Edwardsville Spectator

Arbuthnot and Ambrister. By our laws, when one man murders another, no matter how worthless to society the victim might have been, the perpetrator is hung up by the neck, and but little emotion is exhibited, except by the immediate spectators of the execution. But when two wretches, whose crime (that of instigating merciless savages to indiscriminate massacre) is beyond all comparison more flagrant, are cut off by the military law to which they had subjected themselves, a whole country is divided into assailants and defenders of the energetic officer who freed society from such monsters; and its magnanimous representatives gravely and earnestly employed for weeks upon a subject so plain, as almost to disgrace the intellect or the motive which could raise a question upon it.

One of the consequences of the execution of Arbuthnot and his fellow demon, predicted by those whom prejudice, accident, or various other causes, had enlisted against Jackson, was the indignation, if not the vengeance, of the British government; which, they triumphantly foretold, would demand the punishment of "the murderer of its subjects."

The decision of the house of lords, however, has put the question at rest. We think those vindictively humane and outrageously benevolent persons, who clamored for the sacrifice of Jackson, will feel not a little humbled and mortified at the perusal of Liverpool and Bathurst's remarks; and we hope they will form their opinions and calculations less precipitately in future, that they may avoid the like error and disappointment. American Watchman.