The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-12-06

For thus | put it: Either ,tlhlas wis,
Az John affirm, a villain and q tlilef,
A creature lost 30 shame and Of bnsest
heart
Or else, which Il the view that 1ysias
takes,
He was q rash and visionary inNn
Whose faitli was firm, who had no
thought of crlnie,
But whom q terrible mistake drove
mad.
Take but Johns view, and all to me Is
blind.
CaIl him a villain who, with greed Of
gain,
For thirty silver pieces sold his Lord.
Does not the bribe seefli all too small
and nieany
He held the common ptirse, and, were
he thief,
Had daily power to steal, and lay aside
A secret and accommodating flmM;
So doing. he had nothing risked Of
fame;
While here be braved the scorn Of all
the world.
Besides. why chose they for their
alm0ner
A man 80 lost to shame, 80 foul with
gree,lS
Or why. from some flve-scOre OF trust
ed men,
Choose him as one apostle among
twelvep
Or why, ifhe were known tUbe so vile,
(Alld who carl hide bis baseness at all
times?
Keep him in close communion to the
last!
Naught In his previous life. or acts, or
words,
Shows this cOnsulnmate villain that
full grown,
Leaps all at once to such height of
crime.
Again, how comes IL that this wretch,
whose heart
Is cased to shame, filings back the pal
try bribe!
And, when he knows his master Is con-
denlned,
Rushes In horror out to seek hisdeath?
With fingers pointed at him In the
crowd
Did all men fee his presence, till he
found
Life to be intolefablep My, not 20:
Death came too close Upon the heels Of
crime.
He ha.l but done what all his tribe
deemed Just
All the great mass II mean the upper
class
The Rabbis. all the Pharisecs and
Priests
Ay. and the lower mob aasweli. who
cried. ..F
"Give lls Barabas Christlls TO the
cross !s
These men were all Of them on .Ititlas'
side,
And Judas had done naught aglinst
the law.
Were he this villain, he Ind but to say,
II followed Christiis till | iotnd 1t last
He aimed at power to overthrow the
State.
I did the duty Ofan honest man.
! traitor! !-you are traitors who re-
prove. -
Besides. such villains scOfn the worlds
reproOf.
Or might he say--"Yoa Call this act a
cFimes
What crime was 1t to say / know this
lnah!
I said mo III ofhiln. Efcflme there be,
"Twas yours whO doomed him Unto
death. INF mine. y
AsiIlain vas NJ. W BaFrahAs was.
Biit dill lar-ilaS % and hang hlIn-
selfs
Weary Of life the murderer andthlef.
This coarse and vulgar way will never
do.
Grant him a villain, all his acts must
he
Acts Ofa villaln; fyoit OIee admit
RemOrse 90 bitter TINT It leads 10 death.
And death 20 instant on the heels Of
crime.
You grant i spirit sensitive u shame,
So sensitive that life can yield no joys
To COunteshaIance one bad aCt--but
then
A nablrs such as this though led
astmy,
When greatly tempted, Is no thorough
Was tlie temptation great! Could such
Il bFibe
Tempt siich nature 10 4 crime like
thIs?
I sty. to me It simply seems absurd.
Peter at Ieast was not 70 sensitive.
He cursed and swctc, denying that be-
knew
Who the man Chfisstis ssas;butafter All
He only wept--lie never hanged hinfs
self.
But take the other view that Lyslas
takes.
All is at once consistent, clear, conn
pleGe.
Firm q the faith tilat CIrsiiis was biz
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