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n The Nep- York Ec0ngeliSt of last week says
The venerable John Quincy Adams has recently
written letter IN faror of Capital Punishment for
the crime of murder The letter alluded 10 is that
addressed by Mr.. Adams 10 the late Anti Capital
Punishment Convention at Philadelphia. '.Somc
persons and journals" says the Evangelist, 'have
published the letter and commented upon it. as if
were agcinst the penalty of DEATH out We do not


take il in this light although possibly the writer of
1T himself may have intended that ii should be SO
construed Indeed and the Editor Of the
Evangelist afraid it would spoil his commentary if
he gave his readers chance 10 see the letter in
question Perhaps we ought rot 10 wonder, how
ever. that man who has so long exercised his in
genuity 10 find in the New Testament warrant for
breaking human neoks should have sharpened his
Intellectual iacul,ies by the process be able
find support for the gaslows in composition which
so inexperienced writer as John Quincy Adams
may possibly have intended should receive d.
reesly opposite construction Alas for those simple
souls who can ind neither in ,ba, letter nor in their
pio'es any justification for judicial man killing -


now important that all who are .hus bcnighed


should follow in the wake Of some critical lumnarv,


In the efaigsnce OF whose light they NAV be ena.


without difficulty see wha, is no, 10 be seen