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ii surpisc, alarm and terror, and was followed /
by an unusual and intense anxiety TO learn by
the results Of a judicial proceeding, whether
h- charge was true.
Tho day Of trial ca.no, Court was orgazicd .
TO conduct il. Jury almost Of your own cAoos-
ug was selected in the manner best calculated |
10 -ncurc intelligence and jmparaty. Coun
sci were appointed 10 assist you in conducting /
your defence who have done all that learning,
ci,qIcuco and skill could accomplish, in pre-
scntng your defence in its blst a#I ects a very
large number Of witnesses were carefully eX |
aminal. and after l,borious trial Of unprecc- |
denl,d length, conducted, rs we hope, with
patience and fidelity. that Jury have pronounced
/ you " GUILTY"
TO this verdict, upon a careful revision Of
the whole proceedings, | am constrained to say,
in behalf of the Court, that ticy can perceive
no just or legal ground of exception.
Guilty How much, under all the thrill
ling circumstances which cluster around the
case, and throng our memories in the retrospect,
does this single word import. The wilful, vio-
lent, and malicious destruction Of a fellow.man,
in the peace Of God and under the protection Of
the law--yes, of one in the midst Of life, Of
bright hopes, warm affections, mutual attach.
meuts, strong, extensive, and numerous, making
life 4 blessing to himself and others.
We alud6 thus 10 the injury you have in
tctcd. not for the lu-p~se OF awakening one
unnecessary pang in a heart already laccraleG
but to remind you of the ircparabc wrong
dine to the victim of your cruelty, in sheer JUS
tee TO him, whose voice is now hu~hed in death,
: aud whose wrongs can only b. indicated by
} the living action Of The law.
] II, therefore. yOu may at any moment think
S your case IA hard one, and your punishment too
severe, if one repning thought arises in your
mind, or one murmuTinr word seeks utterance
= from your lips, think, OH think Of him. instant
e ly deprived of Life by your guilty hand! Then,
ii not lost to all sense of rerlbutive Justice, if
: you have any compunctous visitings OF con
i science, you may be ready to exclaim in the
d bitter anguish of truth, g have sinnet against
/ Heaven and my own soul my punishment is
1t just-God be mercilu to me, a sinner!"
d God grant that your example may afford a
5 solemn warning to ALL especially to the young
e may it impress deeply upon every mind the ST
" luary lesson it is intended to teach. to guarC
10 against an indulgence Of every unhaIlowed anC
vindjctive passion, TO resist temptation to AM
$ and every selfish sorlid and wicked purpose
y, to listen to the warnings of conscience, an
n, yield TO the plain dictates of duty; and willis
H. they instinclively shrink with adherence froI
n, the first thought Of asailng the life OF another
- may they learn to reverence the laws of Go
lie and society, designed to secure protection
Ii, their own.
Id We forJoar, for obvious cons lcrations, frol
he adding such words Of advice as may b
u. sometimes thought apDroDriate. on occasion
ct like this. ItLas couD9u.y been oar province
q; on occasions like the pre.cu,. to addre,s t4a Il
he l'erate, The degraded, thc ou.c.st. whose earl
n. It. has been cast among the vicious. Tine Me-
re- igc'cd, the abandoned who have been bles7C
bv with M, moan. of moral and rpIirions cultur
VIII, Iay, never received the b.ncti,s of cu,,
.cr waited society. nor. eni wed the sweet and cuu
Ac b,ufi.il.rucas u, home.
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.al OCCASION - i.o,g,ssiy,. NAV b,a word fl V 50
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Ly whine f.. circumstances are all reversed.
"a, wyIl. Of can, c,,,L b. more eri.Ic,ous IL;
mt ia, SUPPRESSION Of COR own letter thoughts.
.es which y. comm End y,u.
re Eata. We approac this last sad dutv of pr
nd n,uac,no sentence. which is indeed i,e VII
orthe Ia =. and NOT our own. y4t in riyiur
,l- utprance. we cannot do il with fell OF i
in Inference. AS a formal and oTi,i,lH,l
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Ja inda,,,:io and tx lr,s.in,r th-s. irr.prr,>in
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ned which arise simultaneously in onr hearts. Al
,ed we m ,>t sincerely and cordially drul,re +
,ed ds,r...ior cnn.iri,, into which cri,na II
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