New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-24

| % Mar "rs ny toe raj motto statutes, the Lie o
t,e miserable Michel was forfeted and it becam
tbe duty Of Mr.. Justice Withers to communicate b
The cuprit that interesting Intelligence. This wa
done in a speech so long that the prisoners leg
must have ached while hearing it, even if no felt NJ
cIick in the neck.
! The cruelty of thus ecturing at such pu un
consconabe length an unhappy creature upon
| his own approaching demise, would seem, in q
measure, 10 restore the obsolete but wholesome
| fortunes of the Middle Ages, for which the ANA
ieurs South Carolina have been go long itching,
and which they have it must be confessed, inflated
passably. Tbespeech Of Mr.. Justice Wthers must,
if it had been continued only few moments longer,
| hare killed Francis Michel on the spot He began
with an alluson to his own painful sensiblity
and to the mid nature of South Carolina Judges in
general He then discoursed upon the fact that the
| prisoner had mother; and, having depicted tho
maternal agonieswbeD ntelIig' nee Of hersonseIecu-
! ton should reach her, he added: 81 am pa
"rent myself" and, to intensity the expression, OBJ
served that he " had long been parent, bis heart
having often been called upon " to bleed, and also
ton TO the youthful Witberses. Passing from pri
yats 10 public considerations, Francis Michel was
informed that the great interests of society are par
amount to the interests or feelings OF single n-
diydaaI," and that therefore the iUsle individual
Withers must, although it hurt him never so much
to do go eend the other single individual Michel to
the gallOua
All this would give one more decided
impression Of the Observation-Disclosures Of the
judge if we did not know beforehand that Aichel
is not to be stransIed except in tNeoIy. Cheering
himself little by dwelling upon the hideous enor-
nifty of the crime of assisting runaway slave
Mr.. Justice then emitted short discourse upon
the nature of that species of property the
wicksdness of corrapting 1.-THE sin of " swerV-
ing ii from its aegi,nce"-tbe villsny OF turo-
50 inq il loose" " armiag it with Dagger ana
" preparing it for treason, stratagem, and sPots'
Warming with his subject, this magistrate OF many
words for the particular benefit Of FRANCIS Michel,
gave his views of religion, and especially OF Northern
religion and the ministers thereof, and the prOes
sors thereof taking care to communicate to Francis
the thrilling fact that WI5erfOrce was ga |lld
CRUSADER" and that he the said Michel was to
have the proud privilege of being hanged by virtue
of law not less than " one kandred years ola "a
law to be Iigdly enforced against the multitude
nous thieves who have been spawned upon this
country by fierce fanstcsm on the part OF
" some, by cheap, hypocritical, pretenslve vag-
" abond philanthropy upon the part OF many more,
" all seized upon and moulded into Homogeneous
" but corrupt by the greedy lovers OF political
"power and general plumber"
How the unhappy Michel Jere this sesquipe-
daliau bombarjmeLt we are not informed; but,
if not too mueh confused TO improve the opPof-
tuuity, his views of men and things must have
been considerably extended, SoF he heard the
Rev. Mr. ChesYer and the Rev. Mr. Beecher sPe-
ken of as pair of hypocrticaf parsons" and vas
told that he wa, probably the anrefectlng instru-
"ment" Of those diyines he hes-d short discourse
on the Constitution of South Carolina and the ener-
nifty of seducing he slave of ian honestbutcher vas
pointedly cons dered. The culpTit was charged
with stealing not merely slave, but slave OF q
butcher Of high character, slave sound IN hlao
and in wind, alhye worth thirteen hundred del-
"lars" In this act, according 70 the Court, Michel
was guilty of e, complication of crimes, viz: IN
United States; violation of :he Constitution Of
South CorCh1n; felony; "unco godlines";
"rigid righteousness y; the breaking of law one
hundred years old; secret and stealthy meice;
being % tantsd by Cheever; being " corrupted
by Beecher; beirg an ignorliaious tool" "For
/" all this" said his Honor. "you deserve Ia be
" hanged, and you shall be haeged; ony, markyou!
you are not to be hanged; for although say you
are TO be- hanged, his Exoellency the Governor,
Will probably say that you are not to be hanged,
" although you, and your poor mother too, may
" consde, yourself as goGd.as hanged while Jou are
q" in this Court; fer tbs Court is determined to
/" hang you on the last Friday in March, while the
Governor is equally determined thasIOu shall
Z" not be hanged ON the last Friday in Mach. And
"may the Lord have mercy on Jour SOL; although
/" il ia my opinion tina. you had better apply to the
"Goyernor; and afssr you are hanged, may this be
ga warning to you and may you cease to be felon,
"aDd lead cody, righteous and sober life, beirs
GEO longer instigsted BY the Rev. 4essrs. Cheeysr
" and Beeeher, and by the devil, 70 run away with
ga niger worth thirteen hundred dollar, the
"prcperty Of an honest butcher, in violation Of
"two Constitutions and various laws, some o. them
at least one hundred years old. South Carolina is
capable Of benignant mercy; you are to ba hanged
81 next March; and think, if you had rather nos
" undergo the operation, you bad bettee speak TO
" Inc Governor"
Those wLO are curious in such things would
give something, We fancy, to knew what effect
lIx.f. e