| Show HANGING ac november 23 1849 professor john W webster murdered dr george parkman at boston massachusetts in a room of or conne connected cled with the medical college as has since appeared on trial a and by websters confession the parties were both of high standing and the tb murder and trial have created great excitement through the eastern country in the boston journal of sept 11 1850 we find an account of the execution of professor webster on or about the ath odthe of the same month A As c EA EAST BY DEATH IS BT by A BROKER nece after the rev dr putnam put Pat namo naro standing in the door of the cell had bad addressed the throne of grace in a brief and impressive manner in yoking gods holy spirit to accept thena thera the pen pent tance anoe of the fellow being who wa about out to be sent into his presence and beseeching that it might be sincere lie he alo also prayed that the hope of forgiveness which the prisoner had been permitted to entertain entel tain tein might be realized and concluded his prayer by committing the prisoner to almighty god and beseeching that he might be numbered with the redeemed of the lord while reading the above we recollect it is ritten written in the saints bible that the savior taught his followers to pray to his FATHER mt in the of jasus and nt not to GODS holy HOLT SPIRIT also that no murderer hath eternal life abiding ID in him query how can a man be numbered with the redeemed of or the lord who has not eternal life abi ding in him hina to conclude this subject we give the following quotation from the recent redress of the secretary of state before the general assembly of deseret on constitutional law so long as an money alone shall remain the great grand governing principle and main spring to action in popular education goso loso so long the education of man will be made a lucrative trade as much as an the priest and thel the katter hatter the lawyer and the tailor the doctor butcher and kings jester jeater ra and the mass of people must remain in in ignorance I 1 and leam learn only to be rode rod lost at t as the few learned have a mind to hide ride them and quietly be imprisoned and hanged when the judges and priests have a mind to hang them bot dot what have priests to do with hanging perhaps nothing directly only to hear the culprit say his prayers or try to pray out cut of existence an unpardonable sin the profession of hangman hangmen is not very ver y congenial to their feelings but bat indirectly they may justly be held responsible they have set them selves up as teachers of the laws of god and the gospel and if they have not taught the doctrine of the halter when they have seen men the nation nailon hanging their culprits strangling them wm with their blood in them they have hive not stepped forward as aa the dignity and nature of their office required and taught their rulers better and when men professing to be teachers of righteousness see their neighbors doing wrong ignorantly and they neglect to warn them the wrong rests upon the he head mad of those who wilo thus neglect and the priests of the united states and christendom generally at hav having i neglected their duty in in this th r thing the blood of all men who have been hanged in those nation nations st by legal authority may jusdy justly be required at the hand bands of their priests what saith the great law book on this subject J e ct when cain killed his brother we have no account that any law had been given against murder iut but his sentence sen terice was wa to be A fugatti e and anil vagabond 1 klond ilond in the midst of the earth as a warn Rg nto to others 0 hers kerm a and zid zie a 3 mark was set met upon him hloi bv the lawgiver hinch lest anyone any one should slay him in process pro cess of time the law same ame shea shed sheddell deth delb mans blood by man inan shall his blood be shed and the reason is given because that in the blood is the life of the flesh the mere act of designedly sign edly killing kuling an innocent man is the same game to him whether it be done by poison strangling lin or the sword it is murder aad aid is punishable is le with death and that punishment should be the letting lettine out of the murderers blood upon the earth that the smoke hereof may ascend towards heaven as the only of fiering offering the great lawgiver would accept in any degree towards opening r up the way for a remission of the crime and eternity must unfold how far even that may tend to its intended effect without the shedding of blood there is no remission remission of sins in the whole jewish economy there was nothing strangled permitted ted to be used either as food or for sacrifice it was an abomination if jesus had been strangled hanged or poisoned so that his blood had remained in him his death would have brought forth no atonement for the sins of the world he himself might have been saved because he was holy and needed no atonement but if his blood had not been ebed he would not have become a savior to others and it is just jut as necessary that the tho blood of the murderer should be shed to bring about his salvation as it was that the saviors blood should be shed to bring about the salvation of the world and the priests who have not taught this doctrine when they have seen the people strangling their fellow beggs beings are responsible k at t this instant gov young exclaimed IF perhaps aps they are ignorant and know no better when the speaker resumed and should they plead the ex cuse of ignorance themselves a double curse will Nill rest upon them for pretending to the most exalted profession when they gere were were ignorant of its duties not having been called of god as was aaron let such priests bew beware are when they are called to account for blood and they begin to inze inge c cry aloud for help logt leet their gods be found in the same dilemma with the strangled victims of their ignorance or like the god of baals prophets so soui soul sound id asleep they cannot wake them the infidel guillotine of france is far more christian like than the christians halter |
