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Show THE; LOGAN NATION. 1.00 AN. UTAH. FRIDAY. VOL. 4. AiMMI. L7. 1H04 NO. 4 willlout any limitH-- 1 Them was no one to prosecute her to imitate the crime for whii-l- i ii a lather mix found murdered in a liuished. A few mouths later began to kxtk Uxn them with LEGTURE ;;lh"r his dehtli ti:st ami the morals of mankind or any sort; and for !)0() years case, Neither ho continued in is inflicted. It should not l. so slii'il near hix borne. Tbe only" he tavern kerpi r will I'lUifiMS-- and ex- grew better. men shudder ciimthe other the st ou lied, barbarous the that eon do I hliethit-place of ImninD bhxxl was the same gentle strain, iu perscii itof how bud s sbouln in who It time diivcU'il uf A ml t he gallows once the crown was murder a sou. the no more." sin and the pscculiou demit plained Ou Capital Punishment, by regularly put to death by thee; go to render as brutal its of fasten to his lie tlm it so to a of never from some swelling eminence, the his And she wtut .'UToidiiig iixm youi:g relative of his victim. testimony presence Noble Wnrrum, Jr. ton. amt eisti doubtful. dissolute was execution Soy ii to benediction e.iii a and woman better r, There were cases continually cynosure of ten thousand eyes, tha Eng-ut.in The death Irish for the Not ami unxious of nil oliservers-iio- w more observed was tliut ago the earth. which great hurrister, this in many years Surely is IT SHOULD CEF.TAIilY BE ABOLISHED coming up however, O in was said dclivof event the punish-ablfonnel his which a iu father tliau from public view aud effective humane and more eluvu Moses worked stealing law a hnrdsliip. speech 1, myst ff, ' hilling in tliednrkejt corner of tbe with death- The law con- li.ii.dy property would full to him. rixl in Exeti i hall: himself recogniwd this fact and the d ailli penalty would hnvc HuOem The luniiwnt Have thousand-thousantimes-Thor bocame iu tliu'i' an utter l'lm till the his slims bri'theis it murks tinued b v ro'e out an iimeudim-iithus by the gloomy jail. Its xjwer is waning ii s been, Itoath l llit- - Miwt bevi-rof of convict u man from the found to snow iiume be wi ;v mid its dixun is sealed. should v.' death 'They Ere long in t'leiiiiiiiiig. solemn he lending ie which iN'iialty uupossibiliiy keeping gave orFi: tint; Im i..liuieut. house to tlm scene of tbe crime, iudicti'd for murder i.i.d foiiin! it will lx cast aside and labeled to his successors, with tbe cliarg. a I (oils lied because it bus a ten liix-stealing. Iio mutter r the case nor conclusive the l'lie hammer, with which tlm deed uilty by a jury of three cuiidiy Inmong tlm luubaritiesof the past tlia ns soon as they reached tlm deucy to weukeii and destroy the 1 have never Iwn in favor " itli the videuceNo jury would find a sr.s iq piiieiilly commuted, was men. 1 sat at my window as they Man bhxxl shed. urul horror of Wl.iitiai; I uat add should land they capital puiiLdiiuent. And since promised thui I br.vs lived to om f uf a such niter when drawer iu ina (Missed found seaicli i death' revulsion an has inherent aud his by, the upon agsiusl eigldxir guilty enacting clause; it has Leeu suggested that 1 take meant his death - when i: the young mini's private desk, had been (iionounc.'il upmi ilmm. w lieu the hiking tlm life of his fellow man for the subject of iny address this structions were csiried out. great truth at length begins Under this amendment cities f His instincts revolt ut it -- his con- meant a widow when it meant with the IJiNkly evidence of the 'hcrewusu large military 'uarei to llhit 1 will tell a evening legal topic, itlierless children. And so the ciime still upon it. Tlm sou wax escorting ihi-ii- back to jail posi- An utteruiiiM frmi tha deep heart ( were established for the science condemns it his franu. you why 1 am opposed to the refuge" uumkiud His life was tively forbidden to allow any of it. But rime was practiced with impunity. trail si.il convicted death penalty. 1 lielieve that accidental ninuslayer, who, pre- shudders at the thought hlariiwit and clear, that all revenge ia with the three unforud the only way it was arrested, ta sen to satisfy the lnwof life vious to this time hud been killed, lit him see or know of first om crime." puuishnient should be neil for lie only way in fact it could evci Aud yet lie was innocent! tunate youths. But their inolhei 41m prevent iou of crime and the along with the wilful assassin, by and then another being strung iq uml she, armed with the was to In a lew ) i nis the sister, on l;ei was ami tlm lieuven next and beeu kin. of To between the cover faith iiave suppressed, A SUDDEN DEATH. refoimutiou of the criminal rather of her direction tu broke the herself the confessed civilizu and iu and Moses i'll soften raxe a iu chuir When wrote: or strength it, penalty. point strangled, than for the puriose of retribuof the deed. Kim him through the guard to clasp them Amelia Christiansen Dies Suddenly Aud yelciipitnl punishment Ini:, peipi-lratoa mnn gnctli into the wood witis electrocuted ; surrounded by the tion or revenge. In Salt Lake Cit- y- Burled is in killed her father mid fastened tin. in her arms, i saw her embrace it as severe as Ids Ixvu hew never of to and solemnities wood, neighbor deprived religion, There are old Mosaic laws In Logan. disher oldest sou who whs hut 22 eis more savage clime upon her blot her, thus which ara frequently quoted by his baud fotcheth a stroke with of life under a decree of the couri mind to li- it Our readers have prob1 Logan jnd his great regard for the inn severe. Why, it j places tin posing h) who sbxxl between eurs of Hge; saw her clasp to advocutes of this form of punish- the ax to cut down a treo, and the all heard of the sudably nearly her heart the second who was but hft and the estate. head slipjietli from tlm helve and sacred ness of human life rapidly alprit where the liberty of the ment, but in those days were den of 1 death, hen-liAmelia, daughter of Murder is afMimo which must 20; saw her faint as she clung to can never taunt him; w his neighbor that melts away. many laws which would not lx lighteth upon 11. J. Chi istiauacn, at the Templele i.eck of her youngest boy who lie die, ho shnll floe unto one of Here he reasons, is a umu slain progress of the woilil will ut course la committed in applicable to conditions as they where a guilty und therefore the proof of its whs only IS; and 1 usked wlmt ton hotel in Salt Luke City, where took clmfc cities was those life live. and never he The murder. for him; exist today. According to that she has bei-- employed for some Otlu-recouqx'iiss could be made for expressions of the same perhaps us worthless ns that which conscience may not annoy him; commission must Ixi mainly ancient code the death laumlly y But the evidence such agony Tlioso boys were time (Mist. The young lady was availed those who did their old law of bhxxl for blond are he gives iu expiutiou of the crime. nor a memory of km wrong haunt in Lognu last week to attend the l given elsewhere in the Pentateuch If our spectator happens to bail him in hiH solitude. Who lure mav e emphatic and tlm circum- all ext ruled and they were all inchores up ou the Sabbath--w- ho funeral of her foster mother, sister nocent. severs times. It is repeated in father, he says tlm corruptor o! uffered must for ths murder o' stances ouly eoirolxiratii a, aud They were eventually M. hapi'ned to miss it iu prophesy- tlm Laura Ixx-Christiansen, and was iiuiia'L-nt exonerated still tlm liy the confession of Life for my daughter deserves death more lis fellow many Meu have may suffer that passage which Buys ing who swore at hid parents or apparently enjoying good health, murderer-Ithe real stole a bluve for the market oi liTe, eye for ej e, tooth fur tooth, than this homicide. If he is a Ini rued ut tlm stake, they havi penally under which remrution, has it since been learned although dcveliqi-inentthese cases were the (tenuity hand for hand, foot for foot, burn- Imsbaud he might say the calum- een cut up by inches, crucified, demanded by subsequent kept a hooking cow. she that of pain iu Not complained made. can not lie imprisonment for life, sulisequrnt Now such a code in force today ing for burning, wound for wound, niator of my wife has worked poisoned, beheaded, Imaged, elec her aud rubbed hack, with liniit in disclosures or coufesxious might All these more injury thau has this man t roc u ted and shot. They have many years ago there lauded would iulolve many of our most tiipe. for stripement to relieve the (tain. And yet the law makes no pro met all with defiance or uncon- New Turk City a young Herman. ilx'rato the prisoner and restore law abiding citizens in tr juble. clauses mean the same thing lieu the sad news of her sudarc used as for Buck punishment in cern. But Cain was lelt alone He lodged in the kilclmu of a xxr )im to his friends; and some vision simply they synonyms Compared with such rules and den death was telegraphed to Lorestitution of his rights at least and he said: family with the privilege of preto more forcibly express the ides either of these cases it provides with his regulations the owncrH of unruly gan Tuesday morning, all Linds of he made. But when kiue might find a trace of justice conveyed in the ancient law of a light ism alt y iu comparison, for My punishment is greater than i paring his food ou their kitchen might thou were afloat as to the taxm minors stove. While thus engaged one you strangle him to death, tlm the seducer aud slanderer. So the can bear. in the present astray law. As a homeopathy. of cause her and partly deuiiie; often While tlm harsh decree of life fat her or the husband takes bin This danger of executing tile day, the husband and wife, a truth, so tardy, may come iu matter of fact in those nomadic for the of the ! quieting became Next vain. involve purjxme t year may prove him quarrelsome pair, times they had no prisons nor re- fur life was softened to somo ex- rifle and, without the sanction ol innocent is not a mere of and and tongue scandal, hut it can never call the gossip form schools uo place to put the tent by its author's amendment, the law, dona precisely what the conjured up to exejte prejudice in a very violent altercation, innocent, paitly for the purpose of ascertainsenseless to scuffle the woman was life a it nor It in law done has day case. the again, uther liually repealed During altogether punishment. capital HgaiLst character no other dangerous the true cause of the unone who tempered justice alAud there is something ex- has actually happened fearfully suddenly seized a knife the Ger- give the mother Lack her son, nor ing society frmu the by way k expected death, a restore the and his to father plunged it orphaned than by disposing ol ways with mercy and who gov- asperating to sober minded penpl too often." Upwards J one hun- man was using, fxamiiiatiiiu was determined on. children. of love remorse instead of force. In iu the pernicious Expressions him permanently ns Moses di- erned by sympathy dred such cases have been kuovn into her husband's heart Frenti Four competent.', lx will or physicians ill done the his wasted had the woman sermon on the mount regret created by capital punishment for in the annals of English ai what she rected. TLe great legislator ol mode the examination iu the cold uml of ear street when of the life fur life," the convict awaitiug its penalty rushed into the deiilli, and how many crying dull, the Arabian descit cstablislud of several all presence witnesses, is it too late the meantime has statute nu his iu In the clmracterislio wuy: The murderer netnnlly I weenies a the emus lie buried in do murder.'1 argujuror these rules of conduct, not Imcause whom of certified over their he ment can understand. to the been said German hath auto you (by hero in the eyes ot many. lie is pisixl graves tlm sprang only young he thought them the best that It As citizens there rosin upon us signatures tliut death was caused with flowers aud mows. In this country the record assistance of the wounded man, could he framed for his jieoplc, them of olden time) an eye for an surrounded the presence of several tumors, all the responsibility uf these and and him in his drew a tooth for a anus tooth, but Isaiks, burdened with the luxuries has been almost bb full Tbiuk caught but because their roving state ui d eye located iu tbe lumbar region, in 1 any unto you that so we us mistakes knife. nut resist m t of life, aud entertained by the if it! Hundreds of guiltless men the long uphold oi ye tribal customs would not permit the immediate neighborhood of thisfexr-uevil. who execution tolerate (lie and And of world he the entered Officers l people taught of anything better. toothing voice of sympathetic gouo iu their innocence to murthe The kidneys. Home grief she sufmule-liwe new alarm at lesson the found need of the tliut house the d jienalty. sny returning woinauMoses was unquestionably one Although his days may derers' graves gone amid ut the deuth of her fered to for hold check in the tie: evil. this iu saw German the ions and denunciations, consystem be numbered, he is a lion while position of the greatest lawyers the woi'd good caused the disease to take At another time Jesus was stand- they last the envy of his hrs scious of their innocence, yet bloudy weapon in his hand -- and Missions of dost men xml has ever seen, but he umdc laws hold on her, and hustcu.Hl tinner a violi-m-to iu A the secure clothes us his woman blixxl one the and of temple. guilty murderous friends. Certainly we helplessly entangled in a web against ujioii for the exigencies of Ins times and ing fate a that was inevitable. Khe not for the changing conditions of of a capital offence, was brought should over lie merciful toward 'ste, woven of tlm wnrp of malice or two imaginative jiersons lx crime. But t in English tjiiukfi', otherwise have lived for might licvt-thim. Ixi before John uct has There iu strikwas the no to of him answered this. wisif of circumstance. ques- the sinful, remembering our own uud the. Bright a world that is gradually growing hut tlm end would have mouths, He of her The when real The blow tion second for a detected, Mr. Fitzrny Kelley staled on ing misdeeds and imperfections. Ami secnrily guilt. bays: in civilization, intelligence and tin same. aud Pharisees formed a procession we ought to regard with benignant tlm floor of Parliament some time and the womun to shield herself lUiiiHii life is to be found in a nvii morality. And yet many of his GD. Fjeldsted has Brother and womarched it. for I about the fallen law reverence If the What d could re the accuse lmd men (human. laws are Ihwh today and will lx compassion those w horn crime lint ngo that forty such cases ftt r interest iu tho mat-(- x man with stones in their hand-- , dix nued to suffer. But the slayer mown and proven in England lx; mnn' plain What more: con- ganls it as invi. .lable, then the lak,Ji lawn w hile time shall last. t. r, and did all that her father oplo will so regard it." Modern lawyers and lawmakers, ready to execute tlm mandates o! is vut a hero and should not be done during this present cen- clusive cvidi'iico of guilt could if lnve ljal tlu- lawllieii old l lime These But court demand The freqin-utin wherein cast s, wom::ii made to resemble one. Any system tury and stand today upon rniy with tile ages before re. lie look the first train to of wished to a the with tlm Christ innocent with lias to suffered fatal a otheis swore blow; nuder which this false pbihnr records of tliut country as annoy them, with the wisdom of sages are excused by ndvocuh's Halt Lake, and brought the laxly at their command, makes some practical demonstration of the tli ropy piospers is bound to do solemn protest against the system. swore to tlm second bluw which of the death (a'lially who call its lioinc oil Wednesday evening, for Essays on was not delivered only because Dyinond, iu his laws that will not stand against weakness of his (xilicy when np more harm than good. to a li such case. The victims ninrtyis to the enforce- burial in the family there was cites one assize in their interference; Another objection to the dentil Morality llagraut the growing enlightenment of plied funeral services were held mankindThe learned Black leader cried in a mocking maimer penalty is that it facilitates aim which not loss than six inuocent alone with the murdered mail ment of those rules wln-r- by the w'a,',l meeting house u ' How almut in love sermon knife welfare the of hud his the baud A with been rt'iiiiiiuiiilv re in often insures the escape of tin Hrso;is your bloody general hanged. stoue either misinterpreted ,l1 Bu't' a like ease "'"i lul this?" ts,lr,l,,y ho called liiiiiiitu is iinil New not could and ciicum tlm Turk This upheld. or read it tluough the fog guilty from any punishment ut xirt compiled bj of the the standing inclemency whi'iievi.-it lx'conie was the menininx'cnt ntuutii.l several Urn ever shifting sands of Judea all hy human law. Jurors dn ai legislature evidence; yours ugo pluin; it of sujxirstition which lxjcluudti! well ami were weather, attended, law i: Aud of it so the the icliuis was German of fails which tions the trains evidence, lint only jHJMtivo. the people of his day. lie said: have left no record of wlmt tin to convict where the penalty funeral iho was a long cortege xciutcdis. to m the But was led conscieuc its i iu have hr the some cases, ion, hut ii accomplish To deny the (mssibility nay limn of mercy wrote hut it was no death, lluuinu tribunals ore stricken woman afterwards cou injures the very persona it was one. actual existence of witchcraft ami doubt a request for clemency. A fallible. Evidence may lie plnii execution of innocent men. Brother Christiansen lias our mean I to protect, creates tlm veiy In one instance groans were fesM-d- , and her confession is sorcery is at once liutly to cou any event the rubble was not satis and conclusive; but the testimony most sincere sympathy in his evil tlm to was it of uml that matter lieil cure, with the writing, for theii may he misleading or the wit heard in tlm apartment of the record, desiguid story tradivt reveahd word of Clod ii uflTlicliou. 1 he loss of an affection- tlm German the was should it told correct preby destroys (H'uoe various passages lioth of the old iNikesman usked with a sneer: nesses may lie. Aud circuin rime, those who hurried to the ate wife and a blooming daughter And in Shall we turn this woman loom stances often point a false cou rescue found a man bending over anil that she alone was guilty o serve. awl new testaments. I am lixikiug forward to the within a period of eight days, this country there was a tiun on bociety, with her reputntiou to Ur io ii. Judges aud juries nitty the murdered jsrxon a lantern in the crime. .T" while he himself is absent, and he well witch-cramistaken as as the mob. his left hand aud a knife yet dripA young man by the name was punislmbb the ruin of our youth, or shall wi time when this sanguinary penally when . stone n and they are liable though in ping with the warm current of Boynton was convicted not long which asks life for life shall lx was denied even the melancholy her to death according with death, and the solenn pleasure of gazing upou their law of Muses ? And Js&m lesser degree to make as grave life in his bloodstained right whom these case ngo iu ImuisiunH, for the mureler abolished ill every slate uf this judges features they were con kiiu Aud of an error this lie that is without errors. with horror stricken countenance, of a fellow Luurdcr at a country union. In mauy it is ul ready u were tried believed the law uu mswered to mother Earth, is a trial signed questionable uud tlm (tenuity just. mii among yon may cast the first admits of no remedy. Ollmr aud lijie which, in the presence of tavern- He earnestly protester thing of the (ast aud their few called on to men such are as for re the dead seemed to refuse to deny his imux-enrix'iinlties '.pave a chance to the last. But is tin strongest argunu'iit But whenever time aud tx(x!ii xtiiue. He who in May through. (mss How wise aud just was his in- imrntioii, hut to the victim of rii the crime, iu the very act of w liich the eirrnnixtnr.ces and the evidence with which to him'ii to others. And enco disprove a theory, and when wisdom His this great xrinittcil shadow sentence no he was surprised. And yet, many of the tavern keeper were too The gallows are ihxinied. When ever conditions demand a clmiigi terpretation of the law! W'liat n unjust death Christiau-scto trial fall brother oil of be made. a requital cau laws art louder appeal for the trembling these inappropriate years after, when his memory iiiiicli for biiu and ho was sen ever an institution ix'gins to hide comfort him in Ilia sad The memory of such a wrong alone could lie benefited by the (diced to hang. When the alien ' from ol nervation, to hold forth iu amended or repealed. There is hi prisoner! How effective the bcreavi limit. old Mosaic law for murder -placed iu her accusers'. must haunt the community where- discovery, it was Hscertaim'd that wasnlxiut to adjust the rojxi to his dark and secret ('laces, it is traveltin ho wan not tlm murderer, hut like neck, tlm prisoner sprang from ing towards ol iliv ion. When Whoso slieddetli mail's bhxxl b At tlm same time he quelled i in the mistake occurs; and Gtxxl Cowi Wasted. man shall his bhxxl bo shed.' mob and saved a soul. One by om dread of another such blunder other witnesses had licpn attracted the scaffold, am rushed anion druukenniws nnd licentiousuefis Cows will lie taken on Gixxl his de- were public Himiseiueiits, the usual terms at the old That, of course, refers to niiyom hose savage, vindictive arms fel must weaken the arm of justice. to tlm Bjxit uKtn an errand of hu- the sjHctators, llyrum that kills: awl iu other parts ol nevertheless, I lie clamor ceased, Ileal transgressors recognize the manity to aid his fellow being in clarations of innocence and crying growth of morality was very slow. Dairy. For further information in ths scripture it is iterated awl re- t ie crowd ditqierscil, aud the wo- fact and grew bold consequeuce, distress. piteously for help, lie was soon But when they lxgan to hold their apply to A. M. Israelseu, not made be shook! The is in which another words was aud tlioee secured aud the wurkof death was court iu private places, tlm world man alone There left with case Christ in penalty in iterated, I AH INTERESTS I 1 r I'ircuiii-siauci-- - i d, l, - i t iH-bl- n- - ' how-le- xt - . ; i fo-lif- Un-re- , lix-kc- 1 1) r 1 1 up-igl- it e t, r 1 n n s, - cou-cieuc- e, bug-bea- - post-morte- m . law-break- juris-irudi'iie- e, midis-coYrr- ed All-wi- se : - foster-moth- er mi-liv- e l 1 - V ' - f J1 -- lot-Th- - e t - tin-Bibl- r - 1 ft h-tl- a e - e u, I rejx-utiii- lly-rui- n- ( |