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Show 1 111: rxiiuiioN or .mcilvaim: If those who have all along upheld electrocution as a mvanaof Inflicting thodiath enalty because of the claim that It I mom lu uncord with civilized and enlightened methods, will read aud carefully consider tho detail of Mclhaiuc'a taking off at Blng Blng 011 Monday last, we doubt not their Lonclualous to that eud will undergo rovlslon. Wo all understand thit, for the protection pro-tection of aoclely by means of removing remov-ing tho daugerou clrsse and by thu examplo thus atlorded, lives aud lllir-ty lllir-ty must at all times be taken; I tit tbo authorisation to do to, which Is fouul irlmarlly In Holy Writ and Imme diately In the local law, dois not either lu express terms or by Implication Impli-cation command or justify luhuman or unusal prscllcea lo eltrct such endr. Wo can properly go no further than cjt oil a forfeit Ills and In doing to assuma the full limit of a-ilhorltyu-ioevd lu ua; to go further and add torture tor-ture to the victim as well as repulsive-nea repulsive-nea to tho spectacle, la at onco to plate ourselves tutilJe thu Itw furwantof authority and Justification. Bucli an act doit more It turns backward thu wheel of rogrus and luskrausoncu moru npjear ns If wo arlook of Iho ipltlt of barbarism which actuated man In hi dealings with an enemy or an outlaw In the dark ages; that la, wo seem to nd I to punishment rovougu and r rati Ileal Ion of a morblJIy vicious a petite, This It not an evidence of clvlllxitlon, a claimed, but the reverse. re-verse. Thu fact Is, the age I given to cn satloimllam, to the incouragiment of novelty and tho fostering of cxil-mentallsui. cxil-mentallsui. This Is well enough, er-hap, er-hap, when coullned to lugltlmato o!.annel, btilns bad as can bo when a lied lu so profound an I dangerous a autject ns the taking of Human life by ho methods ot Itw, Huch uccailon Mould call for all Iho luuienallsm lu our nnturi, for Hie complete absence of even thu somlltnco of ja-tlon, and alKjoall, fretdem from JuggllogauJ, llukorlng, 110 ruattir how well educalinl and profound tho Juggler Jug-gler and linker may lo. Thu suljict of death, tspcclall) when It I to bo practically applied to olhirr, should be ap reached not a the means of ixircislnglcntntlve skill, but with a reasonable degree of awe and aotrmii consideration. It has Wen uis lo Iho king of terrors lu order that by our natural lustlnct weinayketp at ,'iir from It u wo can and assist others In doing sn. Tim slightest invasion in-vasion of that quality 1 o much of a couttslou Id that Influemu amoni man, which la ier ImJIng htm Into forbidden ptlis, and uuchtcUtd It .prumotoacirelesiuoss, In ilir rviiceau calloutneis, ami at last lln whu nr so ltd look wlliiotit sorrou upju nP r lug mid unmoved Uiu death ltiuli,ui matter how lulllctel. |
