Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-04-04


The committee OF the Society Of Friends
in the State Of Maine, on the abolition OF
the death penalty have issued what they
call an Official document in which they say
"Having, by every effort at their command,
striven while hope lasted. for justice to the
unfortunate John p. Phair. now in the
State prison at Windsor. VT, as the 4th Of
April approaches, the day upon which
Vermont IL to be covered with blot OF
iniamy never to be erased from the page Of
her history, desire to place on record their
firm and unalterable belief that the prs
oner has been denied, by the Supreme
Court Of Vermont. the far. Just hearing
which thousands demanded ere human lie
should be made a plaything. The theory
emanatlng from seine OF our leading
journals IN New England, that the uniOrtu-
nate man Is the victim Of base conspiracy,
seems more than probable to Us, after a
careful and prolonged investigation Of the
case. The fact that one hundred times as
much money has been spent to secure his
conviction as was allotted for his defence,
must kindle hame Of righteous Indignation
in every humane and patriotic heart, and
engender the feeling that tae thirst Tor
blood IN Vermont il not confined alone to
the Rutland journal, 50 ably criticised in
the G!Obe. In conclusion We would say
that in our judgment John L. Phair on the
scaffOld on April 1. 1873, i infinitely more
to be enyied than the Supreme Court of
Vermont, Tor John =. Phair leaves the
world with ten thousand impartial and un-
prejudced hearts, satisfied that his guilt
has never been satisfactorily established.
John p. Phair was found guilty of muir
der in the first degree by d jury Of twelve
unprejudIced men. His exceptions were
oye;ruled by the Supreme Court. His
counsel took the case to the Legislature and
special law was enacted for his benefit
Under this law there was final hearin. IN
his case at Rutland, February 7th The
Judges Of the Supreme Court, holding in
their hand+ the issues Of lie ard death, ard
having full sense of the awful respOnsi-
biiiy resting upon them. gave full hear
ing. waving the judicial rules of evidence
and listening to the whole mass Of testimony,
relevant and Irrelevant. which the ingenuity
Of able counsel could summon Their decis-
ion WAS adverse to Phair Slch is brief
statement Of the loading facts On one side,
then. are iudge7-of long experience, accus-
toned to weighing testimony. skilled in the
law, humane. unbiased and upright. On
the other side are lot of Quaker sentiment
alists and malO1OrOds gang of Bohem
lans. And we confess it IL not without
Indignation that VIC see our courts, our
Legislature. our Governor and our people
abused snd insulted by tho humbugs and
blstherskites who have championei Phair's
cause. We may add that as l)ng a. Maine
has more murders in six months than Yer
mont has had in ten years. tho Maine
murderer champions would do well to con
fine their efforts to their own State
NoRTH FERRIsBtRIH. - The missionary
collection at the NJ f. church. one week
ago last sabbath. amounted to nearly
800.
Anti-Fst Chemically E,nmined-
The anal ticlI chemist. ". h. DRAKE, Of Buffalo,
N y, recently analyl Allan's Anti Fat. AMI
gave the following
CERut ICiTL.
have subjected Adams Anti Fat to chemical an
alysis, examined the process Of IT, manufacture,
aud can truly -uy that the ingredients which il
is composed are entirely vegetable and cannot
but act iuyorably upon the system and 1t Is well
calculated to attain the object FOR which il is in
tended.
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