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PASSING EVENTS. 431
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partners consequences as soon in as the the in firm future law will lias by quite app not lication fail done to to with secure the these clergyman themselves worthy or coup from the les reg disagreeable , istrar the female .
empting " Now a what married reason woman is there from , founded the consequences in justice or of expediency her actions , ? for ¦ To thus beg ex in - tirel with the und assumption er the control on which of thei it hus is founded bandsat , namel least y when , that present all wives , we are fea en r a -
grea y t many British husbands will be read , y sorrowfully to exclaim , ' Would bishops that they and were novelists ! ' However would , granting have us that believe all wive wh s should were as they submissive alone be as
become priveleged amenable to do wrong to law without have acted pay more ing the or less penalty , under y ? the Half influence the peop of others le who .
cases That may where be the a good offender ground was for clearl miti y gation not a free of punishment agent , it may , and be , accepted in extreme as
exonerating , of discretion the accused and is ; but of sound in strict mind law every ht to person be held who accountable has arrived for at oug
years of whatever age to thieve he does , even . If thoug a parent h the sends child may out , a obey child with of fourteen the greatest or fifteen repugnance years Butto the
the law does not admit the plea of compulsion . , according same in law Smyth the , a presence marrie it will d be woman of remembered her husband may commit that with his impunity any wife crime took . ( In short an the active of case tre ~ ason part of the or in Kev a murder lot . Mr to ) .
commit , murderous assaultand was present when it was committed , yet p the jud was direction ges seen held to of p her i that ck a husband she pocke was t , . her exonerated Another , husband , case because standing occurred she by . acted recentl The throughout woman y , in which was under acquitted a woman the could not be for could
on the ground of coercion ; the man punished , nothing permissible impunity be proved should against in all be cases him abolished , . and Now to , There be either decided is the onl b p y one lea the ground of jury ' coerc , which or ion else ' could this ought formerl solitary to be
• have woman been was urged irrevocably , and that bound is . now to her to a husband great y extent for life removed , so long . as So he long had as the y a miht createthere
reason should is sole in ri a g for great ht be not to removed all degree considering prop reme also erty . died which her There , a it free she is is agent time possessed another that . But absurdity or the now corresponding g that , the this , converse cruel legal absurdity was fiction of some the d at the timeParents and children
brothers former bear another excused testimony , , which from and and g sisters might very iving in his , properl well evidence favor are be by y remove law Not so against . admissible long A wife her since , same husband on as an the witnesses undefended other , . but she for hand _prisoner or is , forbidden is against not in onl one one to y ,
hk of ppen our courts , as he wished alleged to , that call . no his one wife else to could prove , testif an y alibi to the , and same it mi facts ght . easil Now y The miminot have believed
here terested the woman was witness a , manifest just but as injustice they undoubtedl mi . ght y or they mig jury ht could not ght not have or pronounce believed ght any a satisfactory other
inhibition nothing verdict until to on be the they said , other on had behalf that had of would the the opportunity exemption not have of equal on jud the g force ing one . hand as There app , or lied is the reall to pro all y -
the the witnesses law other of . who evidence We , from trust will whatever that , not in be the reason lost long si , g -promised may ht of have and revision a that strong the of bias anomalies our on criminal one we side have code or
, name Our d readers will be will amended perhaps . " remember that in the case of the notorious and criminal would have conviction had the
wholesale murdererRushthe escaped irl - whose evidence , doomed , him to the gallows , been his wife instead of his mistress g , . writerdesirethatarried le
shall We be heartil held y responsible endorse the for their own ' s acts , , subject , m only to or the sing same , extenu women -
Passing Events. 431
PASSING EVENTS . 431
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1858, page 431, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081858/page/71/
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