The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-01-30
Retribution.
HoSoLULU. January, 1875.

On the evening Of the fourteenth Of January,
1858, Just as the Emperor and Empress Of France
were approaching the Grand Opera House in
Paris, Felice Orsini, a noted Italian revolutionist,
hurled a hand grenade at their carriage, intend
ing 10 take the life of one or both of them. \
few days afterwards, when the late Emperor was
delivering the opening address before the French
Legislature, referring to the attempt made upon
his life, he said Assassinations never serve
the cause of the assassins. Neither they who
struck Julius Caesar, nor they who struck Henry
", profted by their murder" lie never gave
utterance to a truer sentiment than this. &" He
that takelh the sword shall perish by the sword"
OF the Senators who c~onspired against and struck
Caesar it is said not one died a natural death and
of the Caesars who waded to empire, knee-deep
in blood, only three came to their end in peace.
Francois Ravaillac, who assassinated Henry ~.
of France, did not profit much by his murderous
deed, for he was mercilessly torn to pieces by
horses, under the sanction of the French Parlla-
ment. Agrippina induced her husband, Claudius
Cesar, to adopt Nero, her own son by a previous
marriage. Then to clear the way for the eleva-
ton of her fayorite boy to power, she admins
tered poison to her husband. But she was visi-
ted with severe retribution for crime, for, Nero
having become alienated in his affections towards
her, she was put to death by his own order. Or
sini, the would-be assassin of Louis Napoleon,
whose hair, it is said, became grey In a single
night from the bitterness OF the grief he endured,
suffered the penalty of death for the murderous
attempt he made to take the Emperor's life.
There is nothing more certain than that the
sin of the wrong-doerw will overtake him and that,
in some form or other, he will suffer for his obi
quities. No man can depart from the line of
moral rectitude without suffering severely at some
time or other for his crimes. The history of the
world is full Of examples, which SHOULD go to
deter men from perpetrating foul and atrocious
deeds. But il seems as if nothing will restrain
the vicious and the vile from committing the
most heinous and aggravated crimes. Last sum
mer two men, who had been proving around
Germantown, in this State, abducted Charley
Ross from the nome of his parents, and although
diligent search has been made all over the coun-
try, as we'll as in Canada, he has not been found
as vet, and his abductors were able 10 elude the
vigilance of the most efficient detectives. 1t ap-
pears, however, that the vile miscreants have at
last been caught, though both are dead. Two
desperate burglars named Joseph Douglas and
William Mosher were shot at Bay Ridge, Long
Island, last Monday morning. The latter was
killed instantly, but the former survived for q
short time after he was shot. When he was in
the agonies of death a woman said to him sit
serves you right. It's just good for you" This
remark seemed to affect him greatly, and exclaim-
ed. "0h madam, I've been n very wicked
fellow" He then confessed that he was in the
buggy with Mosher when Charlie Ross was taken
from the home of his parents, and that Inspector
Walling knew all about it. Yesterday morning
a dispatch from New York announced that Walter
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witnesses were sure that one of them was an oc-
cupant of the buggy when the child was abducted.
IL, then, there is ne mistake about the matter,
these wicked malefactors have met the doom they
deserved, and a just retribution has oyertaken
them for the poignant grief and unutterable an
guish they have caused to the parents and friends
Of the missing boy. The man who punished
them was ignorant Of their names and their crimes,
only in so far as they had attempted to rob the
house Of his brother Judge Van Brunt, of the
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not think there is a man or n woman in the coun-
try sufficiently soft-hearted to weep over their
fate. If there is any punishment more intolera-
bic than another, or any damnation deeper than
another, those men, who narrowed and lacerated
a fathers and a mothers heart, by kidnapping
their bright and beautiful boy, deserved to have
it inflicted. But whether they were the abduc-
tors of the Germantown child or not, judging
from the accounts given of thom in police circles
in New York, merited and condign punishment
has been melted out TO them, and no one will
mourn over their miserable fate. Verify, the
way of transgressors is hard.-Pins5urg Dispatch.