Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-07-31
PUNISHMENT OF CRIMES.

The following remarks on the intermnable dis
cussions of the subject of imprisonment and pun
ishment of crimes are from the London Times:
The greater the variety of speakers the extensive
the information the longer the official experience the
vigorous the mind and the lucid the order and style
the evident became the result that this very hopeless
matter The only consolation that which may possibly
arise from the universal character of the problem Our fellow
sufferers and fellow nqurers the civilized people of all
ages and cmes The military code and its permanent
development into feudasm the knot very easily by treat
all breakers of the law with wild and summary
geance if they enemies in the field. Christianity has
struggled with imperfect against this PROCLAMATION
of justice. 1t has taught the sacredness of human life the
worth of single SOUL the preference of reformation to pun
ishment, and other ideas, which, after many centuries,
now at last beginning to be acknowledged. But the
civilized the humane, the tender become, the
greater difficulty The delcacy of moral percep
tons rewarded with indefinite increase Of embarass
As the late Home Secretary showed in his remarkable
speech OF Thursday night there of dealing
with offenders which is not becoming almost impossible sim
ply because the feelings of the country will endure it,
The most inevitable result-nay the fact Of the punish
men when in its full proportions, shocking
Illustrate the purposes of JUSTICE and procure sympathy and
even immunity for the offender.
''To this fastidousness there must be limits. Pun
shmen is burden that must be bone ony by The Of
fender but also by that other party the question,
tey without share in the guilt society ITSELF We have
right complain if the punishments inflicted by the State
recoil with disastrous effect upon the comfort the credit the
natey the State does punish with hands spary
answeabe for the crme 1t might have prevented
it might have done than il has DONE The law may be
righteous the Legislature vrtuous the Judge without peu
dice favor. Yet cannot be assumed without ridiculous
degree OF presumption that the aggregate operation and
fuence Of society sound and pure clear it bame
Society," then, has right to complain of the difficulty
rather the mpossibty of Furnishing without painful
injurious reaction upon ITSELF The parent expect
punish and have done with him There have been re-
cent TO elicit the Of magistrates,
IN which appeared that parents sought the imprisonment
transportation Of their children simply be rid of them This
was arocious But the State, the universal parent and
cety the national BROTHERHOOD commit the and in
decency when they expect be easily rid of offenders and
spared further Inconvenience from their crimes Crime
easily eaced That decree which makests consequences
eternal may also admonh that in this OF being
they shall not be shortved We cannot take the depaved
portion OF society and bury in WELL surround ii with
walls put ii into cage, and think about it. will
still live to plague and TO We mistake, therefore,
our own true position and grossly ater relations the
offender, when, his sentence pronounced claim
Immunity from further dsquetude his account Some
form OF annoyance must still expect"