The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1854-09-05
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The Sermon OF Facts.
Fron, she, STATE Register. d

<In6 recent Hfufu6fS III lSSW hofh otu Daoon-
I'm are ia 20 wise singular from those which
occur every week, save in the respectabiiity Of
Gle: p6shicn occupied BY the murderers. Every
ssESew York paper contains an account OF deeds
! az yioIence and blood Thereader's eye glances
0rer hen; and unless some peculiar and strange
:attIocitr or detail IS exhibited, NO impression
], "a mad mad npon his mind. Wives are murdered,
or Wounded almost unto death, and yet nobody
slaysis heart; companions quarrel, and the
Ssliafp knife opens the veins Of former friends,
Hf the club breaks their skull, still nobody shld-
! defs, They are so common, that the heart
becomes hard, and the mind fails TO take in the
! ialls sattrocity of the scenes of bloodshed and
srrine. But here are two cases which startle
sgeopje; the one, because the murder was
/ cozpinSt tied in one of tbs most fashionable no.
fa)s as6 TIE State, By, . man who claims to be
pestable, who has hitherto associated with
zen tlsHen, and who belongs to one Of the
s learned ofessions. His victim was also
iespeca Bile citizen. in no wise inferior in posi-
fion TO his murderer, The other case staItles
ffie people, because the perpetrator was man
.of oonside derable literary attainments. connected
NTH the press, and extensively known as an
editor aud writer for the newspapers His
syictim Massa 1inle: child--his own son-too
young to have BY any possibility given offence,
and 90 feeble as to be utterly helpless in the
hands of its destroyer, That another victim
was,not added 10 the fury of the murderer, is
{ m an interference that may be regard
ejI 81 ;Iittls short, OF miraculous.
these Two crimes finish the dark circle Of
siniqpity that now embraces zan grades of so-
{ s;efss Tbey were needed TO furnish the fnll
eadenssnstration Of The n,onstrous evils of In
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