| From the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph and
Messenger |
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| May 28, 1875 |
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| The Amnesty of the Grave |
| The telegram from San
Francisco, published yesterday in the Associated Press dispatches,
containing the news of the melancholy suicide of Col. F. W. Sims, will
sadden many a heart. Such a catastrophe, however, though greatly to be
deprecated and deplored, was not wholly unexpected. |
| An honorable man, highly
connected, and hitherto blameless in a career of near fifty years,
found himself borne down by debt and misfortune, and in an evil hour,
grown desperate, was tempted to the commission of the deed which
caused his ruin and untimely end. Is it to be wondered at, then, that
the pangs of conscience and a retrospect of the happy past never to be
recalled, proved too potent for the wretched man, and he sought
oblivion in the quiet grave? |
| For the sake of living
relations who are pure and innocent, let us at least cast the mantle
of silence o'er the circumstances which led to the fate of this erring
relative. No reference to the same would ever have been made in these
columns but for the telegram in question, when privacy was no longer
possible. |
| To the twice bereaved wife and
children of the deceased, and his worthy brother, our kindest
sympathies are tendered, though fully aware that theirs is almost the
bitterness of despair. |
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