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are not their enemies, that their punishment is no than strict justice requires, and no greater than

 they can bear and that the peaceful walks oi social

 intercourse are still open before them, requiring only their reformation the conditions of acceptance.- Like men, they feel the difference there is between cruelty and kindness; they not only obey their keep with cheerulness, but they study please them in every thing. So strong is this principle now among

 hem that for several months past not instance of corporeal punishment has been known in the prison. An anecdote will exemplify this. An old and harden ed offender, who had suffered severely New Gate, who came to Weathersfeld mad againstthe whole hu- man race, and whose proud spirit the most pun ishment could not tame, was humbled and rendered obedient and dociIe by kindness He had caused much trouble to the overseers, by his frequent and daring attempts to escape; in one of which he very severely wounded bis hand. The wound was dressed by the surgeon, and he locked up in his cell At 12 o'clock the warden like the good Samaritan bearing wlne and oil, entered his cell. The wretched man, racked with pain, and his eyes swollen with rage, kindly addressed, the state of his hand inquired nto and relief offered. The features of his face relaxed

 started from his bloodshot eyes and he enqured what this treatment meant, when he expected nothing but cold irons and the lash. Mir. PiIsbury replied, " Because you are a fallen fellow creature like my self accountable to the same God, and going with me to the judgment and otherwo of like import. All the terrors of NewGate had not conquered him this did; and he has since been ranked among the most orderly and industrious in the prison. Mir. P. once asked how he could govern so many men, of the character which convicts bear, rendering them obedent, cheerful, and comparatively happy. He replied, holding up BIBLE, "I govern them with ths." Here is the secret of the excellence of our new prison, and its fruit is apparent A Rev gentle man belonging Weathersfied, assured us few days since, that in the judgment of charity, not less than 20 or 25 of these heretofore desperate characters have been, not only to duty by the kindness they receive but subdued in the temper ofeir hearts by the spirit ofthe gospel.

 For political motives, the men who have been the most instrumental in getting up this prson,-among whom is the Hon. Martin Wels,-have been traduced and vilifed in the most shameful manner, and even the agency Mir. w exerted in this business has been urged reason way he should be rejected from the councils of the state, and his name plotted out from the lists of his brethren. But if Mr. Wells can pon, to the Connecticut State Prison of the fruits o his official labors, he has monument his praise in the records of the State as impershabe as the hiIls one that shall speak well for him to posterity, when the names of his vile raducers are forgotten amidst the mouldering ruins of time.