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

cd the Reverend. We expressed some
little surprise and horror that he,a chris
tian clergyman, should be willing thus 10
consign II fellow man TO a certain and
eternal hell. | know, said he, you are
a man who jump at conclusions. You
condemn me without waiting 10 know
that | have been absent from the city
and did not return till just now, and have
therefore had no opportunity TO sign it.
Would you have signed Tiff you had had
an opportunity Z That was his own bu-
siness and not mine, the clergyman re-
piled. Ye, this Reverend defender of
the gallows, we are credibly informed,
was asked TO sign the petition before he
left the city, and positively refused =
Here then was n loud mouthed reverend
denouncer Of sentimentalism and advo.
cate of choking, who had just %reproach-
ed a condemned convict for deception,
caught in an act Of prevaricalion inf
nitely more contemplate.
When the sherilfs had completed the
toilet Of their victim he appeared, ghasl-
ly and cadaverous. dressed in rusty black
clothes too short for him, with blue stock.
ings, q pair Of new shoes, and a dirty
black handkerchief in his hand. His
arms and legs were bound closely with u
new bed cord, and he was logged along
by officers Spoor and Slratton in an arm
chair. When his eye caught the
gallows he gave a look of inexpressibIe
anguish. He was carried up the ladder
feet foremost and sci down upon the ia
tai drop. Rev. Deputy Sheriff Jabez
Pratt, who had been very active in all
the arrangements, and who was the only
man we saw that seemed TO relish his
employment, adjusted the rope TO the
victims neck, which constable Spoor
held in the right place, while Sheriff
Eveleth read Governor Briggs death
warrant, a rather more amiablo, and a.
bout as Necessary a document as tina,
proclamation which called on the Chris.
lian Patriots of Massachusetts to cut the
threats Of innocent Mexicans. When he
first reached the scatfold, Goode seemed
faint, but his groans soon told that he
felt an age Of agony, in The few minutes
while the slow murder was perpetrating.
They gave him no chlorolorm. The
warrant being read, and the man having
replied by a pitiful groan 10 the question
whether he had aughI to say, the cap
was adjusted by Reverend Sheriff Pratt,
and some undesirable motion let slip
The trap door, and q brother man created
in the image of God. and only IL brother
in the guilt which is common to us all =,
was a wrilhing corpse 1T The end Of u
rope.
A murmur Of horror and disgust ran
through the spectators in the Jail yard,
and they began 10 turn their backs upon
The horrible sight.
The crowd of people was considerable
without. and great numbers, in many ca
SEES by the force of money, obtained the
privilegcof CRAFTY ing their curiosity from
the windows of houses in Lowell street,
Wall street and Causeway street. This
man was hung, we have no doubt, for the
glory Of Calvinislic theology, but we
doubt whether that gloomy, ~hcathenish
and absurd porvcrsion of Natural Chris
lianity makes anything by it.
Oar neighbor The Bee, saysvery untru-
ly, we will not say insincereIy, in regard
10 the efforts to save Goodies life, that
"Mercy confined her supplica,ions 10 the
depraved culprit, while Justice surveyed
higher interests, and remoicr but para
mount consequences" The advocates
Of hanging cannot lay this lattering unc-
ton 10 their souls. 1t is the mischief
which they DO TO the remoter and para.
mount consequences against which Mcr.
cy specially objects. 1t is The smallosr
part Of Mercy's GRAND to save the life
Of The cuIprit. II is her mission to ar
rest The mad hand OF Revenge, which is
sowing broad castthe balcGul seed Of muir,
der. If this could only be the last hang.
ing, then We might hope by-anl.by to see
the last murder-but never, never, while
law sets the cowardly example.
INCIDENTS ON TIE OUTSIDE,
While the law and the gospel? were
preparing their machinery Of death OF
theinside, gaping crowdson the outside o
the Jail were not idle.
The doors of nearly all the dwelling,
houses and stores on Lowell. Causeway
Leverelt, Getting and Wall streets were
locked or blockaded with Police. Or
Cotiing and Wall streets the crowd wa:
quite large. From these TWO streets Tho
gallows could be seen very plain with it
rope and cap dangling in the breeze
The anxiety of the spectators 10 sec III
deed consummated was intense. w
saw children fighting for places; womcl
that crowded the windows laughing an,
/, testing with The rabble-lhe house.iops
with few exceptions, were lined wit
groups of men and women eager to viey
, The bloody work. They retained thei
, position for about two hours notwithstan
3, ding the rain.
Expressions Of the most diabolical ma
, ture Wore constantly mt forth hv The WI