The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-02-02
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The end NJ the Oulloau trial has NJ last
about been fonohol ny the verdict N We
Jury last evening nm account Of Which VIII .
he found In our Washington dispatches.
Whatever may be said Of the length Of the
trial and the failure Of duty on the part OF
some Of Us principal actors, no complaint
we apprchond will be made against the
twelve who have become the avengers OF
Garfield and by their action rcassurod tic
American people that there are still those
I'm our midst who know their duty and dare
perform Attempts have been made upon
the poor wrctch's life and the press even
has been clamorous for the shedding of his
blood by violent hands, yet the intelligence
of the land cannot but feel gratilicd that
the law has been permitted to take its
course, and has by this swift and merlted
verdict been vndicated. 1t is not ont OF
sentimentalism over the dead Presidents
death or the prejudice naturally and UNI
versally felt against his slayer that we APP
plaud the determination reached yesterday.
1t is simply upon cold, rational perception
of the fact that d more causeless, diabolical
or heartess murder or one committed
under more cowardly circumstances has not
been witnessed in the United States for
years. The brazen impudence displayed by
the prisoner during the investigation OF MS
case, while disgusting to the public has
vet operated as a light under which his in
teIlectual condition could be viewed, and
no doubt had much to do in aiding the
Jury in making up their verdict as to his
sanity or insanity. Judge Cox's wisdom
in allowing the greatest latitude to Doth
the criminal and his attorneys Will now
probably become appreciable, as thereby
no possible ground for a new trial OF
reversal has been left, and the finding
of the Jury is virtually the death warrant Of
this low and cruel assassin. That he was
intelligent and sane enough to recognize
the moral obliquity of his act, there can DC
no well-founded doubt, and the idea OF Do
ing impelled to its COMMISSION by an ire
sistible impulse, is absurd. All the crimes
in the category could be excused upon INC
same hypothesis, for it is dou bttul If any
criminal would "kill, burn and destroy
from a simple love of crime, or it not actu
; ated by seemingly "rresistlDl'
impulse" No tears will be shed FOL
the assassin, whose days are mum
bered and who will be called upon shortly
to don the black cap and the halter thai
, Justly wait upon him who forgets his Coli
cations to society. And yet we cannot bu
sympathize with Scoville and his wife. IL
the dark chapter which it has taken IL
| eight months almost to read a few brlgh
; tints have been visible and each shines will
lustre reasuring to our belief III the ex
/, cellence generally of the human character
= These were the courage and big mindednes
: of the victim, the devotion of his wife ant
last but not least the heroic and atfec
tionate labors OF the brother-in-law and
sister of the friendless and reprobate prison
err. in his behalf. But the curtain has virtu
ally been dropped. There remains only
the short scene that has no attractive
features in 1.-THE execution OF the law:
sentence and in common with the publi'
generally we .heave sigh of relief at thu
beginning of an end to sensation that ha
been more productive of startling denoue
i ments than pleasant Surroundings.
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