2012, ISBN: 9781231868003

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...effectually to organize and promote their patriotic system that the expeditions to 1 Adams, Memoirs, December 24, 1817. I Galveston and Amelia Island were carried into effect, and that the successive gangs of desperadoes, Scotch, French, Creole, and North Americans, that no public exertions have been constituting the republic of the Florida. Yet such is the propensity of our people to sympathize with the South Americans, that no feeble exertion is now making to rouse a party in this country against the government of the Union, and against the President, for having issued orders to put down this host of freebooters at our doors. Your preparations for the next spring elections in Massachusetts appear to be judicious, and I hope they will be successful. I neither see nor hear anything more of Brighter Views 1 nor of Old North 2 than what you tell me, and there is at present not much to be apprehended from the authors of either of them. We have the prospect of a troublesome Indian war in the South, and its bearings upon our political affairs may be more extensive and important than is expected. I am, etc. TO CHARLES COLLINS Wash1ngton, 31 December, 1817. S1r: Your letter of the 24th instant,3 with the enclosed paper has been laid before the President, who has directed me to thank you for the information which it contains, and to request you to obtain from the same source any such fur 1 Lowell? 2 Benjamin Austin. 1 Collins' letter is found on p. 10 of the papers accompanying the message of the President of March 25, 1818, laid before the House on March 26, and printed as document 175. This document does not appear in the American State Papers. ther intelligence of the designs and proceedings of the various parties who successively occupied Amelia Island in the c... Weight:0.72 lbs, RareBooksClub.com, 5/8/2012 0:00:00, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...of a late or early reformation? B. We hardly know that there would be any difference, except that the term punishment would be discarded. P. When you read the cases which are every day recorded in our police and criminal courts, and see culprits sentenced to weeks', months', and years' imprisonments, with or without hard labour, or to penal servitude, does the thought jump into your minds that few, if any, of the culprits will be turned loose upon society unreformed? B. We carry away thoughts the very reverse of these; for scarcely a day passes in which we do not hear of some outrage committed by a ticket-of-leave man, or by a man who has Already been convicted and punished. P. What would your thoughts be, if criminals were sentenced to terms of imprisonment measured by the prospects of reforming them? B. Our hopes would then be that very few discharged prisoners would return to criminal courses; and that the number of those who did would become smaller and smaller gradually, as their keepers became more expert in reformatory treatment, and better interpreters of the symptoms of genuine repentance and improvement of character. P. Which mode of magisterial and judicial treatment is more likely to lead away from thoughts of vengeance and retaliation? B. The reformatory. It often strikes us that feelings of bitterness and anger, with a desire of inflicting pain upon criminals, especially after more than one conviction, colour the magisterial language in passing sentence. P. Which system affords the better opportunities for rectifying decisions when they have been given in error? B. The reformatory again. For the innocent, though convicted prisoner, might soon impress his keepers with the feeling that severity of discipline should be relaxed in his favour, and ... Weight:0.77 lbs, RareBooksClub.com, 5/14/2012 0:00:00<

ISBN: 1231868007

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