Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1858-11-10
The Cincinnati kurderers.

The examInallou OF Cnarlts Ioohs M
liam Setter. and VIM. Swift. for the muir
der of Kate Besreau. took place on Mon
day. and resulted in the discharge of Swift,
and the commitment Of Cook and Setter
for trial for murder. The counsel for
the young men spared no efforts TO obtain
their discharge. but the testimony was
conclusive. Young Cook seemed much
affected and was reluctant ID exhibit him.
self to the gaze Of spectators. while Setter
was more bold. and frequently nade sug.
gesiions TO his counsel while gu, stioning
Witnesses. The fathers Of Cook and Sci
ter were present, bronze down with grief
and shame, by the conduct OF their sons.
The relatives of both the young men are
respectable.
We commend TO all parents who have
sons. and sons too growing up 10 idleness
tie Commercials well timed.
LESSON OF THE TRAGEDY
The public mind has seldom been so
shocked. as by the tragedies which took
place in New York and in this city. las,
week. One circumstance connected
with them, which appals the careless and
is suggestive to the thoughtful. is that
young men. of class numerous and rapid
ly on the increase IN our cities, and SC
called respectable, are the actors in
these woeful, real dramas. The young
men were Of good families" that is. a,
the popular phrase goes. were in afuenr
circumstances. The, had nothing 10 Dc
but to spend their time and their fathers
money. They kept bad hours. and o
course, bad company. Whatever goot
advice may have been given them. te
wha'eser excellence of precept they may
have listened. however admirable wer,
the examples their parents placed befor'
them, they were no, legilimately employ
ed. They were exempt from the toll o
the lab rer. The great salutary. savin:
infu, nee OF Labor, were. IN their educa
ton. repudiated. A fundamental law o
their being. essential 10 all human sd
vancement. indispensable always 10 al
men. was, in their training. totally depar
ted from They were taught, if not il
terms. in effect, that they were not of tn
toilers OF the land that labor was degra
dation: that. to be practically useful.
man must be mcnial. How awful j
the expiation of this errorl
In one case, the young man. when TO
late an cndeavor was made 10 restrai
spcndthrift habits, massacred his father
family with Ratchet. and blew out hi
own brains. In the other case. the ysun
man when begged TO accept a positio
in his fathers counting house, that III
habits which were working his ru.
might be broken. replied. q Am la Dafcl
man or an IrisLman Haf 4 should 90
,cork'' and now upon tie brow of Lin
who was too good to 20 TO work. is Il
: brand of blood. What .'Duichmsn c
Irishman," however humble, if hone:
however horny his hands, and rugge
and hard to travel his pa'h, would no'
exchange destines with him. How val
and poor the pomp of wealth before sue
horrible dishonor How pecu'is-ly sol
emn the warning. seen in the lurid ligl
of these deeds of terror. 10 the youn
men swsrming in the cities. whose idI,
ness is matter of pride, in whose high
est ambitions there is no thought of u~e
fitness. With what gha>tly ,isidne>
the old lesson is written anew in blood
rnEsE Is No EXCELLENCE WITHOUT LABoi