The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1888-06-07
Announcements.
l. There Lew Against Murder On
Miss;s ippi.
From Meridian Democrat

The account we publish today Of
the Womack killing in Warren
county is another witness Of how
cheap aud uncertain a thing is hu,
man life in N ss.ssippi. We pas,
no Judgment upon the justifable-
ness Of Mr.. Bu'lock's conduct in
killing DR.. Womack, but we say
that in a state where there prevail.
ed the proper reverence for that
sacred, awful, God-giveu hing we
call human lite, this murd cred
mans heart blood would never
have wound in piteous scarlet over
that saloons sanded floor. In Mis-
sssippi if a railroad train kills q
COW, a horse or other stock, a jury
is impannelled and the corpora
ton made to pay damages. If a
negro or unfortunate white man
breaks in and steals, tho grand jury
indicts and verdict at last is rem.
derod and the man is sent of to
the hideous convict camps, there
under the lash to toll in sad expri-
alton Of his crime. TIA man bor-
rows money, even the court, to its
fullest power, attempts to make
him pay it back. But if a man
murders a fellow human being.
made in the image and likeness of
God, if he takes away the life that
God gave and all the powers of
the universe are powerless to give
back-if he Stays him who was the
sunlight of some innocent woman's
life and the winner of bread for
)hsiliaiafs eblldren-ifin the revenge
lleged wrong the murderer
home to these bereaved be-
lump Of cold listless clay,
d-stained and silent, instead Of
father, whose caressing hands,
he darling days now forever
d, used to send the blood in
silling currents to the joyously
ea&ing heart and whose happy
Coming made the darkened twi-
light time the brightest, SUNSHINE
psf hour Of all the day-if a man
oes this hideous reeoiling thing,
pig all mercy under feet,
g the highest, hottest feel
the human heart and insult
y - mands ofGod, tits too
he case hat he is call
touru bnt for the pur-
'oIhav .ag tie Jury pronounce
guiltli.eas ard heir verdict
Istsnd between him and public
obloquy or private vengeree. 1t
is tauot flung out against ancient
ages that a man expiated a murder
by fine, but ours is the deeper,
larker shame that a man expirates
crime by 2 lawyers fee. A life,
m4n's lifefs a costly precious
Ning. Besides of all of love it
M : to the mother who bore
b. watched and wept and pray
ed OVER his baby slumbers, who
taught him truth, religion and love
and who at last did send him to
the world a high-souled, noble man
beside all il means of passionate
Joy and paradise to her to whom
iulife's bright morn be came as a
messenger from heaven telling how
much Of JOY the human heart could
hold, and how dear the world must
be to God, because he had made it
a scene Of such solemn rapture
beside all it means OF love to these,
o mans life represents to the State
tho expenditure Of much money,
much toll, much property, upon an
Investment that is just now begin
ming TO pay. A State is as much
interested financially in an adult
wealth producing citizen as farm
err s in his crops glittering with
the ripened harvest. It is a greateI
calamity for the State to have a
citizen killed than to have proper
ty stolen. Property stolen is moi