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AN INNOCENT Man Huse PROBABLY There is
some reason TO believe that John Gordon, hung
last week at Providence, for the murder of Mr.
Sprague, was really innocent Of that terrb crime,
and II So he has fallen victim TO the forms of law
contrary to the principles Of equity and Justice II
will be recoected that the evidence on the trial OF
this man was circumstantial, and very thinly So
extremely htmsy. Throughout the whole period
OF his imprisonment and 10 the latest moment of
his existence, the unhappy man protested that he
was innocent The very moment before he was
launched into eternity, he declared in the most
solemn manner that he was perfectly innocent OF
tnat murder. There IS A strong probability, there
fore, taking al the circumstances into account
the slight nature Of the prooi-and the solemn as
snrances Of the prisoner Of his innocence, even al
the last awful moment-tnatthep poor man was huns
without having been guilty OF the crime. We do
not wish 10 excite auy sympathy on the genera
principle Of opposition to hanging, for we think
that that punishment is az proper as any OF the rdi
cuious plans proposed az a substitute by the enthu
siasiic phllanlhropIsts. But hanging an innocent
man - very different afTlir.


TIE Hon L. G. LEvN.-This gentleman deli
vers his first lecture, this evening, on the extension
OF the papel power in the United States ip the Ta-
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