Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-07-08
[CoMMUNIcA1RD.
THE LOVING TRIAL.

Every individual OF our communities
who has grown up to the age OF mature
observation, inquiry and considerate re-
Election under the Influences OF whole
some parental instruction and the re-
ligious admonitions of the churches, is
supposed to become fully aware of the
great moral and religious necessity Of
curbing the passions to the end that
there may be no infringements of the
rights of others, no offences against the
laws, mo commission of acts through the
wrong impulses of hatred, revenge or
avarice; and according to the fundamen-
tai obligations imposed upon all who
become responsible members Of the
human compact every member of that
compact is in duty bound to be an ex-
emplar of equity, justice and christian
forbearance. If this duty were fully
and conscientiously recognized and full
filled the status of all our communities
would be far nearer the millennial type
than at the present time, but theories
are far in advance of practices,
Nearly two thousand years have
passed since the Christ of Judea pro-
cls:;ss,,. u :! aa roriG- me great doctrines
of love, charity, forbearance and good
will for the government of all its
nations, tribes, kindreds and peoples,
but in their waywsrdness and
perverse inclin ,tions they have been
slow to accept the 5enefactions which
His mission and sublime teachings made
possible for their advantage. Our land
is filling up with churches. Our age is
one of religious organizations, Jealous
and aggressive csteusibly, for the cause
of the Master, but the statistics of mis-
demeanors as currently published in the
newspapers denote a widespread disre.
gard of moral and religious obligations,
not only in the lower levels of society
but among high social and official grades
of life. There is a spirit of unrest per-
vading all classes of our people and main
ly dne to the inordinate greed for gain
which in so many instances, is over-step-
ping the bounds of fair and honorable
competition and usages of strict integrity
and setting pernicious examples which
soener or later will bring their harvests
of evil consequences. There is grow
ing disposition to under value usages
which the trial and experience Of gen.
ersliOns of our ancestors proved of
sufficient value and usefulness to be
revered and cherished for generations
to come. This disposition is evident
in the common plea of manslayers and
assassins when arraigned for trial by a
Jury, that their offences or crimes were
inasmuch as they were only
Just visitations of vengeance for injured
honor, character or deprivation of life.
This was the plea of Judge Loving just
tried and acquitted in Halifax county,
Virginia, for the murder of Theodore
Estes. He averred that his daughter
had been drugged and assaulted by her
companion Estes, although he had had
only vague hearsay evidence of the
matter and he believed in the frenzied
and abnormal condition of his mind that
he and no one else was the commissioned
authority to kill at the moment the man
so accused. This plea the Judge and
jury accepted as the main ground and
principle for the determination OF the
case, and the verdict of acquittal from
the day the Jurors were empaneled and
sworn was forgone conclusion. The
court simply affirmed aud approved the
hasty, unwsrranted act of the killing by
Loving and unblushingly reafirmed the
verdict in the case of the Strothers and
proclaimed by their action to the world
the righteousness OF the new heresy
of the "higher law" that every man
in Virginia might henceforth, for real
or fancied provocation constitute him
self for the moment q proper count
with law unto himself to seize shot
gun or bowie knife and make due and
ample reparation for the offence.
The Loving trial from beginning TO
end was q farce and the empty, disgrace
full proceedings might well have been
dispensed with altogether, 80 far as the
majesty Of Jurisprudence was involved
and the unnecessary expense attending
them amounting to well nigh two thou
sand dollars been expended on the i'm.
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of the poor or the promotion of general
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