The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-06-17
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M,rAgLAND ABROAD.

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telegraphed to all the papers from
Chicago on the 18th inst. He is evi--
IDENTIFY "doing" the big cities of the
country. and it is to be hoped that
Chicago will not be less careful nor
less appreciative of him than New
York has been. Those who have read
the World have doubtless been much
affected to know that on certain
Wednesday morning he rode down
town alone; that he had copy of the
Tribune in one hand and copy Of the
World in the other; that ne would oc-
casionally read with an unsteady eye
a few pages of the supplement to the
Tribune, clasp it to his knee and CON-
mence muttering; that he rode ali the
way to vesey street; then walked
quickly to q printing Office; stayed n
long time; that he entered the Office of
Mr.. Gerry, on Park Row, and remain
ed there some hours; that he left there
at precisely 2:3O o'clock. and SO on ad
nauseam. For all of these highly in
teresting and important details the
world must forever remain indebted
to the enterprise OF the New York re-
porters. Chicago cannot do more,
she owes it to herself not to do less
One half of the world has an un-
doubted right to bow down aad wor-
ship whomsoeyer it pleases, but this
does not abridge the right of the 9TH
er half to say just what it thinks. The
jury found that Mcfarland, at the
moment of the killing, was insane and
acquitted him. We are therefore to
conclude that man found to be sane
would have been convicted for doing
just as the prisoner did. However
ludicrous this thing of making insani-
ty the patent to heroism may appear,
it is much less ludicrous than serious
and alarming. The theory of insanity
has been pushed so far in this country
that the killing in anger has almost
become conclusive evidence of the in
sanity. Ii is coming to this that men
must shortly 60 about with their lives
in other peoples hands. The capri
ces of the human mind are so great,
and its purposes so perverse. that the
man whom you meet In the street or
highway may conclude, with perfect
safety to himself, to practice little
insanity upon you by proceeding in
the most impromptu manner to shoot
you in sundry disagreeable and vital
places. This doctrine, established
through the ingenuity of lawyers and
the sympathies of juries, has gone
nearly to the extent of granting i'm
mnnity to certain class of assassins.
A few years since Daniel Sickles
shot Keys in the most cool and cow
ardly manner. The world applauded
him because it said that Keys had de-
stroyed the purify of Sckles' wife,
and it pointed with grateful pride to q
sickening confession of shame, pub
lished over the unhappy woman's sig
nature. Subsequent events go to show
that the world was imposed upon by
the artful Daniel; that the pretended
confession was extorted from an inno-
cent wife, as the price of a guilty hus-
bands neck, and Oh the dying bed
and with her latest breath, the long
suffering and martyred woman cast
the foul aspersion from her name and
proclaimed her innocence. Sickles is
unwhipped of justice, and sense Of
the outraged laws of God and society
can only find compensation in the re-
fection and the hope that there is q
hell.
The Cole-Hiscock affair follows in
the same footsteps. An estimable and
useful citizen is murdered. The as.
sassin sacrifices his wife and saves
himself. The jury pronounced Cole
insane and the murdered man whose
mouth can never open in his own de
Ifense, guilty.
The Mcfarland case stretched the
rule much farther. In this case, the
wife, after years OF intoleiable abuse
eliminating in that last and Creates
outrage blow in the face-summon.
her father, her friends and the mar
whom the law calls her husband, anc
informs that husband of her fall ant
resoiute determination to then ant
there forever separate herself from
him. Mcfarland signifies his acqui
esence- The woman procures, q
: length, divorce and then, in order t.
r keep her from marrying another maj
and after vainly trying to sell her sto
len letters to the New York Dcn1ocro
for $100, to be made sensation o
9 Mcfarland skulked into the Iribu,,
Office, shot his unsuspecting victim
= and walked forth to receive tn
plaudits of the mob and a verdic
of insanity and innocense at the hand
of a jury. We honor Mr.. Brick Pome