Marshall County Republican

EXECUTION OF LOPEZ.
The murderer was hung on Friday, on a high hill about a mile west from the Court House. He met his fate with great fortitude, and died like a brave man—Composed to the last. Just before the to him fatal moment, he took a quid of tobacco. We saw him, nearly, just as he left prison, and then his countenance was unruffled betraying no sign of agitation or apprehension. We hope our County will not be again the scene of a Public Execution. Such spectacles are without any good tendency, and but serve to indulge a hyena-like appetite of curiosity that should be scouted at, so unchristian-like and inhumane. In a savage land, where dwells the cruel, barbarous and bloody brute barbarian, who knows neither pity love nor moral sensibility of any kind—among cannibals, who eye with horrid satisfaction the feast of human blood with which they are to glut their hellish appetites, such scenes are appropriate—not in a Christian community. The pure in soul cannot delight in witnessing the death-pangs of a fellow-being, however criminal—the will revolt at the hideous and painful spectacle.
Our friend of the Banner expresses surprise that there were men on the ground dressed in female attire. We don't think it surprising at all. Might they not have been distant relations of old Loper who wished to witness his exit, incognito?