The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-05-16
HANGING BRADY.

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be forthcoming in due time. The world
will know how the condemned man died.
Before execution the condemned man may
have made 3 confession, or he may have
gone to his death protesting his innocence.
We know he was condemned upon the tes-
timony of q self-cOnfessed murderer, per-
iured villain, a miscresnt as hideous and
vile as a dungeon toad or any other reptile
that ever aroused the unspeakable loathing
of men. The death penalty for murder is 9
righteous penalty; but all hoUlicides are
not murder. The law says so. The
statutes make distinction. But
there s:e cases in which there
are no legal bubbles, clean cut cases Of muir.
der, where one man kills another for real
or supposed injury. The case being tried in
Kentucky Is in point. The law, IN all its
majesty, is against Thompson; but there is
about as much reason for believing that
Thompson will be convicted as there is that
Davis will be raised from the dead, throw
of his bloody winding-sheet and walk the
streets at Harrodsburg. Why is this? Be
cause behind the statute and above the
statute there is another lava higher Law
a Jaw that sweeps away statutes and pro-
claims that in some cases what the statutes
declare to be murder is not murder-killing
to be sure, but right, never
theless, and the virdict is that
the slayer shall 60 free.
Such incidents are offrequent occurrence in
private life, but the moment that the great
public is introduced, when great public
wrongs arouse whole communities TO ven
geance-stAtutes disappear. Rebellion oper-
= es under laws in oil regards unlike statutes.
The question is now up for discussion in
diplomatic circles. Is Ireland in rebellion
against English rule? The United States
the British Government. The reply will be
interesting. The world looks on, as EDglsnds
cruel hand and heel crush out Irish liber-
ties nd declares that Ireland is in rebellion
If SO, the crimes that are charged agains.
Irishmen are political crimes, and as such
will pass into history. True, England will
imprison and hang Irishmen without re-
gard to what others may say ABOUT the Of
lenses for which they suffer, but, outside of
England, the world will decide that En-
81 and is furnishing Irishmen for political
trensgressions. Brady, guilty or innocent,
was hung yesterday, and the execution
brings to the front the bloody deed enacted
in Phgnix Park. 1t is given such promi-
nence that for the time being Englands
record of despotism in Ireland is forgotten,
and there Is a disposition to show that
Irishmen are, by nature and education,
monsters, and entitled to no consideration, but
rather. to such penalties as English
vengence may inhict. The Phoenix Park
assassinations were to the last degree de-
plorable. Considered separate and apart
from Englsnds internal policy in Ireland
the strociousness of the Ph@nix Park
murders can not be exaggerated, but when
centuries of English devilishness in Ireland
is taken into the account, the wonder is that
such instances of Irish vengeance have not
been multiplied an hundred fold. Why
did England set prlos on the heads of such
illustrious patriots as John Hancock, John
Adams and George Washington in the days
of the American Rebellion? Simply be-
cause she wanted the blood OF representative
men. It will be interesting
to know how Brady died. Here
in the United States, John Brown some
years ago, was tried, condemned and execu-
ted for murder There was then, and there
are now. multiplied thousands who believed
his crime was of political character, and
that to hang him was an outrage. John
Brown killed innocent men who had nevel
harmed him in word or act. His memory
ia revered. and monuments are built to per
petUaJe his name. Whatever may be SAID
of John Browns crime, he died grandly
He rode along the highways OF Virginia tC
the place of execution sitting on his cofiir
as il it were a holiday excursion. He talked
of soils aud crops and other commonplace
topics. He mounted the scaffold with I
firm and steady step and met death like
brave man. He thought, possibly, that
whether on the scaff0ld high
| Or In the battles van,
| The dttest place where man can die
| Is where he dies for man."
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