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eomSstcs and the strangers that with them, re-
norseaessly Offering them all up as great sacr'hce
to his aend like revengeP What have JoA part
ed with your understandings and lost all knowledge
of moral distnction;p' In honor, however, to the
nyope OF Kent-and greatly is tito their honor that
t can be said with truth, that they awoke them
selves, Of their own good sense, to s5uster view OF
their duties--yet still, but for the honor, the inde-
pendence and virtue d the governor, it would have
been too late to have saved the state from the stigma
(Which had been so nearly hxed upon its character.
Let this be warning to all future times--and let 1t
be forever remembered that government has never
vet. against its own better knowledge, immolated
victim TO public Glamour and fury, that history has
not stamped upon the sacrifice its just character,
and devoted its aethors to the well deserved exc
craons ofposterity 1t only remains to correct an
error which has gone forth with respect to this mat.
ter, The fatal tree was not plantedthe collin and
grave clothes we're not prepared as 1t has been SAID
merely for the purpose Of extortng confession
from the culprit nor was his pers'sng IN declara
,ions Of his innocence, amid these solemn prepara-
rations, matter that weighed strawwith the 60
vernon. There were deeper and worthier cons,de-
rations then influencing his mind, and which finally
led to the measure of pardoning. ltwas not simply
the circumstance that there was no positive proof
of this mans guilt that he convicted upon pre-.
sumptiye evidence Ii was the whole case. with all
its attendants, which wrought simultaneously on the
public mind an entire regeneration OF sentiment
that found or made the governor its fearless advo.
cate, in despite Of all, the influence which would
have been sure to have pressed down weaker and


meauer spirit, to base surrender of the life OF hu


ina creature to what seemed, but was not then thu


call of public Glamour.