New York Herald, “The Sickles Tragedy,” March 12, 1859

Source citation
“The Sickles Tragedy – The Opinions of the Religious Press,” New York Herald, March 12, 1859, p. 4: 3.
Original source
New York Observer
Newspaper: Publication
New York Herald
Newspaper: Headline
The Sickles Tragedy – The Opinions of the Religious Press
Newspaper: Page(s)
4
Newspaper: Column
3
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Newspaper
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Exact
Transcriber
Don Sailer, Dickinson College
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The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

THE SICKLES TRAGEDY – THE OPINIONS OF THE RELIGIOUS PRESS. – The religious newspapers all seem to agree about the recent tragedy in Washington. We have heretofore published the opinions of several of them. The following is the verdict of the New York Observer:

The daily press is discussing the right and wrong of the affair, some defending one party and others condemning; but the Christian judgment is, that a scoundrel died like a dog by the hand of a murderer. There is no need of mincing the matter, or writing long columns to determine which was the most guilty. The wretch deserved God’s wrath and curse, and has it. It was not the right of man, even of a wronged and ruined man, to inflict the judgment. But it came, swift, terrible and true. Its lesson will be wholesome.

Congressman Daniel Sickles of New York murders Philip Barton Key in the street in Washington D.C.
Washington, DC
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