Excerpt from Crime Punishment: Or the Question, How Should We Treat Our Criminals?, Practically Considered
It has pleased Divine Providence to shower profusely its blessings on this land: it may not be too much to say, such blessings are, either immediately or remotely, connected with the liberality Of our institutions. May we endeavour, therefore, to go on towards perfection, by thinking deeply, and intending seriously to adopt the treatment Of our criminals - the vicious, and the erring - according to the simple teaching and example Of the Messiah. The inquiry IS a large one, and it cannot be justly said to be deeply gone into in the following remarks; but it is presumed enough has been said, to show the importance and necessity of deeply entertaining it.
It may also be asserted, that when the subject is treated humbly.
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