Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-06-05
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GUILDHALL, VT, June 8, 1878.
This is lamentably an era of crime
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GUILDHALL, VT, June ., 1879.
This is lamentably an era Of crime.
Although the forces Of good and
truth are great and strong, yet the
glorious millennial days-when peace
and good will to men and among men,
when the earth shall bud and blossom
with love, when men shall hurt not,
modest not, nor make each other afraid
have not yet arrived. The most
shocking crimes are committed, that
makes the life blood chill and Stage
in its health-giving flow, that make us
astonished at the awful cruelty and
wickedness that is bound up in the
hearts Of men, if they hare hearts, or
properly, belong to human kind.
These crimes often break out very
mysterously, not coming alone from
the vile and degraded, but often from
those that have the sGmblance OF
goodness and the title of respectable
ity, from those who are not apparent
ly tempted above others and from
those who occupy positions Of honor
and trust. The leaven of crime is
abroad in the land, working with
fever;sh energy and power in all de-
paltments of state and society, throw
ing off its spews or germs of disease,
like some wasting epidemic that
brings contagion and death to all kin
dred hearts whose passions and pro.
pensities are burning with white heat
till the devil gains full possession, and
the mind, the will, and the heart is
overthrown till there is no man left,
and the machine does the bidding oil
darkness and hell. ....
Among the more prominent of these
tragedies that have been committed
recently, at which the whole colnmun.
atty stood aghast, might be named thai
of Mrs. Emerson, at Piermont; the
case of strangling or choking fol-
which Pemberton is indicted the
poisoning case at Lebanon and last
ly the murder of an innocent little
girl in the belfry Of church dedicated
to the worship Of God. These are
but the opponents Or developments o.
that suh-strats Of crime that is hidden
under the garb Of frieRdliness, and to
which the whole community ALE al.
ways ignorantiy exposed. 1t is well
therefore for aa enlightened public
sentiment to investigate the causes OF
crime that they may work understand
ingly to effect cure, The effect of
the late war has lessened the value Of
human life. War educates the
coarser, the hardest of mans nature
and feelings instead Of the finer. The
great nervous strain and tension OF
society in its very unnatural modes OF
dress, eating, drinking, sleeping, with
the excitement that wealth commands
is another great cause of crime. But
the greater cause OF crime can be
stated in q few words: CrinsincRs
are ROT pSEjShed. Courts are. but a
farce and mock at justice. Eloqunce,
'friends and money are tile powers
; that effect SO many misearriages OF
Justice. Justice has BEEN overbal!
aneed by mcaey. Justice bleeds,
truth and principal are dead, and the
= community suffers. Governors should
toe shaved clean Of the pardoning
tpower. A few soft-beartsdj petition
AIRY -seiSimentalists are always at
work TO set these incarnsle devils q;
liberty, ana if they are so-unfortunate
as to get -soNS up for $hart term, OF
for life even, how few have the bens
tit of the full term. Mo wonder that
the people are taking these lorimina ais
into their own henlAs,. especially
West, and justice is nmtevlosst speed.
lily. Christian ladies atuCSmdfhers- are
already pctiticning the Governor anc
Council to hang the lPomevoy bow
They are afraid that 'tee wiiilbe agair
turned loose, and thi sis tsAeiirst petit
ton that we have SCI 10 ttRatiD, in thu
right direction,
10 be sure crimii dis have rights
Out when convicted ] e6 them have tin
full force of the law, aand SC this hat
been speedily done I'M tthe Dast thes
moral and lawful Diet, rre,lforces wsul
have saved, in G rsat degree, th
crimes Of the pres stt, We woul
rather see the laws G zeyatod by drum
head justice than the cecntinuation {
the present dilly-dall Etng syst EN- nov
in force.
The chain OF circum s4sntial evidence
steadily Tightening alb ontPiper, the SUI,