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THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH.-The North Ame
rcan Review for January contains an article on this
subject in which the writer endcavors prove, lst.
That Capital Punishment has not prevented Muir
der; I'd l, has never been equal; Sd. 1t
has failed to punish the Murderer or to relieve the
friends of the murdered 4h 1t fails protect Society
5,h. I, has done irrevocabe wrong 9th. 1t has been
abolished will safety aud advantage. The arguments
to eustan these propositions says the Boston Courier
(for we have not seen the artcle) are


illustrated by many undoubted facts-some of them
of astounding character; aud the whole article
earnest appeal in behalf of the abolition OF pun
shment of death 1t probably brought out at this
particular in order TO operate upon Legislators
and awmakere who in several States besides our own
or will be In few days. in session, and engaged IN
making new laws, or in modifying abrogatlng old
ones Al any it 10 be appropriate to the sea
SON. and will doubtless receive attention from those or
whom it intended The writer does NOT positively
DENY that society has right to take life, II such pun
shment be essential TO its existence but he denies that
its right 10 life rests upon any positive command OF
God or any sure permission. He denies that It hnos
the least favor in the precepts of Christ the spirit OF
Christianity He denies that the penalty Is uslned
by any experience OF ts usefulness or proof OF It's me-
csssy and he throws the burden OF proof Tor each OF
these points on the advocates of the present law Inc
proof of divine command permission, lies IN sun
PIE passage Whose sheddeth mans blood. by man
shall mis- blood be shed and his criticisms on the hs
brew text pretty clearly that the proofs not made
out" d,


The writer of the article is understood 10 be Rev. E.
E. HALL Of Providence, of the ablest men in the
Unitarian denomination. The appearance oi such an ar
ticle in the North American Review we accept as an
omen OF the speedy downfall of the GaIows. II will
thus reach the minds of the deepest thinkers the age
of whom hitherto indifferent this great Reform OF our
Criminal Code we hope may be awakened to a sense
of its importance and effort in its behalf We
hope the article will be issued separately pamphlet
and obtain q wide circulation.