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Show UNWRITTEN LAW. VestcrJaynsorDing wc called tbc attention at-tention of prcDts to th danger ans- io apolicocmrt report, wo publish details de-tails which arc simply hornfyipg. A xirl no nwticr what hor inclinations may have been, was evidently wiled awav, drugged, and abused in the Ti!e:T maimer. Kvery purc-miodcd pcr.ou must regret that statutory pen-allies pen-allies for ich offences aro utterly inadequate in-adequate to meet the mfguitude of the dime. TbisU the reason why common, com-mon, but unwritten and unrecognized law, has impelled juries in all parts of the Uaitcd States to acquit the slayers of those who commit such crimes. The law bays, and says emphatically, that he, or she, who kills another with malice prepense, or malice forethought, has been guilty of murder ami should suffer the penalty therefor. But national and state enactments do cot provide a penally for the crimes of adultery and purposely designed seduction, se-duction, sufficient to satisfy the demands de-mands of the common scuso of justice which reigns in the bosoms of the great sovereign people. Hence juries have been found to invaiiahly acquit the killer of the man who has seduced his wife, his sister, or his daughter. Wo hold premeditated killing to be murder. But, wo also hold that this crime, which the voice of common humanity, hu-manity, expressed through juries in all enlightened communities, and which the voice of tho Eternal, proclaimed by his prophets, pronounces a capital offence, should be by statutory enactment enact-ment visited by death. And, while we do not endorse tho illegal killing of aDy man, we do maintain that by statute man should be awarded a full penalty for so heinou3 an offense against tho laws of God and nature. |