Nuhou, Volume I, Number 10, 28 March 1873 — "The Quality of Mercy is not Strained." [ARTICLE]

"The Quality of Mercy is not Strained."

i This quotation lrom Shakeepeare ie used by a * writer in the Gaz€t/c, (a legal pen) in critjeit»ing | our appeal for merey in behalf of Kuheleaumoku, hiing on the 21et inst. Of couree mercj is nofcj or constrained; bufc i* free, and| "■cndureth fbrever." But he would n]|ercj, bj eu!)jeeting it to thc quotatiou 44 who so| Bljeddeth mair e blood, bj man ehall his blood be shed. ,? 'Why not also quote, 44 an eye for an eje,| a tooth for a tooth/' whieh \vould leave out mercy altogether; either 44 Btrained," or un-: strained. Thiß ie the kind of man who goes according to the 4t letter that killeth," and notJ " the Bpirit that maketh alh'e." Yery likelj if[ he had been in Jerusalem in the dajs of Christ he would have denouneed the Savior who said to the aduUeroue woman, '' go in peaee, and ein no| moie," aB an encourager of prosutufcion. JEven| Mre. Averj pefcitions for fche pardon of Foster, the cruel inurderer of her husband, ;