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with intemperance. Abolish ntemperance, then,
and you abolish capital punishment-you strike
from your calendars almost every crime. Hang
a temperance man have no sympathy with
the feeling which impels me to witness the last
agonies of fellow-creature. But the execution
OF temperance man | would almost wish to
see it myself-it would be such curiosity -
Hang !, temperance man, indeed, when you can
catch him worthy of hanging! Will not our le-
gisators consider the matter? this best and safest
mode of abolshing capital punishment? Other
mechanics are forming themselves into societies
for this mode of abolishment, and why not the
makers of the laws?


In conclusion, cannot but look forward with
pleasure to the period when all these efforts shall
have been crowned with complete success. I'm
agine an agent, then, visiting the United States,
sent by some foreign monarch, to observe our prI-
son discipline to collect our criminal statistics.
On his return, imagine that monarch enquiring as
to the results of his tour, and the probable mag
nitude of the forthcoming report, and then the re-
ply: "Tell me to speak of the virtues of the
United States, and | will pile volume upon vol
ume. A few pages will comprise the statistics OF
their crimes. | saw antique buildings In most OF
the counties, which the older inhabitants said they
believed were prisons once. They ale schools
and academies now. They have made bonfire
OF their rum, ana Wltn Ine smoke nave passed.
away their crimeS."@


"What no drunkards-ao deirsum trenens
there ~


None. once thought had found case of
the latter was passing cottage by night
A man, evidently excited, and making violent
gesticulations, entered Cries and uproar from the
family within, brought me to the door. The man
was the last of the race Of temperate drinkers in
the town. He had long withstood the entreaties
of his family and neighbors. That night he had
signed the pledge There was no delirium tre-
mems there; but there was tremendous deArlum
of JOY - Temperance Recorder.