The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-04-21
DR.. kINGSBURY'S LETTER.

siauder The great gen ana as'eu:
enemy 81 their country f<t u. .aentic-
that after the three admirable h.ozra-
phiss that lead in ihe order named na
sell Johnson IocAhArt SCOTT Tr.te
lyaas Nacaulay- their ar. scores 81
highs interesting t8orra hte a@e,s tl-
=" sure - read Mars r4ftisaa- N5t.aa
StoE:osd Brooke MILTON .a4 I.a
Southry. I eoali sage> maas ot
rulch charm and merit.
John Wesley Charlez wesley George
WhIjeiell an1 three or four Other rs
dents ~ oxford Uayerssty. weTc :he
earliest movers III M-thet.s,a. later e
followers included such scholars ANA uea
OF very remarkable abilities a. John
Fletcher. Adam Clarke. JOSEPH Benson
Richard Watson and Richard Cokr Sleh
were some o. the great men who stood
ty Methodlsm in its lnf4nev. Iha
ara.cl Ir. Archibald AleNau3er. Fssl
dent Of Princeton Collegs nos a ~
University. said Of Richard Watson ri.
he was the only syStcu.zcr. who l,
theology. approached Tho cmineree
Turretin. o. reasoned lIk, Ealey. iii.
described like Han Referring Is Robert
Hall This Industrious Bapts, preacher
and orator. said of watson that
SCARED INTO regions or thought Maare ms
genius Bat his own can penetrate Hal
Was. l nave thought for torty years. m.
greatest pulpit orator Of tta
nineteenth century. and now that
il is closed. I cen find none
TO equal him. Lord Nacaulay. Reg. john
Richard Green. q minister Of the Church
Of England. and William :. Il. I1cky. s
sccptical writer Of great ability. all these
pay the significance and Importance ~
the great Wesleyan movement In Eng
and most marked consideration. They
were not favorable to Methodism. but
appreciated its tremendous Importance
and its very great founder. Lecky de-
votes thirteen OF his octave pages TO it,
consideration English conditions We're
simply awful when Wesley entered upon
his great work Of spreading Scriptural
holiness in these lands Bishop Stevens.
Episcopalian, in his History Of Georgia.
says that John and Charles Wesley Were
men of deep learning and ardent Ie-
| votion," that in scholarship bet few sur
passed them; that in the exact and na-
tural sciences they were we'll vcrsed. IN
the classics they were great profcicnts.
reading. writing and conversing in Latin
and Greek with ease and elegance" Ito
says while in Georgia they Frequently
corrcspOnded in Greek" because their LET
tiers were intercepted. and TO prevent
housekeeping they .~converscd in Latin.
He says that John Wesley was versed In
nine languages-EngliSh, Hebrew. Arabic
French, Spanish, Italian. German, Latin
and Greek. He tells that he held four
services on Sunday while in Savannah. il
four languages-English, French, German
and Italian. No minister or statesman
Of Great Britain ever had greater eXecu-
tive ability. Macaulay says he was mot
inferior to RicheIieu,' the eminent
French statesman of the past. Buckle
seems to agree with him. according to
citations by Bishop Stevens. He also
gives another interesting statement
Bishop Lcwth, the able commentator and
Bishop Of London, whose commentary !
have owned for forty-ive years, when
contemplating the career of the great
divine, exclaims-tMr. Wesley, may | he
found at your feet in another world"
Is it a fact that hangings in this coun-
try nave become a comparative failure
If so, what has caused it? Is it on ac-
count Of poor jury trials or an unsound
public sentiment? Perhaps both are
combined and responsible for murde-
trials having become to a great extent a
very dead failure. In the North the
Qedll penalty is We'll nlRn DIdye1 OUT.
It is so very rarely administered it Is
said, that the fear OF it exerts' but lit
tie influence" How is it in the South?
How is it in North Carolina? There are
a great many killings, very many muir
ders. How as to hangings? The gal
lows has lost much of its old horror, ard
restraining power with it. A Northern
paper opposed to the death penalty. some
years ago insisted that in it's section the
jury trial in murder cases had become a
''mockery and a useless burden upon the
public" It even went SO far as to say
that 'the practical effect of jury trial ls
to defeat the ends of justice" 1t is no
wonder that year by year crime much IN
creaSes and murders and Shootings and
rapes multiply. The paper-I neglected
to mark the name when l clipped the
editorial-gave this, and is very sugges-
tive as we'll as alarming:
in the year 1890 the proportion Cf
executions to murders was as one in
forty-tWo; in 1891 it was one in forty
eight, and in 1892 one in sixty-three. And
in the same years the number of muir
ders increased In an inverse ratio-from
4 900 in 1890, to 500 in 1891 and G,792 IN
1892. Thus it appears that in 16,98S
known cases of murder the Mosaic In
junction, az life for 2 life, was carried out
only 1872 times
The wonder is not that there are mony
lynchings held, but that they are not five
or ten times more numerous than they
are. 1t is stated that the unreportel
murders are not included in the above
figures, and that they actually count by
the thousands. What is to be the out
come? Will legislatures act and do some
thing more for the protection of society
and the intimidation OF brutal ScOundrrls.
or let crime go UNPUBLISHED, and villains
escape the just penalty at the hands OF
outraged justice? The answer is not en-
couraging. The paper quoted from says
this. and it is worthy Of the attention
of North Carolina lawmakers, %jurisis
and lawyers:
Whether solitary confinement for life,
amounting to living burial, would be