The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1845-10-02

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II - fArner aad mccAnie
Al snsae dissared - raFt, may say
- ! ronssei vii noi err So PC year.
70 sash wOald say. saPPase soale sasA.ii
lanassslar lnoking ie4ioa uas = - yon.
80 rou Ean'a charge him farhaand and
washiar n uaoailssl Nnn would pT0ha-
rs say go = wear. Now suppose he
uasld wsrk fzislfally On your farm, Cor
i2 maaahs. y0s. instead d charging hlm
go far bsaFj. &r., would likely think Al
nghl Ia Jay him some 20 OF hnndHed
dailsFs loE his years work.
Il appears fnom the sueeessiEe mes-
SAG 1 Governors cOrWin and Shannon
10 the Ohio Legislature. hat the income
of their Peniienliary. after paving OF all
expenses. amounts annually on an average.
u ahont $4,000. Some one may say
tLis proves nothing; Tor there tiiey have
maHe eoExiSts Lhan We should have. That
assy be Irne: But VIII not our eohVieis
Weld a propOf,iOnahle income; Tor il four
men Jointly earn four hundred dollars a
yesT AZ labor. will not two earn half the
sum. shall conclude this head for %
say mnrh more would imply a doubt al
the common sense Of North car0linians;
suffice il 10 saw. thai II viii he admitted by
all - self evident that stout hardy and
steady criminal can earn more At conlInu-
al hard labor, Than at continual idleness.
Ts every candid unbiased mind-Open
10 eanyicton-inient on hearing reason
and acting right-have | not established
the fact. that the Penitenliary system will
more eiTecmally suppress crime and have
sgreaieI tendency to reform criminals, and
hat too q: . less expense, Than the bloody
code OF criminal laws that now disgrace
the pages Of our Statute BOOK.
As weeds spring up spontaneously in
an uEeultivated soil, so DO vice and crime
in an uneuliiyaled mind; as ignorance .s a
twin-sister Of vice, so is intelligence twin
sister Of virtue: why then should We not
apply the nett proceeds Of the Peniien;ia-
~ system to the cultivation of the mind
-,o the diffusion of knowledge. On this
subject our late Governor ip bis last mes
sage particularly and forcibiy remarks,
"lt is believed that the adoption Of the Pc
nitentiary system would be good econo-
my: the profits arising from the la5or of
criminals would exceed the expenses Of
carrying the criminal laws into execution;
and it woul be an admirable system 10
apply the proceeds arising from the punish-
ment and conviction of vice and idleness to
&he Common Schoolfund to aid in the moral
and intellectual cultivation of our Youth.
Ii would be rearing the beautiful and deli
cate flower of virtue out Of the Ietid hot
bed of vice." What sentiment ever COM
bined more Of the beautiful and the useful
than this! II is worthy of being engraved
in monumental! marble; aud more worthy
of being cherished up in the hearts ofeye-
~ citizen,
The Penitentiary system being superior
to our present criminal code as remedial
and preventive of crime, and also more
economical, is there any reason why it
SHOULD not be adoptedl il is wholly of
American origin. After the Revolution
freedom Of thought and opinion were tole-
rated, public investigation was left free and
unshackled,-the barharous and blood
stained code Of European despotism could
no longer Withstand the mighty march of
mind in land of freedom; mind grappIed
freely with mind--and in the great moral
conflict for the principles of justice, and
the Moderation and elevation of mankind,
was aroused The spirit of Franklin,
Rush, Schuyler, Bradford, and I.own-
ldes, in behalfof bleeding humanity. From
these ornaments Of our species and bene-
factors of mankind, emanaled the Peniten-
tlary system. Ii is not a relict ofthe bloody
code OF monarchs, nor of the more bloody
maniiestoes of religious orrather fanaticai
superstition and inquisitorial bigotry, that
delpged Europe in blood, but truly an
American system. Why shall not North
CarlinIans as part Of the great American
family adoptii! Why should we discard
q child--blood of our blood-bone of our
bone, and press 10 our bosom this horrid
code of Observation-Disclosures in the
blood of the auto-da-fe-w which imbibed its
spirit, and inhaled ITS first breath amidst
the fire and the laggot--which was adopt
ed, caressed, and fostered, as favorite
banding by Europeon despots Why
did she permit her fair bosom to be desc
Grated by a spouse Of such irightiul mien!
Let it be forever removed from the fair
,fama of our commonwealth, before her
virtue is prostituted and her tender name
dishonored!!! TWAS a saying worthy TO
be written in letters of gold, by a great man
now no more, that we should become more
Americanized. Well let MS adopt the Pc
nitentiary system which is an American
offspring, and extend to it the nurturing
care of foster rlother, we win then have
a system Of punishment suppressing crime,
and reforming offenders, indigenous to our
soil, moral and humane in its character,
and perfectly consonant to enlightened
and American feelings. ADAIR.
THE LETTERS OF "S0UHTERNER,"