The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1853-06-17


Lieutenant Gorernor--LESTER BLISS.
Supreme Judge--THOMAs w. BARTLEY.
Treasurer Of Staie-JOHN G.RRESLIN.
Secretary Of State WILLIAM TREvlTT.
Member BID p. .Works. AYNE GRISW0LD
Attorney Gensrql--GEoRGE w. McCOoK.
Se 'isal Comfy ticket. ailoa saW
For Skeri6-JOfiN B. .FRUCHEY.aqE lem
For Commssioner CLARK II. RICE iaai
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MURDER ar MiLwAuKrs. The firsi
trial of Miss Wheeler, a, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, noticed on our FIRE, page, 10,
suited in a disagreeman, Of the Jury. ~
The cause Of The awful deed for which
she was tried, was that the man, she shot
publicly boasied among his pot.house
companions, that he had seduced and
abandoned her. The ,cfiminal law ol
Wisconsin, like ours in Ohio, gave her
no redress against her seducer, nor
against his infamous boaslings, and the
outraged and betrayed woman Eemcdied
the neglect Of the law by the death Of
her seducer. Il was the only seli,de-
Tense lef. 10 hss from his brutality, The
act was dreadful, but who will say ihai i,
was a crime not mingled with jasiice.---
The seducer and boas,er Of his own H..
famJ deserved his fate, and we do moi
believe. under such circumstances, a
Jury will be found who will execute the
fall force Of the law upon Miss Wheeler,
and we cannot bu, sympathise with the
perverted humanity that induces this re-
luciance. aegowod .gng o8 Is
This is bud stn,e of,hings Bu, such
wrongs are not rare, though the facts
make but little impression upon our Leg,
islaiive bodies, whose wan: Of morals too
ohen cause them 10 reioice that woman's
weakness is so unprotected that she is
Isft d lawful prey 10 the specious but Dc.
signing villain, who thanks to a kindred
feeling in law-makers,. goes s'unwhipt Of
jus.ice.n Impure associations lead some
men 10 form such en estimate Of The sex
10 which belong their mothers, sisters,
aud oiien daughters, that they gravely
prate that a law punishing seduction
would be dangerous, as II nigh, work in.
justice from false evidence given by de-
signing women. But the jurors to de-
tevmine such cases would be men, able
and keen to detec, pre.ence, and there
seems 70 be no thought OF tho other side
of the picture that where real, mcn-
atrous wrong takes place-the law is
wholly inefiicien. TO protect virtue, and
that the consequences TO the misled and
offending woman are almost always more
dreadful than death itself. !5 ,iIalns3
We accidentally, no. long since, were
advised Of the details ofa case, IN another
par, Of this State, in which young NO.
man, Of moderate education and advan-
lages, wss made, under unqueslionable
proofs Of promise Of marriage, the prey
Of one OF these dissoluts harpies, who
believe sha, unresirainod sensuali.y is
something 10 be proud Of. She had a
child by her seducer, and too del;cnte TO
seek the coarse remedy provided by our
law, in cnses Of illegiiimaie children, she
lahors like a slave 10 maintain his child,
abandoned by him, from pauperism. -
Conscious Of his wrong, he keeps his
means beyond tho reach Of civil suit
for breach Of the promise be made, 10
consumma,e his corrupt purpose, ard
paasaRs anapscted by a misjudging world,
fmapssd and csrressed, while his victim,
aioue suffers the penalty Of the offence
Iagains. social laws. The offender too,
is q member Of the law profession, con-
scious ofahia security, and pro6sing by
the neglec. Of .he laws, which protect,
and favor acts like his. 10 The conienl--
plaiion Of the consequences Of this stale
Of things, sucb sindcaiiona Of their
trampled but erring nature, as Miss
Wheeler has SO fearfally given, end Tor
which now che may possibly so fearfully
suffer, should be a lesson 70 law-makers.
L should ieach them sha. governments
must do more than protect property
That il must prossci reputation also.--
That j. ought 70 throw safeguard
around female virtue: not as our laws
COW do, BY permitting prcscniment or
indictment against one who should slig-
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