The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1859-04-28
The Sickles Tragedy.

has been returned by the jury, although it may
not meet with approval from every one, Will not
disappoint the arger::majority. The peculiar cir
cumstances of the affair has rendered this one of
the most interesting ever before an American
jury, and the interest manifested from beginning
to end has been unfagging. We refrain from
expressing our views on tho matter, as it is all
over now. Subjoned we give an extract from
the closing speech of Mr.. Stanton for the de-
fence; He says -
No wife yields herself to the adulterer's en-
brace till he.has weaned her love from her hus-
band When her body has once been surren-
dered to the adulterer she longs for the death of
her husband, and life is often sacrificed by the
cup Of the poisoner or the dagger or pistol of
the assassin iss
The next greatest tie was that of parent and
child If in Gods prominence, a man has not
cnly watched over the cradle Of his child, but
over the grave of his offspring and has witnessed
earth committed to earth, ashes, and dust to
dust, be knows that the love of parent for his
child is stronger than death. The bitter lamen-
L
has been wrung from many a parents heart.
But when the adulterer's shadow comes beteewn
the parent and child ii casts over both gloom
darker than the grave. What agony is equal
to his who knows not whether the children gath
cred around his board are his own offsprings or
an adulterous brood Matched in his bed To
the child it is still more disastrous Nature
designs that children shall have the care of both
parents. The mothers care is the chief bless
ing to her child-a mothers honor its priceless
inheritance. But when the adulterer enters q
family the child is deprived of the care of one
parent, herhaps Of both. When death, in Gods
providence, strikes mother from the family,
the deepest grief that preys upon husbands
heart is the loss of her nurture and example to
his orphan child, and the sweetest conversation
betweenth parent and child is when they talk
of the beloved mother who is gone But how
can father name lost mother to his child, and
how can daughter bear to hear that mothers
name without blush? Death is merciful to.
the pitiess cruelty of him whose lust has st aimed
the fair brow of innocent childhood, by corrupt
ing the heart of the mother, whose example
must stain the daughters life The pride and
glory of the family is its band of brothers and
sisters sprung from the same love- with the same
blood coursing their veins. Their hearts are
bound together by cord, which death cannot
severe; for wide asunder as may be the graves
of a household, varied as may be their lives here
on earth, when lives rough ocean is passed soon
er or later they will rejoice in heavenly court,
a family in heaven But when the adulterer
puts young wife asunder from her husband,
her child is cut off from all kindred fellowship.
The companiouship and protection of brother
OF the same blood can never be hers. No sister
OF the same blood can ever share her sorrow or
her joy. Alone thenceforth she must journey
througe life, bowed down with mothers shame.
Nor does the evil stop there 1t reaches to the
aged and venerable parents of the wretched hus-
band and the ruined wife, and stretches around
to the circle Of relatives and friends that cluster
around every heart. Such are the results of the
adulterer's crime on the home-not as it is paint
cd by the poets fancy, but the home as it is
known and recognised by the law-as it exists
in the household, and as it belongs to the family
of every man. They show that the adulterer is
the foe of every social relation the DESTROYER of
every domestic affection, the fatal enemy of the
family and the desolator of the home The
crime belongs to the class known in law as n,ala-
an se-ini -fraught with ruin to individuals
o1l Il
ture, we can easily perceive why it is that in Ho-
ly Writ the crime of the adulterer is pronounced
to be one which admits of no ransom and no re-
compense.
Mr.. Stanton was followed by Mr.. Brady for
the defense and Mr.. Ould for the prosecution,
when the jury was charged and retired to the
jury room.
The jury having remained out but a few min
,Ites, returned into Court and rendered a verdict
of Nor GUILTY. The announcement was re-
ceiyed with wild applause by the audience which
could not be suppressed. Mr. Sickles was i'm
inediately discharged amid the congratulations
OF his friends.
.sickies looked very pale and asked to be let
cut
The crowd took him up and bore him along
ont Of the room.
AT this momept-the news reached the Avenue,
anq crowds came rushing up, men, women, and
Children, IN spite of the rain that was falling.
S'ckieS was carried to the East end of the City
Hall, where the crowd surrounded him and pre-
vented him from getting into the carriage.