Excerpt from Crime Punishment: Or the Question, How Should We Treat Our Criminals?, Practically Considered
The greater part of the following remarks have been long written, and the first sheets some time in type. Recent events and discussions have induced the writer to urge their completion, and publication. But it must not be supposed that the object is to discuss the question of punishment by death; that, however important it may appear, is only a matter of minor detail, and will not at all affect the great principle contended for: indeed, if capital punishments were to be immediately abolished, considerable increased difficulty would present itself, and no where would it be more apparent than among the abolitionists, it being advocated by many of them, not so much on the ground of high principles, as from a wish to introduce a more horrible, terrifying, and protracted punishment; these mistaken philosophers are at once answered by the fact, that the present absurd mode is infinitely more benevolent, and rational, than the object they advocate. Every reasonable opponent to the abolition asks, "What should we do with the class we now blot out of existence?" To which the opposite party are by no means agreed in their answer; it becomes us, therefore, to examine the principle which should influence us, and temperately, but deeply, consider the important question, What ought we to do with our criminals?
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