The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1854-12-06

who presided at court IN which d man haniou
Green was convicted of murder, and 1t be-
came his duty 70 pronounce sentence OF death
upon the cul prit, He called the prisoner be-
fore him and said to him:
.Mr. Green, the jury by their verdict say
you are guilty of the murder, and the law
saws YOU are to. be hung. Now, | want you
and all your friends down on Indian creek to
know that it is not who condemns you, butlt
is the Jury and the law Mr.. Green, the law
allows YOU time for preparation, and SO the
court wants to know what time you would like
to be hung?'
To this the prisoner replied:
esMay it please the court, | am ready any
time; those who kill the body have no power
to kill the SOUL; my preparation is made, ana
am ready to shffer at any time the court may
appoint.
The Judge then said
"Mr. Green, you must know that tits a very
serious matter to be hung; it cannot happen to
man more than once in his life, and you had
better take all The time you can get; the court
will give you pntl this day fours weeks. Mr.
clerk look at THE almanac and see whether this
day four weeks comes on Sunday
The clerk locked at the almanac, as directed,
and reported that ''that day four weeks came
on Thursday
The Judge then said:
sMr. Green the court gives you until this
day four weeks, at which time you are to be
hung?"
The case was prosecuted by James Turney,
esq. the attorney general OF the State, who
here interposed:
"May it please the court on solemn occa-
sions like the present, when the life of hui
man being is 10 be sentenced away for crime
by an earthly tribunal, it is usual and proper
for courts to pronounce a formal sentence IN
which the leading features of the crime shall
be brought to the recollection of the prisoner,
and he be duly exhorted to repentance, and
warned against the judgment in the world to
comep'
To which The Judge replied:
"Oh, Mr.. -Turney, Mr. Green understands
the whole matter as well as if had preached
to him month! He knows he has got to be
hung this day four weeks. You understand ii
in that way, Mr.. Green, don't you?'
eyes" said the prisoner
Upon which the Judge ordered him to be
remanded to Jail, and the court adjourned
If all the worlds stage, and men and wo-
men merely players, where is the audience and
orchestra to come from. That's sumner.
We pity the man who wears out his ener-
gies in the accumulation of riches, which when
amassed, he will have lost the capacity to en-
10y. He finds himself at the end of his labors
guest at his own feast, without an appetite
for its daints les. The wine of life is wasted,
al ,otb;,o ran, npc but tho lanc The wan,
sympathies of his heart have been choked by
his inexorahle spirit of avarice, and they can
not be resuscitated The fountain head Of his
enthusiasm is sealed; he looks at all things in
nature and in art with an eye of calculation;
hard matter Of fact is the only pabulum his
mind can feed on; the elastic spring Of i'm
pulse is broken; the pocsy of existence is gone.
Are wealth and position an equivalent to
these losses2 Is not the millionaire, who has
acquired wealth at such cost, a miserable
bankrupt? In cur opinion, there is little to
choose on the score of wisdom between the in
dividual who recklessly squanders his money
as he goes along in folly, and the false econo
mist who denies himself the wholesome enjoy
which, in the hardening process of scraping up
he had been too mean to spend, and too self
ish to give away.
The only rational way to live is to mix Ia
Dor with enjoyment-a streak of fat and
streak of lean. There is nothing like streaky
life; a pleasant mixture of exertion thank
fulness, loge, joty and .repose. The man
who slaves for riches makes poor return to
that God who took the trouble of making him
for a better purpose.