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The Gallows

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
December
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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.--The gallowfi is a alíame toCfuistendom- is not required by Scripturc; and in the present sale of society, at leaet, cannot bejustifietl by right reason . ltmakes more crime than t cures. It ia a piece óf awfol and perfectly nmieceásary cruehy. Ponisbment there must be - prisonp, doubtless. - But even these are eurely cnpuble of great improvement. They are at present too ofte colleges of roguery, fion whieh the graduates go out to burn, plunder and kili, upon scientific principies. And tbey are almost ahvaye places of qjiiHe unnecessary Buffering. Tliey ought aW tO1 b conducted a"pwi the principie that the worst man isstill a brother, and thot crime is only a 8pecies of insanity. A pnson should be a place where a nan nmy not only but be happy. S'uch is is the opinión of tho 6iib-cditor, for which no body else ie

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Signal of Liberty
Old News