The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-06-22
/ EF,om the Richmond Enquirer. April sEI
Sentenced for Re-
So marks of the Judge.

marks Oh the JuOSes=s
We have already announced that a.
young man named james Man was re-,
ceutly sentenced to twenty years impris-
onment in the ,penitentiary, by the Su-
preme Court at Atlanta, Georgia, for the
crime of seduction. Judge Bingham, in
passing the sentence, said: ' use
. &c The seducer is worse than the robbera
The robber has the courage to epcounter
resistance. He makes his eowardly; at
tack upon unprotected female weakness.
I he seducer is worse than the thief. The
thief steals perishable goods. He steals
happiness and character = yes, he steals
the crown of femaie loveliness, which is
virtue, and then tries to conceal the tur-
pitude of his foul act in the more perfect
ruin of his victim-by SANDER. The Sc
ducer is worse than the poisoner. The
poisoncr plies his black art to destroying
physical life. He puts his woful chalice
to the lips of the spirit, and with fendish
atrocity, by false pretense of affection and
protestations of devotion, allures tender
and delicate, but too devoted lover, to.
partake of crime that entails upon her
lifelong disgrace and misery Thus he
adulterates life's stream, and cerrupts the
cup of human joy. Obtaining possession
of the fair daughters of the State by false
pretenses, he immolates her upon the al
tar of PASSION, and then heartlessly aban-
dons her To the rude blasts of contempt
and misfortune.
| In these general remarks have faint
ly summed up the measure of your iniq
uity. The evidence in this case discloses
that, when you came to Atlanta, you
found a mother, weakly and of delicate
health, passed beyond the g meridian of
life, occupying lowly and unpretending
lodgings, struggling with poverty, but
blessed with the presence and assistance
| of four fair young daughters, who bloom
ed around her humble board like olive
plants. The husband of this widow and
father of these girls had, but short time
before, winged his fight from the bosom
of the family to another and better world,
from the effects of disease contracted in
defense of his country. Well might that
father, as he looked around upon these
tender females, with whom God had
crowned his honest nuptials, conscious of
his patriotic services to our cause, reflect
with consolation /. that his countrymen
would consider it their sacred duty to de.
fend, cherish and protect his family =
And, if passing apprehension crossed
his mind that such wretch as you would
make serpent's path into the Eden he
was about to leave behind, we'll might he
have solaced himself with the confidence
that the very defencelessness and poverty
of his children would commend them 10
pity. The eson of this widow, and brother
of these girls, was then, and is yet, at
the front defending theqcountry from the
inroads of an enemy charged with all bar
barity, but whose cruelties have not yet
surpassed the deliberate wickedness of
your crime. Yes, he is defending that
body of yours with which you have ruth
lessly violated the person of his misera=
Bile sister.
You have insinuated yourself into this
circle, betrayed the condolences of the
mother, and won the affections of the Door
girl whom you have despoiled of her chas-
tity by Systematically shaping your con-
dBct in such a way as best seemed to an
swer your nean purposes At cne time
you would accompany her to public ball,
at other times to parties, and to church,
where the presence of ladies and gentle
men, engaged in honorable attentions to
each other, it would seem, ought to have
rebuked your evil designs, and exercise
the foul devil that prompted you to plot
i against the orphan All the time you
wreathed9 your couutenance in smiles of
tenderness Yes, you t.'.smiled and smiled,
and yet you were villain" You stole
the language Of lovers. sacredly dictated
: to pure and commendable affection, and
prostituted it on the execrable altar of
your lusts. Thus! did you deceive this
confding female into believing you were
wooiug her to the marriage-bed, while, all
the time you were wooinga her teithe bed
4 of ruin and degradation 'e When we con-
slider that your act has consigned her to
a lie of disgrace. or of penitence, the sem
tence of the law am about to pronounce
Ion you, will not appear severe. I, at
least, hope the example may deter others
from the commission of this crime. Those
who do commit it are felons at heart, and
L rejoice that our law so Regards them !"
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