The Sedalia Weekly Bazoo

Davidson and the Press.

The ministers are having a hard time with Davidson. He has got it into his head that all the newspapers are against him and blames them for his present condition. He could probably just now find more genuine satisfaction in asking the Redeemer of the world to forgive him the one great crime of his life. The newspapers are upholders of law and order; they will shed no tears when the drop falls and all that is mortal of Frank Davidson hangs between heaven and earth, and while we say this we know our responsibility and will not shirk it.

When God said "Thou shalt not kill," he uttered it with thunder tones, and from that day to this it has been the main stay on which our laws have been propped up. Take it away and murder will run riot in our land.

We advise Davidson to make his peace with all the world. His was an awful crime—the slaying of a fellow being in cold blood. The newspapers had nothing whatever to do with the killing of his victim; nothing whatever to do with the verdict of the jury; nothing whatever to do with the decision of the Supreme court; and not one of them have said aught against him or tried to influence the Governor in the way of defeating his petition for a commutation of his sentence to imprisonment for life.

Although none of them have anything to say to influence the Governor in his favor, that is not a sufficient reason for his present animosity. If he will sit down and calmly view his crime, he can but see that the decision of the court was just.

So far as the Bazoo is concerned, it is willing to render the doomed man any assistance that we can in what we believe to be right and proper. We have lifted our voice neither for nor against him, although we have upheld the judge who passed sentence, and believe the sentence to be just. We but utter the wishes of our brethren of the press when we say, "May God be merciful and wipe his sins away."

His crime was great, but let us hope that the sacrifice he is to offer up will be sufficient and acceptable in the sight of his Maker, and that he may find peace and consolation to his troubled soul in the reflection that "God giveth and God taketh away," and may find rest when he passes beyond the River of Death.