Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser

The editor of the Village Record, in noticing the execution of John H. Craig, at Chester, Penn. on the 6th instant, for the murder of Edward Hunter, Esq. concludes with the following very appropriate moral remarks:

"It is a truth worthy of particular observation, that those who are about to perpetrate crimes, seem to be actuated by a cunning equal to their malignity. The spirit of Satan seems to accompany them - to prompt them to the deed, and to suggest the means of its execution: and yet, the moment it is effected, all their cunning, and even common sense, forsakes them; and the Evil Spirit abandons them to their fate. Haunted by the horrors of a guilty conscience - stricken by the curse of God with mental blindness, they expose themselves, even by unreflecting confessions, or by other means, to certain detection and punishment. These considerations, universally true, and so fully exemplified in the case of Craig, ought every where to be inculcated, and should serve as a constant warning to those whose malign passions stimulate them to violate the laws. The murderer cannot escape - not one in a thousand but what, sooner or later, comes to a violent and ignominious death."