Spirit of the times. [volume] (Ironton, Ohio) 1853-1858, 1854-07-04

atmosphere OF vice md pollution be. |
cause she was driven from the saloons
OF rank and fashion. ri ,t4 7i
She married second husband, from
whom she soon separated, and her af.
ter career Is too dark to be traced by
the pen of the most abandoned journal.
let. The crime for which she is tried
and imprisoned is only the last act
which she was left free to commit, nfter
years Of the most unblushng profligacy;
and yet i, speaks with words OF terrible
import to every daughter in the land,
whether highborn or rPlebian.
There seems not tho least palliating
circumstance in oil the history Of this
terrible murder. There was no more
provocation than occurs to almost every
ono in his daily intercourse with these
around him, in matters Of business.
Tie murdered man kept a grocery
store, TO which she resorted TO purchase
articles for her table. 1t has been ask.
ed BY those who doubted her guilt, or
rather, by those who attempted to prove
her not guilty, how could she, hish-born
as size was, be suspected OF intimacy
with the keeper of a grocery, that would
lead her to plot his dcath?" Alas! what
is it to be high born? II does not seem
10 be thought so great departure from
the dignity Of noble birth 10 live life OF
crime--provided it is done in associa-
ton with the high born.---as to minglc
in honorable intercourse with the Iowly.
The highborn lady had become a
drunkard, AMI was supported by the
wages OF sin; but this did not degrade
her in the eyes Of some, as it did TO ac.
cuse her of conversation with an honest
shopkcepcr. 'oa oI ''.ti-' ''
She had entered their house, un5idden
on any occasion of feslivi,y, and disturb.
cd their guests by her unseemly deport.
mcnt. They requested her to leave.
During the four succeeding weeks, she
resumed her ordinary calls, on business,
anil manifested no irritation, except it
arose on some trining dispute; yet III her
heart she was nourishing hatred and
vengeance. The offence was very slight;
no more than would justify murder
every week. How vindictive and ma
lignant must be her temper, to meet foI
weeks, with smile, those whose death
! she was plapning, and to accomplish
which she had purchased tile poison,
.nnd decided how il should be admins
,erel. There hal been no evidence ol
suspicion oil previous insanity. She was
, intoxicated at the time of the o!le nsc, ,bu
. ii is not probable that she remained in
I toxica,ed four weeks, or that she bough
the poison in a Fl, of intoxication, bu
I deliberately. and in her right min |.
She evidently intended to poison thu
whole family, and there is no possibl,
S motive but revenge, ana for 1t there ha
n appeared on her countcnanee not sha
c dow Of rcmotsc. She appears daily be
fore :he multitude, in the elegant appar
. cl Of an evening rawing. room; AM
i. walks with tho same stately step an
u proud bearing, from the dungeon to tn
court room, as we might expect, in tn
j. la,s Of her innocence, she would ,rea
the stately halls of her fathers.
II Oh! is it not sad sight for the heal
If of woman, to see one, whom many ca
;. remember happy schoolgirl in thel
:, own ranks, now the tenant of gloom
. cell, with her name emblazoned in th
columns of every newspapcrin the land
:. and appended to it a list of the darkes
d crimes which disgrace humanity?
i. II | were making it more public b
4 this recital, my woman's heart woul
c prompt me to be silent; but the girls c
n every boarding school would do we'll t
II ponder upon such a tale, ..-.
!. Here is n woman from the circles o
/. beauty, rank, and fashion; elegant, tai
). ented, and accomplished; at their age
n no more likely to come to such fat
S than they; now standing convicted Of
capital crime, and doomed by the la,
It to an ignominious death.
S If the principles Of a holy religion
n which teaches forgiveness, ong. suffering
/, and mercy, had early taken root in he
r. heart, she would have learned to COVER
ir a naturally waywarl temper; and the
st driven from homo and all its endcal
$ ments, would have cast herself upo
!. Him who never lorsakes those who pr
! their trust in him. saat1 ~ a4ita -
For parents, too, is it not solem
ID warning? They have no right to tran
1t pie upon the affections of their children
r. and they have no no right, even for 81
Q. and disobedience, to cast them fortl
III (riendless and unprotected, upon hear
l. less world.
|. The sons and daughters Of the higt
e. born are taught to look with contemI
l. upon honest toll; and when nislortun
comes, as come it may 10 the richest an
$, prou;lest, what is to restrain them frol
IS preferring sin and crime, with life
t. ease, TO labor in the walks Of the hun
ID BILE? And.when parents thus educat
rs and thus abandon, how can they expe
I'd aught else than retribulion like this?
Of She may he saved from the gallow
c. but would It not be more terrible pul
,e ishment TO live, and walk the cart
as branded with so many crimes, in Il
ct face of mockins world?
DR. Her conscience, indeed, seems TO
ly dead. There is no betrayal Of shan
II. or repentance in all her deportment;ar
NJ her startling threats and confession
make the most Indifferent blush for Ii
!, manitv hnf she shfinks from so terrih