\ ours with respect,

Jackson, Miss. july 29th. 1945
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Genttcm en:-The last mail brought me
your letter of the ID inst. and as Won are
entitled to my opinions on the subiec / 10
which 1t refers, give them without hesita
tlon. lnterrogatories of similar charac
ter have been propounded 10 me before, and
expect to be questioned still farther on
the same subject. To avoid the necessity of
making repeated answers, | have thought
proper To publish your letter in the Missis,
sipplan, and 10 reply 10 it through the same
medum. La the summer of 1843 [ pub
ished an address TO ''the people of MiSsis.
sippI" from which make the following
extract:


ct is worthy of the deepest consideration
by the people OF the State, whether there
might not be a saluIary roform in the peni-
tentlary system, AT present the labor Of
the convict is so employed as 10 come in d.
rect mpetition with large and meritori
Gus class of our citizens. Ii certainly ought
not to be the policy of the State SO 10
cheaper the price ofthe mechanics labor as
virtually TO drive them from their trades
Besides it cannot be Otherwise than revolt
ing TO the sensioility of honesG mechanics
to have from ten TO fifty convicts discharged
from the penitentiary annually. with the





rivals for employment II is calculated too
to bring discredit on that entire class ofour
population. since no one will be able to tell,
alter few years, whether d mechanic pre-
senting himself where he is unknown, has
learned his trade in the penitentiary, or as
an apprentice TO some honorable membe of
The trade. presume that no one thinks
that the penltentiary, is proper place 10
educate lawyers and doctors?


think this State ought at least to make
an experiment IN the manufacturing of
rope and cotton bagging from coarse cot
ton. with the view of converting the entire
labor of the convicts TO the fabrication OF
those articles. If the experiment succeeds, |
land there can be no doubt of it. )it will open
a new mark for our refuse cotton. and
save TO the Stale annually many thousand
.D..a,s, now paid away for bagging and
rope, ard at the same time be the means of
protecting a class of our citizens from
wrong md I'M ustIce. than whom there is
none more deserving Of public considera
too.


My inaugural address contained this par
agrapb


Industry should be encouraged. L4bor, +
when properly employed. may always be /
relied OH as a substantial source of national +
wealth. Whatever tends % divert the la I
boring man from his pursuit. or TO degrade
bis occupation. should never be persisted In
Repeated complaints have been made By
that convict labor In The peniten-
iary was 50 employed, as to conf ,t seri-
oasly with their pursuits, and 10 bring The
mechanic arts into disrepuie. Having at
al times an ANXIOUS desire 10 relieve the op
pressed. and 10 encourage such as are pur.
sung n honest livelihood, doabt no. the
immediate representatives. ol the people will
speedily inquire into the cause of these
ard apply such sanitary correc-
I'VE, as shall al uncc sasisfg the com2 plain
ants aid promote The public interest.