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Show THAT AVMUL I.TU'lllMI. It wnt an awful crime, that for which Ilonry Bmllh, tho Texas nsgro, was consigned to the flames by an In-lurlated In-lurlated mob, yesterday. Ilut thu enormity of his olleuse Is almost lost sight of among the slckoulug details of the torture to which be was sutjected before being allowel to deliver his stained soul Into the hands of eternal Justice. No sympathy la due him. Uven the most sentimental will feel that lie deserved perhaps uvea a worse fats than he met. Hut notwithstanding tbls, Is Knot a fact that the executioners of that wretch made themselves murderers, nt that term Is defined bjth by human and divine law7 If so, tbey too will have to render an aooount for y est r-day's r-day's deed. Tbe (limes that enclrclod the quivering body of the tortured victim vic-tim at tbe stake msy some time be rekindled re-kindled in the consciences of the tormentors. I Acts of lawlcssiKSl always breed disastrous consequences. History tenohes this lessen on every leaf. In tho uilddlo ages when torture and auto (2 1 S were sancllonel by law nud superintended by brigbt-robed priests, tbeconstqueccowas that tbe spectacle was looked forward to at a feast. It was enloyed not only by tbe rabble but bythearlttocracy. "Ladles" and "gen. t!omon"wero Interested spectators. Tbe bruMI passions wcro fed and fostered by tho frequent occurrence of tbe horrible. hor-rible. The satno causes will no ijoubt bring the sains results in our own generation, unless some remedy ii speedily found against that species of anarchy which finds Its expression In thodotUuoo of the laws by the mob. |
