The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-02-09

he looked at me with smiling security |
Our weapons were hid under our acade- |
mic rObs; and even when we drew them
out, and at the moment of applying
them to the throat, they still supposed
our gestures to be part or the pantOmlne
we were performing. Did | relish this
abuse of personal confidence in myseltS
NO-I lOathed it, and grieved for It's
necessity; but my mother, phantom
not seen with bodily eyes but ever present
to my mind, continually assembled before
me; and still | shouted aloud to my
astOunded victim, This comes from the
| JeWessi Hound of. hOundsl DO you re-
member the Jewess whom you dis
| hOnOred, and the Oaths which you broke
in order that you might dishOnor her,
and the righteous law which you ylO-
lated, and the cry of anguish from her
| son, which you scOffed atY Whom l
was. what avenged, and whom, made
| every man aware, and every woman,
| before | punished them. The details of
| the cases need not repeat, One or two l
was obliged, at the beginning, to COM
NIT to my Jews. The suspicion was
| thus, from the first, turned aside by the
nOtOriety of my presence elsew here; but
| took care that none suffered who had
not either been upon the guilty llst OF
| magistrates who condemned the mother,
~ "
| cry from the supplicatiOn of the son.
'It pleased God, however, to place
mighty tempta: ion in my path, which
might have persuaded me to tOregO all
| thoughts of vengeance, to forget my
VOW, to forget the voices which invoked
me from the grave. This was Margaret
Liebenheim. All! how terrific appeared
my duty OF bloody retrlbutlon, after ner
| angel's face and Angels voice had calmed
me. With respect to her grandfather,
| strange it is to mention, that never did
my innocent wife appear so lovely as
precisely in the relation of grand
| daughter. So beautiful was her good
ness to the old man, and so divine was
| the child-like innocence on her part,
! cOntrasted with the guilty recOllectiOns
| associated with him-fOr he was amongst
| the guiltiest towards my mOther-still |
| delayed his punishment to the last and,
| for his childs sake, | would have par
dOned him-nay, | had resolved to do so,
when a fierce Jew, who had deep ma
! lightly towards this man, swOre that he
would accomplish his vengeance at all
| events, and perhaps might be obliged to
include Margaret in the ruin, unless |
| adhered to the original scheme, Then
yielded; for circumstances armed this
man with mOmentary power. But the
night fixed on was one in which | had
reas on to know that my wife would be
| absent; for 50 / had myself arranged
with her, and the unhappy counter
| arrangement do not yet understand.
| Let me add, that the sole purpose of my
| clandestine marriage was TO sting her
gTandfather's mind with the belief that
| his family had been hOnOred, even as he
| had dishOnOTed mine. He learned, as L
| took care that he should, that his grand
| daughter carried about with her the
promises as a mother, and did not know
| that she had the sanction of a wife,
| This discovery made him, in one day,
become eager for the marriage he had
| previously opposed; and this discovery
also embittered the misery of his death.
| At that moment / attempted to thilk
0nly of my mothers wrongs; but in
| spite of all could do, this old man ap-
| peared to me in the light Of Margaret's
grandfather; and had been left 10 my
self, he would have been saved. As it
| was, never was horror equal to mine
| when | met her 6ying to his suec9ur. L
had relied upon her absence; and the
misery of that moment, when her eye
fell upon me in the very act of seiZing
her grandfather, far tTansce9ded all
else that / have suffered in these terrific
scenes She tainted in my arms, and
and another carried her up stairs and
procured water; meantime her grand
father had bean murdered even whilst
| margaret ld1AJtu. L Adus lOFFftN tl uuutl
the fear of discovery, though never an
ticipating a TencOntTe with herself,
fOTestalled the explanation requisite in
| such case, 20 make my conduct intelli-
| gible. l had told her, under feigned
names, the story of my mother and my
sisters. She knew their wrongs; she
| had heard me contend for the right of
! vengeance. Consequently in our part
] ing interview, one word only was re-
! quired to Place myself in a new posi-
'tiOn in her thoughts. l needed only to
| say was that son; that mother was
mine.
| "As to Sne jailOT, he was met by q
| party of us. Not suspecting that any of
! us could be connected with the family,
! he was led to talk of the most hideOus
! details with regard to my poor BeTenice-
1 The child had not, as had been insinu
ated, aided her own degradation, but had
nObly sustained the dignity of her sex
and her Eamily. Such advantages the
| monster pretended to have gained over
| her-sick, desOlate, and latterly deliriOus
were, by his own confession, not OBJ
! tanned without violence. This was toe
4 much. Forty thousand lives, had he
| possessed them, could not have gratifed
my thirst for revenge. Yet, had he but
/ showed courage, he should have died the
| death OF a soldier. But the wretch
| showed cOwardice the most abject, and
- but you know his fate.
| Now, then, all is finished, and human
| nature is avenged. Yet if you cOmplaiD
| of the bEOOdshed and the terror, think of
the wrengs which created my rights;
think of the sacrifice by which gave a
tenfOld strength to those rights; think
| of the necessity for a dreadful cOncus-
sion, and shock to society, in order to
| carry my lesson into the councils of
princes.
"This will now have been effected
And ye, victims of disbOnOr, will be
glOrifed in your deaths5 ye will mott
have suffered in vain, nor died without
a monument. Sleep, Therefore, sister
ee,-sleep, gentle Marianne, in
peace. Hand thou, nGble mother,
| let the 0ntrages, sOwn in thy dishOnor,
\ rise again and blossom in wide harvests
| of honor for the women of thy afflicted
race. Sleep, daughters of Jerusalem, in
the sanetity of your suferings. And
thou, if it be possible, even more beloved
! daughter of Christian fold, whose
! company was too soon denied to him in
life, open thy grave to receive him, who,