The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1846-02-05
Fron the GseensbOrOugh Patriot.
SHALL WE HAVE \ rENgTENTIAR'

SHALL WE HAVE \ PEN!TENTLARfl
An Act Of the las' Legislature requires
the respective Sheriff. al North Carolina,
10 open poll a, oGr next Angus elrc'inr,
Cor The ffetm men Of lie State TO decide this
question. E'ery person entitled 10 vie
inr member ii Tie House OF Commcns.
will he al lberly 10 vote CT or sg"n,I q
Peniteu,iary. The sahe Arttrqunes the
Governor &c thI- SIs'e TO ubIain such
statistical information a. lie my be able
10 prurGIe IRON tie Governors Of The
seversI S aIes IN which P'ntsnt'srits are
now established, and Cause tie sane to
be published, pre-, ions TO tie election.
When this rrprH shall be published. il
vii no doubt ASSET tGe voters e The ) ae
in coning IN a couecI conclusion in re-
gard to tie PeuifnIisIy SysWm, and is
therefore looked for with s"Ine interest.
In sdssace of this report. | wish 10 Of.
fer a few plan, practical hints touching
the subject, for the peIussl Of your resd-
ers. Aud slIbough | may not rival in
philosophical reasoning or 2ersplrnsty oil
siylr, Mr. "SylssnUs," whose FIRST Of =
series Of Nos. appeared ia your last pa
per. copied from the Rsle'eh Register.
vel il l can add any thing towards ava.
kening an interest on The subject. aud In.
dice olher more competent persons en-
terlsiniug similar views with mys.li IL
regard 10 The establlshm-nl Of a PenIteH-
uary, to take up the subject and give Il
that u orough investigation which lts in
porlsnce demands, my main object sllI
hsSe been attained.
! believe the people Of North Csrnl,ns
are more 10th In give W. old established
customs than pe.hap. thn'e Of any Other
Sale ~ The Uuinn. We have no suhdrr
changes in the political character If III,
State; such changes are graduaI--slmos
imperceptible. In our agricultural pur
suits, We follow, generation after genera
ion, tie same routine IL our fathers he
fnre u. Our iathers cut down and clesr
ed up iust as much woods during tn
> winter Is they could. in order that the,
might have plenty Of fresh land to I'LL =
.ummer, with .ery lii lie elfurtto imp'ov
I. aud keep good that which was airead
cleared; we do pretty much lie sam
i ting. The mnnomsnia f"r some'hin
r new IN religion has never taken posses
u sion Of our people. A MillerIle or
Mormon would hardy flourish on N"rt
Cs'oIlus soil. As people, our old e,
n Ilablished rules aud regulations, both i
+, Church and SiaIe, are almost as unchang'
Y able as those of the Meaes and Persian
q THIS poliry, al,hough il has caused US
/. some respects to be behind the age
T. which We live in Improvements OF var
, Gus kinds. and 10 have the ute Of %
l. r p Van Wrinkle" applied 10 Us, i, HI
It also preserved "a fram the difficulties al
lie entertainments under which many nf u
70 other States labor. II our lfl-a-ione Pc
Is icy has not developed the resources
d the Sis,e so fully as might be desued,
h has kept US out Of debt.
Is But in making The radical change
u our criminal tDie WHICH "huib bb bttC
e tary. should The Penitentiary system
e adopted. we ere not making leap IN Il
~ datk-we are not trying some new ex1
a. rIDent. that may or may not succee
= Other States have tired il, and we =;
e have the benefit of their experience.
the adoption Of such system. A lar
portion OF our sister States have TIED q
IS system. IL any Of them have sbaud'
:. ed sfrer once adopting II, Am not ava
=. of the fact. Tue presumption is. that
al PenueDtisry is curse lnSead OF
N blessing TO State. the people OF tho
le States tha, have so long lred them, wou
2, have be- Ell Sufficiently keen To have ma
n The discovery aud /, have abolished 4
isys,em. 1t is not often that you hear L