The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-11-11
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upon our own resources ill combi-
lnetion with others towns being una: ::
vailing, from their great distance,
Our situationo vas np7 e1linary one.
Had there beeh isoanea yyste4iouSs lob
bers amongst US, the chances of q Wis
j itsdiyided b i, i.l ameng4ta g g g aesoamAy, would
have been too small to distress the
most Vtimid:; thilst, to young and
high-spirited people, with courage It's:
spare ffof o1disaly hials, aaoh d: state'
of expectation would have sent pulses
Of fpleasnrable anxiety amongst the
nerves. But murderers! e1termin.-
ating, ,murderers! clothed in mystery
and utter darkness,-these were OBJ
jects too terrific for any nysamilytoeon-
template with fortitude. Had these
very ,nnurderers added to their fuuo-
tions those of robbery, they would
have become less terrific nine out
Of every ten would have found them
selves discharged, as it were, from the
roll ofthose who were liable to a Wis
it; while such as knew themselves
liable would have hadA warning of
their danger in the fact of being rich !:
and would, from the very riches which
constituted that danger, have derived
the means Of repelling it. But, as
things we're, 70 man could guess what
it: was that ;pp.t make him obnoxious
to the murderers. Imagination q z
ha Uted itself in vain gnessses at the
causes which could by possibility
have made. the poor Weishaupts OBJ
jects of such hatred to any man.
True, they were bigoted in q degree
which indicated feebleness of INTEL
lect; but that wounded no man in
particular, whilst to many it recon-
mended them. True, their charity
was narrow and exclusive, but to
those of their own religious body it
expanded munifcently; and being
rich beyond their wants, or any means
of employing wealth which their
gloomy asceticism allowed, they had
the power of doing great deal; Of
good amongst the INDECENT papists Of
the'suburbs. AS to the old gentle
man and his wife; their 'infrmities
confined them to, the house. Nobody
remembered to have seen them abroad
for years. How, therefore, or Or when
could they have made an enemy ?
And, with respect to the maiden sis;
ters Of Mr.. 'Weishaupt, they wei re
simply weak.mlnded persons, now
and then too ce1isorious, but not,
placed in a situation to incur serious
anger from any quarter, and stoo; lit
tie heard of in society'to occupy much
Of annybody's attention.. ~ -
1 Conceive, then, that three weeks
have: passed sa; away, that the poor
Weishaupts have been laid in that
narrow sanctuary: which no murder.
er's voice will ever violate. 3. Quiet
has not returned to us, but the :fr4t
autterings Of. panic have subsided.
People are Il nm beginning Is ) rretslp'iire freely
again; and such another space Of
timewould have cicatrized our wounds,
when, hark Ia church,bell rings, nut
aloud alarm the night is starlight
and frosty, the iron notes are heard,
clear, solemn, but agitated. What
,could this mean? I hurried to a
room over the oporter's lodge, and,
opening the window, I cried out to a
man passing hastily, below, "What,
in Gods name, is the meaning Of
this? ?" It was aswatchman belonging
to our district I Knew his voice, he
knew mine, and he replied in great
agitation,-
f. ut is another murder, sir, at the
old town councillors, Albernass and
this time they have made clear
house of it" .. !
T.: "God preserve us! Has curse
been pronounced upon this city
What can be done? What are the
magistrates going TO do?" i, - I'd :
Il Il don't know, SIR I have, orderl
to run to the Black Friars, where
another meeting is gathering. Shall
I say you will attend, sir7'
"Yes-no-stop a little. No mat
ter, you may go on; I'll follow i'm
mediately:"
I went instantly to Maximllian''
room. He was lying asleep on a so
ia, at which l was not surprised, fol
there had been a severe stag'chase il
the morning. Even at this momen
l found myself arrested by two oh
4 1jects, and I paused to survey them
One was Maximilian himself. A per
son SO mysterious took precedency q