Indiana Republican, Volume 3, Number 132, Madison, Jefferson County, 19 June 1819 — Page 1

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r CONDITIONS. ' MIEI'CIH.ICAN" wWl . . jjivcrcvi .'it the o'Fice lor two y.r : per ;: r.i:;m, paid in ;'d- ? ; iY pud vdthin two months ; ohscribin x, it cov.sif: V..! i'i advance ; two dollars and , !lt; if paid within twelve " ;-.:iJ three dollars if rut I h 5 tfl the year expires. ,na- villi Iv diseontinutd ariv:ir:i.vs are p:o... j-'-i m! eases a s:i' t!kt must ,puV r-metaally at thv vd t" ,'..ir of int -r:ti. -n to di eoif: or h will be held res pond -s VI j mw vcirs ya'wi union. i, 1 1! . m.-nt-s t Xtiuuiut f . . ;! h-' r;s.-n.u tV.w tink-s j V a dc!i n- ; lo.-er or. s hi pnr.vtlvu aid iK tv.' ;;u:oh,roi i --, ; O u. -ii' '. . n ' , 1 ' .v vcul t v.t.inifd -t the oc- ., nf i'.w a-vKv-rtiser uatiiortUr;T' All Vncrrs to ths ;t t-t: post paid. Liu l-Odlv-v, J c STc r s o n v i 1 1 e , ,i;.n.y. 1 j'v, 1 S i S PERSONS wishing to tua! trtnsters of l.nuh entered in thi odi-'C arc requested not to nitke th::n 0:1 t lie back of the Re.hierS ccitiiicatc hot mi . i.-pirite piece of pio.r. V tVcqjeufly happens, tint by uuifjriri'Tini isdiiriin, on the hdi of ceititivAtes, they become ! ) omtil.ited and djfacevl a; to rhitrov the contents. The lolvifii form nay be used. tor v.iuie received I, A. B. ct county, - diasdnec triri:fer t oC. D. of co inty 3?1 niv ripjit title to the q;i.irter section Po. in tauv,d;ip No. (N -vth or South .is the lis? M: he) oi r ri t ,c oi thr- letfirsonvilie DUti V: o. s Dy land iod e d this day uf" 1 S 1 S . A. I) (Sjal.) T This assignment hiuv ic-Ano-vledrevi before ny jiitive ct the peace, uid ccrtiii. d by the clerk of the county of its being such, will proem e a p iteat. In all civos where te niigitrafe's or cierk's cettiii cite happens to he oa a oinercnt piece ct piuer from the a-5-sie;naient i: will be proper tor theai to set forth the rurtieu h.r tract sold. k will be well for tnagistrates and others who are in the hibit of wri'inp: as ip-n-tnems, to preset ve a copv of fhe foregoh.g as t heir guide. 1 hose who send to the ollice to get their business done, will plase to be prticuhr in describing in a plain legible hand, the tract they wish to enter, and to write their given names at full length. SAM- GWATIIMEY. Savannah April 20. During the sitting oi the stu peri or court for the county ot tnnfTumt Jonathan Evers was tried and found guilty of the rder of Jones. The mur. tier was committed in January ist. Evers being put to the yr judge Berrien pronounced l4 following sentence, of 'kh wc lavs been, funibhcd

with a copy, and conceive it well worth the perusal of every one. We publish it with pleasure not on account ot it being the death warrant of a fellow creature, but because it displays genius and eloquence. The style of the sentence, affords conclusive evidence that judge Berrien must have warmly felt the strict correctness of the sentiments to which he g ive such cleg tin and impressive expressions7 be SiJic vs. y-nzthan Even Murder. The prisoner h ivinrx been put to the bar, and the indictment and verdict of the jury having been read, it was demanded from him, it he had amdit to sav whv the sentence of the lave stiould not now be pror.ounccd aains h;n, and havin answered V.uv he had not, the t- dlowed sentence .v ss thereupon pt onoiuwred by to, court: Pr;srKL I am required to annouure 10 vou the seiucj-ce which the law a o . ards e.'idnst the aiurucrer. Cy a jury or yourcKintiv. you have been con vie el ' -under by implied tii.i ia r shedding the olood ot a i 00, v creature w ithout vutiirient provocatioi" tinv.er encumbrances win- maniHA, in tne 1 tni'U vje ot the i v, an abandoned and "ia!i 1 ant iie.t. t. I: j the performj oce ot this ;i'hul duv, t tere K hiip :evi u p nt me t e t-'. ;,t- .''tg.rto of erut-'avoi iog to aw. ea y u to 1 t; xe st-o e of yo ioi. ra! !c si'.auion. Exhau cm ov th.e iati 'ties of ourtui., I feri now u acq i d I im the to th t out I u id

not tinoYt )i e s'o -r k ed in to d:. hi; c it. Listen with ihc IiUiiuuty whih beco; oei you. to the revokbiost y of vsur ? ioe. btri ee to uriiig your tech gs into .jii ti j x'i m to the s v.v sou :n ies w .uh now await ou. i,niteuiia! v ca?r. V4uiself In ore the mercy of hcavvn, and see'v, through the mediuion of t e Redeemer, the forgiveness of tnat ciime which his ?dreadv flurried you to the wrec of an avvtul eterni'y. i on are vou op, would that I Ctm'd add, you are innocent. The Di )ni yomh tid pht s upon vout chetk would that I c ndd a; i t ie coiisciousness of 1 vs itudc beams Irom your Cvuateturo.e, B it it may not be. The ; ul ie litv is befvre me, ;oidee 1 in vour vouthtul visage I beh Ul the deep, indeliDle impreions with which guilt ever mat ks her i lca victims. Alas I whit is nun ? The child of e:ror die sport of every furious passion- a helpless vessel on the tempestuous ocean of life, whhout a rudder to guiie it trom the shoals ami quicksands of viee. Such is the wretched condition of him who madly refuses to yield himself to reason's guidance. Such is your miserable lot, for having," in one sinful moment, blindly given yourself up to passion's dictates. When I retrace the story of your guilt I am constrained anxiously to enquire, by what .

dreadful infatuation you were led to the commission of this awful crime. The deceased, was your relative the companion of your youth your ; friend. No previous resentment inflamed you against each other. You met on this fatal tUy of guilt 2nd crime, and the smile of rood will dwelt on ourcounten.mces. Even your earlv wranc: in;r was marked with the characteristics of friendly strife. You enquired in a tone of surptize why he was an.nv with you. 11c answercd in the langi age of friendship, bv reproving the turbulence of disposition which you have manifested, bit rather in pity than in anger. Ah! if a considerate hummity hid influenced those around vou -if thev hid been tender of that blood, which may v t be shed without the mo.t art ;ocious guilt, in unlawful sod i should have been cpued the melancholy task which is tliisday demanded at my han is. 1 vvould not for uncounted millions, liave

the t 'it iv can fan the i that man who dame, nay who y stand iy and mt one kindly : i fury, tho r is.e';.ooi ic p.i ioti, C'U. on c it; to a.ii'. o 1 1 it u id-r ' h i:np iocoiM Tate plat.. p.' J .5 .he or wLi; h an . h t e. of t'ui.t that thor. ,;h I) u i to its awful ot the criminal 1 an en ' 1 . you uui V U 1 1 w.ive. 1 ipioUv of :'. e mo you vic tim ot you. 5wn lawless and ungovToed f;js-ioas you torg )t the claims of humanity, the tics of kindred, the empoa; ic m indite of the Gcd wh.o give you being. You seised the concraed and deadly intirumem of your vengeance sev ! criy undercover)! thenight, oir-d its point against your t :e, and by us reiteircd plunge into his unprotected bosom, marked the fell purpose which po-i-sess'id your soui. The deed of death was done. Would that I amid sav, under the mere impulse of wild, but momentary pjsdon. It may not be. Your satiated fury betrayed the deliberate malignity with which you sought to gratify the resentment so suddenly lighted up in your bosom. You closed the fatal instrument of your vengeance wit fi an dibi t at secrecv, favored bv the shades of night, and which escaped the general observation cast it from you- and then, in the bold but desperate and infatuated denial of your ciime, sought the concealment of your guilt. The instrument of your veilseance was found. The life blood of your fallen foe was gushing from tlie wounds it had inflicted. But that demon, which impelled you to murder, now prompted you to take refuge in falsehood. YTou sought to deepen the gloom which shrouded the death-bed of your hapless victim, with charging him with intended murder : of having first used against you an instrument of death: I cannot wish that tins accusation.

were true. I am constrained to say, there is not thr slightest probability that it was so. Every particulir of this direful transaction, pronounces it foul and slanderous the desperate refuge of desperate guilt. Much as it enhance your ciime, and little as I delight in the contemplation of human depravity, I rejoice that it is so M he hapless victim of vour vengeance sleeps in the tomb, hurried by your lawless hand to his dread account. To you guilty as you are, time is vet allowed to make your jcace with Heaven. O ! do not spend it in the continued indulgence of those passions, which have thus early blasted your earthly happiness. Do not, I conjure you, waste it in unavailing hopes of mercy from this miserable world, whence you are too Mitcly hastening. Eook rather with the anxious solicitude which sincere repentence alone can inspire, to that divine mercy which is never sought with

contrition and saught in vain. Look to the transactions of your past life. Shi ink not from the icview of your crimes. 4 Delay not the tci vnit penitence which can alone efface them! Da you want an additional motive for repentence? Seek and find it in the unutterable aneruidi of parental mief in anepaish excited bv vour crimes O 4 4 inAOvd-h' t,? hi.; (o-ipvtvo.r-in g moment of all other consolation, but that whiJi your penitence shail edTord. B hold the tears of your aged parents! They are the silent reproaches which are extorted from bosoms bursting with aeronv, over the recollection of the crimes of him to whom chey have given being They tell you of the head strong obstin icy of your childhood of the idle profogacy of our youth of the fruits ot their rejected admonitions, in the melancholy catastrophe which has thus early closed your sad career. . They point to the grey locks, which age has blanched with the symbol of honor which you have covered with dishonor and shame. While they yet hover around your prison, ministering to you with a tenderness which even your guilt cannot extinguish, their fixed and melancholy gaze is turned to the darksome patch, wdiich your crime: have marked out for their descent in sorrow to the grave. To such an appeal, you cannot, you will not, be insensible. No. Nature will assert her rights in your bosom. Filial duty will lead you in penitence to the foot-stool of the Redeemer. His mercy will yet snatch your immortal spirit from that awful eternal perdition, which is the just but terrible doom of un repented murder. . Miserable young man 1 We must part. It remains only, that I pronounce the sentence of the law It is considered and ordered by the court, that you, Jonathan Evers, be rc-committcd to the comrnoa jail of the county

of Chatham (there being no sufficient jail in the county of Effingham) for safe and secure custody that, you be taken from thence to the place of public execution in the county of Ellingham, and there on Friday, the 28 h day of May next, between the hours o'f ten o'clock in the morning and two o'clock in the afternoon of that day, that you be hung by the neck until you are dead . and may Almighty Gcd have mercy on your soul

Tc the A 7-1. ri can Pec 1 lie board of managers of the Ameiican Colonization Society beg leave to by before you the follqvung letter, from their agent Rev. Mr. ?di ad, relative to a most interesting subject, to which they some time since solicited the public attention. They return their waimcst thanks to thc-e from wdioebeiievulence they haverecived contributions; &they hope that, although a considerable sum is still necessary tor the attainment of their obict, their appeal to the humanity of their fellow citizens will be cilectu iL 'Contributors VV'H piea?e in send their names and unv.s to Dai-id Ltglisfj, Esq. trcisuitn, Md.'cdvtvdle, May 4, 1819. My Dear sir : This day which was to have been the? day of bendrje and sorrovto Ul . ie v ii ic on wboMS account t was sent to this piacey has been turned into a dav of liberty and joy to them. At least f confidently hope tliet the arrangements wc have mace w II eventuate thus fvip: h ami tnat, before the year is ended, they will see their native land and all which they love most on earth. The governor has postponed the sale, and afforded me an opportunity of seeking, among the humane and generous ef this couthc n country, the means of thtir redemption. I enter upon this task to-morrow, by convening the citizens of this place to form an auxiliary society. An attempt lias been made to recover these poor creatures into the hands of certain individuals who were concerned either in their first capture, or in their purchase and introduction into this state but there is, I hope, nothing to fear from this combination ot avarice and oppression against the claims of justice and humanity. I arrived here on Saturday evening, and on Sunday morning walked out to their little encampment in the vicinity ot, the town, to see them, " As f approached their habitation I found them gathered around a, good old man, into w hose care they had been given, and who was telling them that some good people had sent me to prevent their sale, and carry them back to Africa. I wish you couu! have been with me to have w itnessed their joy; they crowded around me, and by turns t oic hold of my hands, & in broken English expressed their grau tude. lney at first fas t lie v nun told me) would tear a tv