Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-02-21
The Death PGHaiiy,

Governmental killing is nguin tic order oi
the day. We do not refer to The grand Jrt-
tue in wlirr the present beautiful govern
nient nf Frurrr shot down some twenty
tonsnnh innocent people 10 vlildicato its
ability to do il. The killing to which we re-
fer is more piecc-ncal business which
grows out of grammar and THEOLOGY, or raih-
or ont ofccrtniu hOiry grammatical aud tlco.
logical hlnndurs. II n man Kills another,
the government kills him. Two men were
killed in this way last frilny--it il nccrssa-
ry to kill them on Friday no other day will
do. This killing is artnow edged by the
government Ia hc very miserable, druor-
aliling btlsinrss, for il does it privately, ns
not fit to hc seen. Aud liy nu nddiiiuthl re-
fncncnt, AT Brooklyn, in the case of Rirl'y,
il was routriycd That the fatal rope should he
cut hy u man whom unhody could sec. Jack
Kcich was entirely concealed behind the
wall of the Jail, hs n man whose reputation
would bc utterly blasted by his being visible.
Good!
The lime will come when all the other
mariners in this disgusting and bootlrsS cru-
ely, Legislators, Judges, aud eleriii.) will
have To he screened io preserve ilrir rcputa'
ton. Hanging Is remnant of baibaiiSin
for the continuance of which there is not the
reasonable MS u punishment for murder, il
would hc aud was, when prucliccd, good for
n hundred other crimes. Its friends first fly
10 The hook of Genesis. When we show
them that, for their lives, they calnot tell
whether wlnt they qIOtc rs u cnulnnud. Is
really such, or II mere prophecy. nnd more
over that ii it he n command IL Is nn mere
binding now than others connected with II
which they do no, think of ohe, ing then
they hy To philosophy, aud ask ii hanging he
abolished what protection have we Tor our
lives?
FIVE had no gsllows and Gs many mur-
hcrs ms now, whit an outcry there would he
Is not hnnging for murder an unsuccessful
experiment? Aud has il not been tried long
enough? The whole history of the world
shows that sanguinary punishment increase
crime, aud murder is no exception. Though
hnDging is aud has been the general rule ~
ChristelI,lorn, yet IheIe have been some eX
cepii0ns, aud in no ease where the gnllo"'
has been dispensed with has murder incrcas
cd, while IN some il has been perccpiihly di
minishcd. These stubborn incls overthrow
the philosophy of the galIows and send II
friends back IN theology. Here, The chapter
aud verse of the Bible having failed them
proving, if nny thing, altogether too much
The vital principle of the received aud do
minnnl theology is fear; "ilell-iire" is wha
holds the world in obedience 10 God. Nov
If YOU discard fear ms tho conservative prln
chile in human governments, aud make llieil
wiser Than Gods, you dnnnge the vital prln
ciple of theology. Therefore the unspeakn
bly, horrible in human government must b'
preserved in order to preserve the unalIerl
bly dreadful in the divine government.
this is not the principal foundation on wlicl
the gnllows now rests, we ARE grlevous
mistaken, and it convinced would gladly nc
knowledge our error. On any other theory
we are at loss why ministers Of the gospe
should he found the most dogged defender
Of hanging.
That the sanctiiy of human life is vindicO
ted by choking murderers to death, is sin
ply absurd. Exactly the reverse is the real
~. Accordingly il is those who have til
least instructive respect for life and horror {
bloodshed, who flock to hangngs, which ar
practically nothing but lessons in the schoS