Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-09-25
Melancholy Suicide.

friend informs by letter under date of the lh inst
that James Henry Robinson son of William Robinson Esq.,
of the GOdsbOro Tribune committed suicide on the l!h
nst by shooting himself in the head with pistol NO
has been assigned for the terrible act He was about
IL years DID, had been student of the University and bid
fair to be talented and useful We deeply sympathse
with his father this his hour of affection The unfor
tunate young man was buried In Gods6oro on sunday as
Charlotte Democrat.
The foregoing melancholy announcement is alas too
true. made in this paper last week. for the rea
that fathers pen refused to make the mournu record
To admit it now-to realize that beloved James is no
MORE hardest task of heart not altogether
stranger heretofore to and affection To write
his euogy were unwilling task- written in heart
where will long, long remain He ninteen years. eight
months twenty days old at his death, and we can
safely he spoke angry word in our
His brilliant mind gentle disposition and fragile form had
made him avorte with every member of his afflicted
family and especially endeared him to father at whose
knee he raised and by whose lips he taught till he
entered the University in 1856 of how we loved him. and
were loved in turn, this is not the place to speak
more duul and afeconate and brother never lived
a more chivarous youth and devoted friend never died
was, however, but mortal and such, had his faults
For them ask what he would ne have craved the
ercse that virtue charity the part those
who would scan his youthful acts with too much severity
The mind well the body subject to disease and we
have much melancholy proof Of the diseased state IN
to which our dear sons mind had alen have also
abundant Consoaoy proof of the happy relations IN wien
he stood to member OF MS DeraNeu we
before us a letter, written to younger brother, now
absent home the evening preceding his melancholy
end and would indeed be taken the index of conted
mind But alas alas. there could have been contempt
ment there.
Did we say that knew cause calculated to trouble
his mind and induce melancholy say that we knew no
engrossed his whole soul and tortured his mind
we would violence tuhnd to the of the dead
And did wetae that causeddwe give that incident form
and shape before curious world might beradventure
do injustice to the living Let it then sleep in the grave
with hmlet youthful and untmey end be forgotten by
all but those who can like his dsconsoate father dwell on
the memory of his virtues with of his vices to interrupt
meditation Concerning him, would correct one error
into which Petersburg Express has fallen He was
not the youth that saved Dr. Davss life That youth
nearly three years his Junior and still lives to lament broken
hearted the unmey fate him whom he loved his OWL
soul. Unhappy' son! Time, under Providence, may as
suace our sorrow but can never eace thy image from
heart We will try kiss the rod with which we have
been smten but we earnestly pray God, that fatherne
human being may feel the pang that wrngs our heart
1t avails not for us to offer any words of coincidence
or consolation to our friend Mr. Robinson in this hour
his deep affection God alone who tempers the wind to thu
shon lamb can bind up the wounds of the brokenhearted
Time the great assuager of sorrow, exert its sooh
ing influence before other thoughts assert thei
power.
How loved or worthy of love the deceased was, it
not for us to say. We have beard him spoken of
youth of high promise fine intellect and generous dispt
b stion-one of whom almost any future of honor NIGH
have been predicted That is past and his relatives or
alone with their sorrow That sorrow is sacred. LIZ
% us not intrude upon it with an idle curiosity.