The weekly clarion., 1872-07-25

The New York World of the 9TH pr
sents the following:

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The New York World of the 9TH pre-
sents the following:
All moral sentiment is hostile to muir
dor in any degree, and all civilized sys-
TENS Of law make the act criminal even
under many eXtenuating circumstances
yet all the moral and legal education III
the world can never wholly repress that
instinct for natural justice in humanity
which, ''ln erring reasons spite, con
dones, If it does not fully Justify, the
spontaneous eXaction of Il life for that in
tensity Of personal injury wheretor any
possible deliberateness of legal reparatiOn
Is but constructive insult added thereto.
Few human beings have been without
experiences of that tremendous spasmod-
ic impulse to kick perfect strangers to
| themselves from no other defnable
prOvocation than mere impersonal ex-
preston of face, or utterly irrelative atti-
tude, or Observation-Disclosures man
ner Of eating an apple in public; and as
these strangers can be justly accused of
no other merit of such exasperated feel
ing than that Of being simply ''kickable," :"
so there are some characters, of Il con-
stitutionally shot-dompelling class, whose
destruction at the hands of those whose
ungovernable antipathies they have cas-
| ually excited can be made to appear no
more atrOcious to the average instinct
than as a kind of necessity Of their OBJ
viOusl y fshootable" attractions In Mem
phis, on Monday last, one DIR. Dameron,
who had shot fatally Mr.. Jones, was
triumpantly acquitted upon the strength
Of letter written from jackson, Miss,
IN which the slain man had irresistibly
worried the doctor into unavoidable hom-
lclde. a former friend of the family,
Mr.. Jones, addressed DIR. Dameron as a
friend, and, in the terms herewith quot
ed from a copy of the epistle in the
Memphis Appeal Dear sir" he wrote,
Il sent you a letter the other dav.
through Maggie, finding fault with YOU
for telling her untaverable things that
others had told you about me. | now
write to you for an entirely different pur-
pose; and anything | may say that may
CRATE against your feelings, or that you
may think | ought not to say, must be |
taken as an error of the head, and not of |
the heart. Maggie loves me, that Won |
know, and, instead Of our separation con |
querlng our love it only infames it and |
~ N"J IONC CttSII OlIGI Tie more, ana !
no matter what else may happen, the
feeling will never lessen, but continue
growing in strength. You know YOU
are not happy-that is a word not in
your vocabulary-you have ever been
Jealous and distrustful, and must have
known that Maggie did not love you.-
AT least If you could not see it others
could. wish to do nothing wrong
God knows that | have done enough iniu-
ry to myself, but have never wronged
any other person, and if | have wronged
you IN loving Maggie, then | am truly
sorry but you know yourself that it was
love neither of us sought, but which
could no more be controlled than a noun
tam stream. Maggie knows much bet
ter than you all my failings, but still she
owes me. Now, sir, these are plain
facts, patent to you as myself, and now
or proposition: | am willing to wait
Years for her. Such love as She bears
or me is not found every day, year or !,
century. You may think | am mistaken.
" ell, if | am, let the talt rest with me. l
Would you, through selfshness, render
Wo creatures unhappy? | know you :
would not; you have shown your gener-
slty too often for me to believe that .
Atter arguing this point about selfshness 3
n a truly affecting manner, and plead
ng that maggie" may be at least al
owed to remain where he can see her as o
sister every day until the law or death Ii
hall make her free, the writer adds il
Oh SIR, F.! pray you to agree to this p
Ask Maggie if she does not wish it. IF h,
ne does not, then l am miserable inded OF
ne snail live away from me, so she is in h.
le same town, and will pay all debts t
her contracting and supply all her q
ants, Now, to any one who did not er
now the circumstances as YOU do. this IN
lght seem foolish, but you know that I O.
ean what | say, and l fear the conse- r.
lences to her of refusal on your part. he
on know her suicidal nature as we'll as of
do. DO not refuse me. Think over on
ASK your heart if you would not be Ii,
lppler, and | will bless you forever St
waning and hoping favorable reply,
ID wishing you well, am your errinp
lend, b. Jones" Now, as this MAC.
e, OF whom this Mr.. Jones, wrote thus -:
genlousiy and persuasively to Doctor ~
ameron, happens to be the latter's wife. l'i
letters commended its writer to the ON ON
cIplent so seductively as person of ir- uI1 uI1
aslble "shootability, that the doctor I"'
Is helpless against the impulse to saIIv an
'th with pistol and dc Justice to the pri
cullar attractions of his infatuating Inn
respondent. There ensued a trial for On
lrder, OF course; but the jury could ian
see anything in the shooting of the ma
liter Of such letter as lea
above but the fulfillment of the natn- OPT
destiny of gentleman against whom con
Oaded weapon would almost d. aas, con
itself by the law of unavoidable gravi- cal
ion. qui
am,
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