being en-.
closed in a bag 10 keep it dry.
In the farther corner cell on The right,
OH the lower floor Of the southeast build.
ing, lay the victim, covered with a blan-
ket, on a pallet Of straw supported by
three benches. During the night previ.
Gus he had managed 10 persuade his
watchers to leave him for d few minutes,
and in that time he swallowed a quantity
of tobacco and cut his arms with a small
piece Of glass, so that, when alarmed by
"A noise in his cell they entered, they
found him choking and nearly exhausted
by loss of blood. As the officers en-
pressed it, he had bled a bucket-full. A
physician was directly in attendance and
checked the hGmorrhage. Goode, when
reused from his laintness, declared that
he did not wish to die like a pirate.
Several %clergymen had been with him
endeavoring TO "save his SOUL the eve.
ming before, and he had assumed an
appearance of resignation 10 his fate, and
promised them that he would not attemp,
suicide. This was obviously done that
he might not cheat the gallows. But the
wonderful humanity which forbids the
gal!ows 10 be cheated gained a partial
victory, and when theology and law
marched into the prison next morning in
considerable state, to complete their Joint
task, Goode vas lying there a more
physical wreck, too weak TO stand, but
with a perfect consciousness of all about
him, and an utter unwillingness to die.
The theological applications to his soul
seemed to have quickened his horror of
death without at all rendering him sub
missive 10 the law.
Rev. Father Taylor, Rev. D. S. King,
Rev. MIR. Grimes, Rev. Mr.. Oyial,. and
Rev. Mr.. Snowden. Father Taylor took
the leading part. lie addressed The sher.
ifs and conslables as the defenders of
innocence, and congratulated them on
their irmnesS in obeying the law. He
said that Goode had thanked all The of.
iicors, AMI especially Sheriff Eveleth, for
their kindness 10 him, and thus honored
the law. But he did no say that he had
confessed his guilt. The Rev. Fathers
address was followed by an appropriate
prayer, and if we ever had Il suifocating
sense OF blasphemouS mockcry, it was
then. lie prayed God Ia have mercy on
the poor, helpless wretch. and with the
next breath he thanked Col that the
sheriff had come up 10 the work Of cho.
king him without a nerve trembling, and
he prayed that his heart might ever re-
main unaffected b. Scnamcnialism.-
That was The precise word he used
> The ruthless old fanatic, having finished
! his cunning GRAFTON in behalf of the gal.
! lows, was followed by Rev. Mr.. Grimes,
who seemed 50 sincerely eaten up with
: his theology that he could not let the
Lord go without imporiuning him ill the
u last moment TO come down with the
) "power," and change the heart of Goode
!" by miracle. In the true anxious-room
y style, he prayed the Lord 10 come nol,
: and slapped his hands, by way of empha.
. sis 10 each petition. The obvious earn.
= estness of the man, however much he
might be mistaken in his theory, was {
relief after listening 10 the arrant Jesuit
y ism OF Father Taylor, and we saw man,
moist eyes as his imporlunate ~interces
u sion, were poured forth. After prayers
e hymn was sung, and then poor Good,
- was forced up from his lair, and dressed
for his last journey.
- As we stood in the window, and III,
y door Of the cell was closed we did no
~ see The operation. But in the meantim,
&c the chief chaplain, father Taylor, VIII,
Is stood near us, remarked in answnr n