The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-07-21
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From the Baltimore Sunday Telegram, j
CRIME TRIUMPHANT.

To the G God citizen who looks anxious
y for the restoration of law and order, who
deprecates the generalization of revolu-
ton, and through the virtue of the mass
es seeks for national prosperity and happi.
ness, our criminal records present ahideous
spectacle, and kindle sorrow while awak-
ening apprehension. The long catalogue
of offences, unrelieved by palliation, rolls
its huge coils before him, surmounted by
q gorgon head, whose magnitude is only
equalled by its demon ferocity. Encour-
aged by a strange impunity, it daily adds
new victims TO swell its growth till law
ignored stands paralyzed spectator, and
justice impeded and embarrassed reluctant
ly sheathes her helpless sword. Since the
day when civilized society redeemed this
savage wilderness and ins. ituted for mutu-
al protection code of wholesome laws,
down TO the present time, no epoch can be
found blackened with such terrible euor-
mites as the present, or when crime grown
insolent demanded immunity. Yet an
Almighty tribunal will bring this terrible
indictment against our compromised COM
monwealth, that in all the light of civiliza-
ton, intelligence and Christianity, the
hand of violence sported with the majesty
of the law, the blood of the innocent
clotted unavenged by the sentence of our
courts, and.the tread of acquitted MUIR
derers struck terror 10 the quiet household
That such is the case, let recent illustra-
ton suffice to attest.
10 avenge some petty feud, man per-
secutes with relentless malignity an Of
Tending brother, till death relieves the vic.
tim Of his Vaccinations from further in
jury, when, with fendish cruelty, he turns
upon the widowed wife and her helpless
children, and grinds them with oppressive
heel. For fifteen years, unchecked by
even the dictates of decency, this merciless
inquisitor, impelled by innate cruelty and
fired with an inordinate lust for the Or
phans' pittance, pursues his wicked annoy
ances, and afflicts with treacherous priva-
tious the bereaved and fatherless family.
The widows tears and the orphans wants
make music that delights his hungry soul.
The avaricious wretch longs for their pal.
try inheritance and hopes starvation may
accomplish his dabolical will. 1t fails,
however, and maddened with the prospects
of their life, be adopts the dark expedient
Of open, deliberate murder, to gain the GOV.
eted prize. Taking with him his own
children, whom, under his responsibility
to God, be should have educated to the
paths Of justice, religion and morality, he
tutors them to his own wickedness and
gives them first lesson in open unblush-
ing felony. Taking advantage of the men,
ial fiaiction which God had visited upon
them, he makes them the scapegoat for his
own deed of blood, he throws upon them
the blame of his own act, and unable to
restrain his demoniac joy over the shocking
consummation of his guilty plans, insults
and taunts the bercaved and heart-broken
widow bending over the mangled corpses of
her murdered child and brother. Having
disposed of all who could be competent
witnesses of his villainy, he mocks at the
grief of a stricken family, defes the power
and majesty of the law, and sending his
irresponsible children to be targets for the
sword of justice, rides away contented and
boastful of the success of his wiles.
We have not the patience or the nerve
to 60 through the shocking details of that