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you maile upon poor lloughton—a man faithfully discharging the perilous duty of guarding the city in the hours of darkness and sleep, a man who hail never offended you in the slightest manner, and whose person was wholly unknown to you ; and yet this unoffending being you stole upon unawares, and by a giant’s stroke, with an instrument used lor the slaughter of beasts, you felled to the ground, forcing with the violence of the blow, the libs through the tender organs of life.“Who but one made furious by that poison of the soul, whose ravages havo been described, could have done a deed like this—without provocation, or even the motive of revenge, propelled on by that general malice which seeks lor human blood, indifferent from whose heart it flows. And shall it be said that this self-created madness shall excuse, or even palliate, the acts which it causes ? Shall the enraged and furious drunkard kill and go free of punishment, because he has destroyed his reason ? Clod forbid ! that so dangerous an opinion should prevail—Clod forbid ! that to the incentives to intemperance, already so powciful, should lie added that of impunity of crime— (Jod forbid ! that man should be allowed to make himself a brute, that he may devour and destroy without being called to account.“No ! the law allows of no such absurdity as that one crime shall excuse another, but holds every man accountable for the right use of his reason, n resisting the temptation to drink, as well as in avoiding such acts as drunk-cnocss provokes.**
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Gettysburg Adams Centinel
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Feb 08, 1826
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