Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1875-05-11
NUMBER II.
For the OXFORD DEnOcaAr
".In Eye for an Eye dHd d Tooth
for IL TOOfh.'
BY W. p. sHirTCcK. NJ. d.

OF I'D. c." in the last DEMoCEAr. Is he
follower oil "lhe meek and !owly
Jesus" who wept bitter Tears not Tor "the
yirtuous and innocent, but for the vicious
and guilty. "Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem.
thou tha, kilest the prophets and stonest
them. How many times would have
gathered you &c. With him.the eye Tor
an eye and tooth for u tooth was relic
of the dark ages" Did Christ, the in.
carnate Son OF God advocate legal
murders In fact, I'D g >" is not your
idea of Justice, truth, and mercy, q relic
OF the dark ages? You would strangIe
to death poor. erring mortal, who had
committed high crime against society,
victim of circumstances and surround.
ings, and who you claim is not lit to live.
But Is he tit to die? You will say give
him chance to repent first, aud then
iswing him of And will he be "lit and
seasoned for the passage alter burning
out the candle OF life in the service oi the
devil, and then blowing the snuff IN the
Almighty's face? Better adyoc Ite the
closing of the dram shop, and elevaIing
and ameliorating the condition OF society
by higher tone ol religion, education
morals aud surroundings. Is ii possible
to win man to the precepts OF "the
blessed Gospel OF the Son Of God" by
violence and blood? 50 thought those
who caused thousands 10 die on St. Bar
,hoIomew's Day in Paris in lj72. "For
ChrisL's sake" was their apology. So
with those who slaughtered in thirty
years one hundred thousand llugaenOts.
and so thinks ID. C."
believe that by and through Christ.
his precepis. beautiful deeds, and an
equa! spirituality, will men escape the
evils OF social disunity, aud be elevated
into communion with higher and holier
truths, Love was the cure lie taught for
all the socill and moral evils oil the
human family. Far better than the eye
for an eye and tooth for tooth. He
that Is without sin among you cast the
first stone" would ask "D. G - is not
Christianity. as Christ taught superior to
Judaism Judaism was = temporary
Taking into consideration
the teachings and plecepts taught, TO my
mind, that lone Star OF Bethlehem. as an
exemplificalion OF God, has more
efiulgence than the Judean Sun. who
said, whose sheddeth mans blood by
man shall his blood be she'd
George w. Pemberton, referred to by
I'D. g." as the murderer OF Mrs. Mary
Bingham in East Boston the last OF
March, has unquestionable vices. and
among them an inordinate love for strong
dlink; this love VAS without doubt the
sole cause OF the murder. For several
days he had been on drunk, and had
expended all his means to crafty this
appetite. He feels that he must have the
means Tor getting more liquid damnation.
aud In a delirium of drunken frenzy
searches for the means. Theft was un.
his object when he entered
the houses oil that fatal afternoon. See
ing the rings on the hands Of Mrs. b. he
seizes her, in his delirium. throws her
down, and TO stihe her efforts to give an
alarm fills her mouth with gravel-the
most available agent near-wlIh no IN
OF taking her lie, but supposing
he could get away with bis booty before
she could clear her mouth and throat aud
give the cry OF stop thief. Her struggles
and efforts 10 scream carried the pebbles
and piece oil coal TO the glottis, and
about the time he supposed she had
cleared her mouth, and was giving the
alarm, she was suffering her last agony.
Rum did IT," backed by badly organ.
lied mentality. "On, thou damned
spirit OF wine, ii had no name by which
to know thee would call thee devil.
God bless the Auburn Club and other
like associations Tor good. have more
confidence and reliance 10 their success
for good. and their general efforts TO eIe.
yate and save than Tor all the cant and
eroans OF those who advocate ian eye
ior an eye and tooth for q tooth.
The question has been often asked oil
late wears the cause of so much crime IN
the form OF child murderers. 1t is easily
answered on the hypothesis OF anti'nalal
Impressions. Efforts 10 procure abortion
without succeeding, tells the story. Muir.
der in the heart OF the mother Tor weeks,
perhaps months, making its impress up
on the offspring. Drunkards from birth
we acknow ledge exist, ard murderers
from birth society will be forced TO admit
exist also. Search into the anti natal
history Of the PomroY boy. and 1t will be
found that bis is An unwelcome birth, and
bis mother, il she reports honesty, must
admit herselfto be the cause OF his men.
tai idiosyncracy. The story that the
husband was 4 butcher at the lime OF her
pregnancy is not true. Al that time he
work ed in the navy yard at Charlesto wn.
Mrs. Green. the mother OF Green who
killed the cashier OF the Medford Bank i
few years ago, acknowledged in bitter
ness and crime, having while carrying
him carried murder in her heart towalds
him as an unwelcome child tor months.
and for weeks tried 10 execute her wishes
to destroy The fGtns without success.
Verify the sins OF the parents or visited
upon the children"
Poor old John Hale, the veteran horse
thief, who has passed over fifty years OF
his life IN State penitentiaries lor having
horse on the brain all his life, is klep-
tomania in given direction, never hav-
anvsh hin0 kpt