The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-11-27
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TUESDAY srsrnins, - ,-.....d
W S-@-s-----~.-->- - Tsstsec I'm the Uniseu
Adrsnsss |. ,Sou or DR.. Beaie.
es q .1r..-.d 10 the severe sentence pr
- we isse1 :. r,,r,;sh Court upon Sir Jonh ~
so ... .oup,e Of other rich and fash''ha'.
r 80 IN high life, in London. Inc ,i,1.
snsAs-. o.cnnied but TIVE days, perioa "h''n
,r,,u,d NOT have been long enough IN o"i -.
,,.s country, for the discussion OF the me- '., he
.ia.r.ble preliminary point connec.eu - ria,
o,se In fact. Il may be doubted wne.,e' ,rrea
- o,.n. IN such position would ever hs .na
~ .ha United States Our DC"
49,. ,when their villaniy is expoSea' -.
- = themselves wings and escape W :.
-, NJ. 80 In England. the ponce
-. .,r,te arpuseycd, and hundfeuf l'A"s'
s,,se sympathy is felt by judge juror 'ne po
- ,,e nress for aristoeratic or wea"ny e','ie
tn. sentence of the Judge upon these rich o"N
model of brevity and COMPREHENSIVE
80 :, we'll as good sense and Justice Inc OF
"A h.en his friend and associate, out WHILST
,~.A.s.o,,,c;ng sentence he referred to that fact
~ .,,,r., emotion. he declared that the case
-. ,rors, which had occurred under the sta
,ute and that therefore be should aniA tue
,e,aItv which the statute prescrioed ANU ino
nress instead of expressing sympatny Win .As
condemned bankers, uttered decided aisapprooa
zion of the leniency of the law, which only meteo
o,, fourteen years of transportation to the onend
~. whose yllainy had condemned hundreds OF
;,noeent persons to a whole lifetime OF misery ana
want.
IN this country man must be guilty OF two
crimes before he can be punished-frsf the CRIME
,reyed in the Indictment whatever that may De;
rdsocondIv the more heinous and objectionable
crime of Poverty. The last crime Is every "heie
,..oo,,;zed throughout this country rs presenting
,a most satisfactory proof that anindivdualis eapa-
,teof any enormity Here is the case OF Or. beae'
r.scaIlv dentist in Philadelphia, who, AFTER COM
uniting most infamous and dastardiy CRIME, was
with the greatest difficulty, brought to justice
.ortenced to four years and six months imprlson-
nsnt dnstead of the penitentiary for life, as would
have beeu the inevitable fate of any ragged brute
,,bo had violated female without the aid OF chic
rosorrn1 and not one year of that short term has
.xnired before the Governor of Pennsylvania par
d.,,s tho wretch. and turns him loose again upor
society OF course his Excellency holsters him
Golf mn with cart load of petitions from tender
hearted PEOPLE, whose minds are sorely troubled
tbata gentleman q should be held in "durane
/ rile6 and whose souls have been melted to tn
,Ieenest sorrow by Dr. Beale's devotions and psalm
singing since his confinement. Then there is com
munieation from one hundred and fifty dentists ant
twenty-three physicians, stating their belief tina
testimony as to matters transpring under the iniu
cnce of either, is unsafe and unreliable.
If that be the fact the females of Philadelphia
ought to be careful how they put themselves unde
the influence of an agent, by which they may b.
robbed of all that Utmost valuable in life and, a
the same time incapacitated from giving evidence
against the offender 1t strikes us that Governors
and courts should turn deaf ear to all such non
sense that judges and juries should receive the
testimony of respectable persons, ether or no ether
and, to prevent all possibility of such rule opera
ting with hardship upon innocent persons, let them
protect themselves by refusing to administer this
dangerous Advantageous to life. honor and re-
putation-except in the presence of several per.