The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-08-02
although ho is almost all tho tiiiie idle
now and has resipned his position in


now and has resigned his position in
tao Il, bank ooT7 tho sss.ery o. tho store.
he has moro money than he ever had,
trades off his old silver watch for gold
ono with flashing chain, sets his hat
q littlo farther over on tho sido Of his
hoad than ho ovor did, smokes bottor
cigars and moro Of thom. He has his
hand inl Now,-if ho can escape tho
penitontiary for three or four yoars no
will got into political circlos, and ho
will got political jobs and will have
something to do with ha, bors and pave.
monts and docks Now bio has got so
far along ho is safe for pordition.
1t is quite a long road sometimes for
q man to travel before he gets into tho
romance Of orimo. Those arc caught
who aro only in tho prosaic stage Of it.
If tho shoriff and constables would only
leave them alono little while, they
would steal as well as anybody. They
might not be ablo to steal whole rail.
road, but thoy could mastor load Of
pig iron.
Now, always thank God whom I
find an estate like that 60 to smash. It
is plague struok, and it blasts tho ma
tion. | thank God whom it COOS into
such wreck it oan mover be gathered
up again. | want it to booomo 30
loathsomJ and suoh an insufferablo
stonch that honest young mon will tako
warning. II God should put into
money or it's represent ativo tho oapaoi-
ty to 60 to its lawful ownor, there would
not be bank or safety deposit in tho
United Statos whose walls would not
bo blown out and mortgages would rip
and parobmonts would rond and GOLD
would shoot and beggars would got on
horseback aud atook gamblers would.
60 to tho almshouso.
30 thoro has boon great deal Of fas
oination thrown around libertinism.
Society is very sovore upon tho impuri-
ty that turks around tho alleys and low
haunts Of tho town. The law pureuos
it, smites it, inoarcorhtos it, tries to do.
Htroy it. You know as well as I that
society booomos leniont in proportion
as impurity booomos atlllcnt or is in
olovat:d orioles, and fioslly society is
silont or disposed TO palliato. Whoro
is tho judge, tho jury, tho police officer
that dare arraign Tho Wealthy iibortinef
He walks tho stroets, he ridcs the
parks, he Aaunts his iniquity in the
eyos Of the pure. Tho hag Of unlean-
ness looks out OF the tapestried window.
Where is tho law that daros take tho
brazen wrotchos and put their faoos in
an iron Franc Of state prison window?
Sometimes it soems to mo as if sooo-
ty were going back to tho state Of
morals of Herculanoam, whom it soulp-
tured it's viloness on pillars and tonple
wall and nothing but the lava Of q
burning mountain could hide the i'm
mensity of crime. At what timo Col
will rise up and oxtirpato thofe evils
upon society ] know not, nor whether
he will do it by fire or hurricane or
easthquake; but q holy God T do not
think will stand it much longor. bo-
lievo tho thuadorbolts are kissing hot
and shat when Ged cemca to cheatiao
the community for these Sins, against
which he has uttered himself moro bit.
terly than against any othor, the fate
of Sodom and Gomorrah will be toler-
ablo as compared with the fate Of our
modern society, which knew better, but
did worse.
We want about 10000 pulpits in
America to thunder, 'All adultorers
and whoremongers shall have their
placo in tho hell that burneth with fire
and brimstone, which is tho second
death" It is holl on earth aud hell
forever. We have got to understand
that iniquity on Columbia hoights OF
Fifth avenue or Beacon hill is as damn
|, able in the sight Of. God as it is in tho
slums. Whether it has oanopied couch
OF cider down or dwells amid tho put
ridity Of low tenoment house. God ia
aftor it in his vengeance. Yet tho
pulpit OF the Christian church has been
SO cowed down on this subject that it
hardly daros speak, and mon are al.
most spologetio whom they read the
Ten Commandments.
Then look at tho fasoinations thrown
around assassinations. There arc in all
communities mon who have takon the
livos of othors unlawfully, not as exc
cutlonors Of tho law, and they 20 scot
free. You say they had thoir provooa.
tions. God gave life, aud ho alone has
right to tako it, and he may take it
by visitation Of providence or by an OK,
ocutioner Of tho law, who is his mes
aonger. But whom man assumes that
divine rrerogativa ho touches tho low
est depth of orimo.
Society ia alert for certain kinds Of
murder. If citizen going aloug tho
road at night is waylaid and slain by a
robbcr, We all want the villain arrested
and executed. For all garroting, for all
beating out Of life by club or an ak or
q s!uug shot, the law has quick spring
and hoavy stroke, but you know that
whom mon getsfliuont and high position
and they avongo their wrongs by taking
tho livos Of othors, great sympathy is
excited, LAYERS pload, ladies weep,
judge. halts, jury is bribod and the man
goos FREQ. If tho verdict happen to be
againat him, now trial is oallod on
through somo toohnicality, and they
adjourn for witnesses that never como.
and adjourn and adjourn until the oom-
munity has forgotten all about it, and
thon tho prison door opens and tho mur-
dcror goes free.
Now, if capital puniehmont bo right,
| say lot tho life of tho polished mur-
dorcr 20 With the life Of tho vulgar as
sassin. Lot us have no partiality Of
gallows, no aristocracy of oleotrooution
chair. Do not let us float back to bar.
barism, whom ovory man WAS his own
judge. jury and exooutioner, and that
man had tho supremacy who had tho
strongest arm, and the quickest step and
the stealthiest revenge. He who will
fully and in hatred takos the life Of
another is a murderer, care not what