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Show SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. An I'ncomtltutlonal Law. N. V. Sun. This provision, intended by the cranks who framed it to throw around the death chamber aud the death chair a mystery like that surrounding a torture room of the middle ages, stands in the statutes as a disgrace to the civilization of which we are proud. It is against publio policy, it is impossible to enforce ; and it is defied and will continue to be dufied bv every self-respecting newspaper news-paper in New York on every such occasion occa-sion as the execution of Kemmler at Auburn eleven months ago.and the killing kill-ing at Sine Sing yesterday morning of Sloctmi, Wood, Smiler and the Japanese Japan-ese Jurigo. The law which vainly seeks to restrain the press of New Yorl: in the performance of a publio duty of the tirt importance, itsolf delies a hit'her Inw, namely tho constitution of New York. In the bill of right which constitutes con-stitutes article 1 of the constitution, and which catalogues the most precious heritages of freedom gained by hlsod, it is agreed ;nd forever decreed that "no law shall bo passed to re.-.traih or abridge the liberty of speech or of tth9 press." |