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1 E. S. Nadal, North American Review: The Rationale of the Opposition to Capital Punishment 138 (1873)

handle is hein.death/narrop0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Rationale of the of Bjornson as a poet. For wellnigh a century Norway has been clamoring for a .national literature, and every new author who appeared since the year 1814 has hastened to exhibit the national colors and to emblazon the beloved word upon his phylactery. Henrik Wergeland, as we have seen, spanned the earth and the sky, rose to heaven and descended to hell, all in search of his own precious nationality ; and failing to find it, at last contented himself with declaiming upon the greatness of what he did but imperfectly understand, and which for want of a better phrase was called the ancient, sea-engirdled Nor- way. Welhaven's voice had a truly national ring when he sang the praises of mountain, valley, and fjord ; but Bjornson saw in the rugged Norwegian peasant the true type of the na- tional greatness, and pressing his ear close to the nation's heart he heard the throbs of its hidden emotions. And when he raised his voice and sang, every Norseman felt as if the voice were his own, as if the words had welled forth from his own inmost soul. Therefore in Bjrnstjerne Bjrnson has Nor- way found her national poet. HJALMAR HJORTH BOYESEN. ART. VI. - THE RATIONALE OF THE OPPOSITION TO CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. IN Burke's Celebrated Trials of the Aristocracy, it is re- lated that when the young Lord Altham was a slave near Phila- delphia, and was running away from his master, he fell in with a man and woman riding upon the same horse. The young lady had been forced to marry somebody against her will, and the pair of lovers, taking with them some money which was not their own, were hurrying away from an angry father and a deserted husband. They invited Altham to partake of their meal by the roadside ; and while they were eating their pur- suers came upon them and they were taken to Chester. The young woman and her lover were tried for theft and hanged. A hundred and fifty years ago this happened just outside of Philadelphia, quite as a matter of course, which reads oddly 138 [Jan.

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