The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1844-09-12
= Tram Ne New York Evening PUsl.
GOV. DORIS PRISON CELL

N1fh 1r0AsAe0 AsAOO~N
Certain particulars of the ilarisSumert Of Governor
Berf have Just come 10 6ar ears which %e could not
hear without shudde4g We learn that he is the only
persou IN the State Of Rhode Island actually suffering
solitary confinement Othefs have beens senteneed to
solitary confinement bat the effects OF its influence was
in many Instances, 10 cause insanity The gentleman
from whom we have this statement viSisd The Rhode
Island PeniteniaFy about two years since, and heard
one oeiheseunhappy inaniacs believing and shouting
necessarily while the sound rolled through the granite
vaults ahdspassages with reverberaions which were
horrible The nhumanity Of absolute solitude in their
Imprisonment manifest that the execution Of her
sentence was relaxed and the prisoners since thatme
have been allowed to come together during Of
labor in courtyard of the prison.
From this indulgencesGosa Dor only, whose offense
is merely political is debarred. There is murderer
in the Penitsniiay Whase name is Ball who was SEN
for ripping open the bowels OF his wife,
but whose Sentencehas been commuted 10 perpetual i'm
prisonmen This man OF blood comes into the court
and abdsin company with the rest while the political
oendsrSa man most vrtuous and blameleSs in private
life, lis kept closely shut up in his cell
Thscell is about twelve feet in width bysixeen in
lsug With granite walls and Aocrs lighted from above
by awihdow, through which the inmate can behold The
Syle the prisonerso o Chon but no other object oi
the outward wori Nor are his eyes permitted TO look
upon the face ot fellow creature. In the small hand
door through which his fooc passed, is hole about
the size of pea, where person outside applying his
eye may the whole interior of the prison and every
thing passing there, while itHs so coniriVsd that the
prisoner cannot approach. it ffen within Ewe may
believe what we have heard he is not allowed to receive
any intelligence Of what spassng without but is guar
ded with hthe same perpetual mystery and reserve as the
prisoners of state indhe dungeons Of Venice or Spie
burg. In answer to question which he lately put tc
The warden, as 10 whether any thing was going or
which related to him or his case, the warden replied
tkat he was not allowed TO answer.
Such arethe particulars whiehare related toAdS and
il they are in any degree exaggerated or Inaccurate
(which we are sorry to say not very likely 10 be the
CASEY we shall be happy, for the honor OF hu-
mainly TO Correct them. Meantime, we cannot help
contrasting the bGrbaruas severity Of the punishment
which one Of the States 81 this Tepubic, fIee and hu
,naIe as it calls itself, infics for political ofense
with the penalties which monarchica government pro
nounce uponhose who convicted OF the same class
Of transgressons. InEnsiand, OCennell, louha gull
tyoFueason lives in elegant apartments, enjoys the So
ciey Of his friends and communicates at pleasure with
the outer, world We remember, when few years
since we visited the grim old fortress Of Volteira in
Tuscany, an absolute government, we saw several
yonng Tpscans who had been condemned for treason
against the State fhey walking together at large
on the terrace, which commanded view Of vast coun
try boundedto the west by the Mediterranean, out OF
which we're seen rising at distance the mountain tops
of Sardinia. ThesASzere OF cheerful aspect bowed
politely to the aduant who conducted u.s. and had IN
sruments Of music in their hands.
We feel that we need add nolhing-no word OF the
many epihes of condemnation which rise in our minds
tnrnark our condemnation of the babary OF which we
have spoken disgEacefa aseto our country andto the
times in which we live.