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JoRE QurNcY ADAMs-The following letter, was written by Hon. John Quincy Adams to a Committee of the Pennsylvania Society for the Ab. OlitiOn of Capital Punishment:

 Boston. 7th Nov, 1s46

 Eellow-citiZens :-I regret my inability from the state of my health, to attend the General Meeting of the Friends of the Abolition Of Capital Funish- ment to be held m your city on the Huh inst, to which am invited by your Circular of the 2sth ut.

 Gladly would I cooperate with any Society whose object should be to promote the abolition of every form, by which the life of man can be voun- tarisy taken by his fellow creature man If there be any which, in the intercourse of human SO. ciety. can possibly justify this act. it is that sanc- tioned by the community for the punishment of'e- normous crimes.

 In the progress of the human race towards that improved condition of their existence to which cur Religion teaches that they destined. the total abolition of all violent extinction of the lie ot man by the will and act of his brother. is among the blessed promises of Futurity. War, Slavary, Mur- der, and Homicide in any form, are evils fOndy hope to disappear hereafter. from the annals of the human race upon earth. Every step in this pro- gress that can be made during the remnant of my own life, will be hailed by me with inexpressible delight; and although the revocation of that sen- tence of the Almighty, that twhoso sheddeth mans blood, by man shall his own blood he shed would Tn my prayers to Heaven, be the last accomplish ment of the perfectabilitv of man upon earth, would gladly contribute to it, even in advance of some other forms of homicide more odious in them selves, but perhaps more deeply rooted in the in- hrnties of Mans nature, do, therefore, heartily wish and pray for the of efforts to pro- mote the abolition of Capital Punishment and if you can shape the laws of the land to disclaimer of the right of Government itself take from any human being the life granted him by his Creator I would welcome it as the harbingcr of brighter day. when individual of the race of man shall ev- CT lose his life by the act of another am, very respectfully, gentlemen, your friend and fellow cit izen.r JOHN o. ADAMS.