The Robbery of the Treasury of East Jersey in 1768, and Contemporaneous Events

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Excerpt from The Robbery of the Treasury of East Jersey in 1768, and Contemporaneous Events: A Paper Read Before the New-Jersey Historical Society, September 12th, 1850 Never, probably, did the old Court House at Morristown hold a larger or more interested audience than on the 19th August, 1773 - seventy-seven years ago. A thousand persons were thought to be within its walls, and, among them all, scarcely an eye could be found which did not exhibit the sure tokens of sympathy. The scene - to witness which such numbers had assembled - was calculated to enlist their attention, for the wholesome supremacy of the laws was that day to be displayed over those who were their countrymen and fellow-citizens - of some, friends, relatives and companions, who had ranked in that class of society, which the honest, intelligent people of the county at that time, were accustomed to regard as the best within its limits, but who now were the fallen, subdued objects of commiseration. An affecting silence prevailed throughout the assembly, while awaiting the commencement of the proceedings, and the deep solemnity of the occasion was long remembered. Arraigned before the bar of the Court were four remarkably fine looking men in the vigor of life, one of them a physician, another the son of an esteemed magistrate of the County, all of them were married, all were fathers, and all had parents living, and there, among the multitude, were those parents and other relatives of the first respectability, gazing at the painful scene. Under these distressing circumstances, humbled and sorrowing, came these men to receive the dread sentence of the law: for what? - over-anxiety to be rich: "Covetousness disbelieveth God, and laugheth at the rights of men" in that, the bane of so many and of all times lay the root of their offence, and the end attained was the judicial mandate that, on the 17th September following, they should expiate their crime upon the gallows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.