Judicial Murder

The fotiowing sentence of Dealh porpoTts o be Trom a New Orleans paper. It was pronounced upon ji younsr man of vlnm we know illle more Umi is here incidentally memior)cd, Tíio triaUook placa in South Carolina. The Judge defines hís crime thus: llYoti commillcd the offencc of aidt'ng a slave to run qteay, and depat t f rom her mas Ier' s service: and you are now TO DÍE FOK. IT]'r SENTENCE OP JOHN L. CROWN. BV HO.N. J. B. OEAiL. John L. Brotan:It is my to armouiice to yon the coneqnences of tbe onviction which you heard t VVicnsboror, and of the opiniort you have ust heard read refusing your two foJd mo'ion n arrest of judgmeut lor a new trial, You re to rie! J)ie a shameful, ignominious eath, Ihe death upo íhe gallows. This anmnicialion is to you, I bnow, most appalling. titile did yon drea:n of it tvhen you stepped uo tbe bnr, witli nn air, as if yon tlionght il vas a fine frolicif. Bot the consequences of urne are justwich as you are reaiizing: pun shment of'ten coniC9 wlien it is least ëxpectd. Let me imreat you to take tie present pporlunily to commence the work of reJormlion. Time will be aÖbrded io you to pre)aje for the great change, which may be just jefore you. Of your pist life T unow nolhincr, except int which your trial furnished. It. toid me mt the crimt for wlt'.ch you r.rc now to Buffer vas the consequence of a want of atlenüon 11 your part to the (!uüe3 of tifo The si range womm" snared yon: She "flattered vith lier word," and yon became her victim, 'he consequence was, that, led on by a deire to serve her, you coinmitted the ofFence f aiding1 a slave to run away, and 'dpart from er masters service ; and you ure now lo die or it. . Yotr are a. young man, and t ftar have bepn n idle as ivell as a dissolnte one. ïf so, thoíe cindred vices have contributed a full nieosure o yrrnr ruin. Reflecl upon your past life, and ennkè the ooly useful devolion of the reiuuant of your ays in prejiaring fcr d.eafh, "Remember now thy Creator in the days ot hy youirt" is tho nnguage of iospired wisr-mv 7'his comes lióme apprupriatcly to you, t this trying moment. Yon are young, quite oo young to be where j'ou are, ai.d if you had emenibered your CreaVor in your past days, ou vvould not now be in the fel on7o ]lace to eceivt; a felon'sjudgment It ia uot too late 0 rcmenibpr your Crealor; he calis early, and ie cills Inte, he stretches out tho arms of a. at hef 's Iove to yon, lo the vilest sinner, and ays, "come to me, and be snved." You can perhnps rrad,. jf you can, rend the Scriptures, - rend them without note, and witïiout comment, and pray to God for his asïsïance. and yoü wili be ablè to say, when ou pass from prson to execntionj! os a poor lave said, under similar circumst unces, "I am j!ad my Priday has at last come." If you cannot read the Scriptures, the nitöislers of our holy reiiofion, will be ready to id you, tliey will read and expbin to youKunil you will beable to understand, and undertanding, to coll upon the only pne who can ie] p and" save you, Jesus Ciirist, "the Lamh f God, who tnkelh nway the 6Ïn of the vorld." To hiin I commend you: and thro', m may you have that opening pf the daypringr of mercy from on high, which slinll )less you herfi, and crown you in in everlastïg vvoríd, as a saint, forever nnd evei. ÍThe sentence of the 'aw is, that you bo ia cm henee lo the place from which you last ame, rhence to the paol of Fairfield Dislrict. nd that ihere, you be closeJy and spcurelv önfincd uutil Friday, Mie L6th dny of Anril extj'on whjcli day, between the honrs of 10 1 the fbrenoon, and 2 in the nfternoon, y.on vili be taken to the place of public execution, nd there be honged by the neck till your ody'be dead; and may God have mercy on our -soul. We hnow noi. how Ihe piely of this address may strike the inind of the render: but conidering the nature of the offence, t his sen-ence appears to us mticii that which we may cuppo?e vvould hove been pronouncerl by ie High Priest of the Jews upon Jesus Ch rist.' ind it fallen to his lot to give sentence in his ase. The motive fqr Ihe commission of ' the of ence" in this ense is represeuted to have been personal attachment. Put the act itself was no crime at all in the ight of God, or anf of Ihe human race exept a slaveholder, or his contcmptible iipologist. It was in accordance with' Christjanity, ind the act is annually perpetrated by many lliousands of Christians. The devilish and infernal nature of the law may be realized by npplying it to every person who has ever holped a slave lo escape: for be it remembered, he ís to be hangeü for this and not for any attend ing circumst anees. If he deserve deatii, therc ara more ihan one thousand of both eexes mMichigan alone who are equully guilty. Wil! they rmember him who is bound ns bound with liim? They hnve reason so to do.' for their case is preciscly similar, nnd had the slaveholders the power, they vould all lik this young man, "die a shamefal, ignominious death on the gallotes." Yet this scheme of judicial rnurder is a necessary eafesunrd of he bloüdy institution: and Ihose who personaliy upliold f.he diabólica! eystem by their practice from one generatíon to anotlier, are eulogized and extol'ed for iheir piety and patriotism by otif prominent ministers and church members of all denominations! (JCThe tax on pleasure carriages in Cincinnati, amounts to $34,443, levied on 41S carringes.