Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-05-09
e You vince again. All this. YOU see,

"YOu vince again. All this, you see,
was your own work. | have your stub
born soul, as hard as granite itself; and
behold what It becomes when left wild
and unchiseled | grew UP an outcast,
a very Ishmael; there was no one to care
for me, and cared for none. The world
would not suffer me to be honest, even il
[ would; for. once, remembering my
mother, | strove for awhile to live IS [
thought she would have wished. / found
a store where they took me as Grand
boy; but soon after some money was
missed from the till; I was suspected,
-andgit being found that I had once been
in the House of Correction my guilt was
considered clear They kicked me out
of the shop, and when began to protest
my innocence, threatened to send for d
constable. That, too, was your work. Do
you think, if [ had been acknowledged as
your son, that [ should have been con-
sidered a thiefiby nature? on Jle. =.
,. g But why go on? There are thous-
ands like me, growing up in the same
way, in this city; and thousands more in
every other great city in the land Yet
you philanthropists- ah do touch you
again link there is no call for human
kindness in our direction, nay. regard it
no sin to deserty your own acknowledged
offspring. Well, we are even with YOU,
after all. Society and you make Ish-
maelites FOR us, and we repay you both
BY eternal war. We. sell pestiferous
books to your own children; we teach
them to swear IN the streets; we ditfuse
everywhere the poison of our sin and our
hate; we violate your laws, and laugh at
your moral terrors. laYa.#sa All III s9.is
= Z" They call youya great man, "a fear
less reformer, and, | believe, something
also of saint. You feel like saint now,
don't you! Behold your, work! You
yourself are my murderer; sharing my
sin, you sign my death-warrant and re-
fuse a pardon, nay! even an interview,
because it is against your principles
Oh! blessed Pharisee Broad is your
phylactery, and long are your prayers in
the market place; you spoil widows and
orphans, even your own child; surely
great shall be your reward in Heaven.
-e,'HS You see that know something Of
your Scriptures. Since1L have been here,
when no, one was bys L have read much
of them Had | studied them under
that eye of love, ! might perhaps have
been a different man But, believe me,
they are not what you, and those like
you think. Christ didanot turn from the
Magdalene. Christ never blessed the
fatherwho abandoned his child [ know
now why my mother called herself Ha-
gar, and me Ishmael, for in them were
typitied to all time outcasts, like our
selyes.1Ha ~. % tH#l'"i on 5'A .1'. % '''..
:: | say that, had studied the gospel
sooner, Knight havebeen different. But
is too late now.ao The world treated
me, from my very cradle not as Christ
taught; and the sin of my iniquities, at
least in part, is the worlds. Yet now,
you Christians, after making me what |
am, murder me with legal forms; for,
before heaven and eternity, / declare
that am innocent of the intent to kill.
/ struck the blow in self-defense But
was an outcast, and my word went for
nothing; besides, an example, was need
ed, as the Judge said, to stop the torrent
of vice rolling over the land; and in con-
sequence, the crowd tomorrow will be
filled with goodly edifcation, suppose,
to see d ellow-creature choked under
the gallows." e1H3iH 5.d hS'" f.i"at
The manuscript closed abruptly. at
this point. The Governor, who had read
it literally with hair on end, sank back
with q groan into. his chair; the letter
falling from his relaxed hand to the
floor.
''The Lord God Omnipotent reigneth,"
he murmured in voice broken like an
old man sga And with half connected
sentences, Nhe9 went on at Intervals
?" Vengeance is mine, | willsrepay-the
bruised reed and smoking flax into.
outer darkness, where shall be. wailing
and gnashing of teeth
Il His head dropped forward on his
breast, and his words sank into indistinct
mutterings. He wasdeadaIoi 1aa To&