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Ghent, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): article 15
Affecting Anecdote.
--On one of the many bridges in Ghent stand two large brazen images of father and son, who obtained this distinguished mark of the admiration of their fellow-citizens by the following incidents:
Both the father and the son were, for some offence against the State, condemned to die. Some favorable circumstance appearing on the side of the son, he was granted a remission of his sentence, under certain provisions; in short, he was offered a pardon, on most cruel and barbarous condition, namely, that he would become the executioner of his father!
He at first resolutely refused to preserve his life by means so fatal and detestable.
This is not to be wondered at; for I hope, for the honor of our nature, that there are but very few sons who would not have spurned with abhorrence life sustained on a condition so horrid and unnatural.
The son, though long inflexible, was at length overcome by the tears and entreaties of a fond father, who represented to him th