text:  May we not ask why is this? How comes it that in a Christian country murder is tolerated nay openly approved? that the assassin is protected and concealed instead of being delivered up and made amenable to the offended laws of his country?[38] Can the ministers of that religion professed by the vast majority of the people have faithfully discharged their sacred obligations if men be found professing the religion of Christ and understanding its precepts willing to enrol themselves as the hired bravoes of a "Black Sheep Society " and to butcher their neighbours for a petty reward? The Roman Catholic religion condemns murder as strongly as the Protestant religion; yet how happens it that a whole community professing that faith winks at the crimes of the guilty? This total demoralization we look on as the worst feature of the case