Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1852-07-03

IWeaincafely fsgfet tbGt sanJ une q =
Lesseesb d. DIE Penitehtiary should. ba
s6 far fnnistcbonstfued our remarks on 1
discipline in alae Penitentiary, u veg, as
Attack upon. their " personal character
In our education, we were taught nev
to make an attack upon the personal /,
ifisate character Of any gentleman wi
whom we have Ind no, transactioh, III
Of wliomsve5 knew nothing through u
we have eldeayoted 10 follow this up. an
as we had az The time Of ir'eniling gut \
marks, no sacli transactioassor knowlede
with Or of tie sLessesss We certainly ID
not iiutend' such an h,tuck..',s2s qa,r,a .g IN n
49,. Our attention Inns been called to otll
Majority report or the standing committe
on the Penitentiary, made gid February
1862, as a full relptation TO- tbe reports o
cruel treatment in the Penitentiary, ali
we have been requested 70 publish q
much of that report az relates to the die
cipline in the Penitentiary ; this has beer
sakel ass All DC. Of justice 10 the Lessees
ever willing to do fll justice, aud wi,hou'
in any manner acknowledging that "
have ever been unfair III our remarks ol
the Peniteptiary, we give the paragraph
referred to. m go s@7e . W. f7F8a
Tie members OF this House doubtless
have, as we'll as your Committee, heard
various reports and complaints against the
Lessees, and officers, and the management
OF the affairs of tho Psnitentiary, aud the
treatment Of the cot1vfcts. 4 -
We have, examined into these reports,
and complaints, with all miiiuteness, and
strict iinpaftiality, and we have failed 70
detect anything wrong ;--nor has any
charge or complaint been 'substantiated|
before your Committee, though witnesses
have been examined under OATH. We,
confess that when we commenced our in1
v~cstigations we had been prepared byl
floating reports aud accusations to expect
10, ftld IN .ttie management Of the afhirs|
of the Penitentiary many and rgriess,
Gus wrongs ; but our scrutiny and exam
nations lave failed TO- elicit Que proof to|
sul,stanliale the many reports and corn
paints, and Suspicious, atld surtriises, sol
often uttered as facts, ia loose converse.
tions, vanished when they were sought To-
be sustained under the solemn sanction ofI
an oath" e@l85iA
Now with these reports we expressly and
positively stated we had t%otting TO ,do.--I
Our attack was not against tthe Lessees,
or'any one Of them, but against the whole
Penitentiary system; ; against the unwisei
bsrbaric, and, impoltic recommendation
Of the,very report to which our attention
has l,etn called, aud from which the ex-
tract Is made, and above all the gross vic.
lationI Of decency, perpetrated in the cruel
treatment of the convict Henry Summers.
which we considered and still consider q
gross outrage upon the community aud an
I'm waffented aud unnecessary exercise
and abuse OF u questionable power: against
alt Of these we have made an attack, and
we shall continue that attack, stand or fall
who may. ba Ss
~ We should consider onrself recreant in
ouf doty to the public and %ourself, were
we to falter in exposing such palpable
and wrong, fearless Of consequence.
TO oufself or others. we shall never be
guilty of such iecreancy.
Those who know us, we will do ~ourselG
The justice to say, know that we do not
attack through ipue,idoes, whether called
upon to commend or to censure, we are
open, candid, aud frank. Had we
any cause to be personal in our attack
the present Penitentiary system,
should do it openly, aud in a manner
SO explicit that nothing would have to be
that is IL our limited knowledgeF
The english language could make 1t SO.
So far ms the Lessees are concerned. wei |
no cause for such an attack. Our
acquaintance is only with one Of
hem, aud that of this weeks date; id
vas of snch a nature, as to impress us with
he belief that they are gentlemen. whose
arther and better acquaintance we could
este, and we trust that our future inter. ,,
onrse may be az amicable as the past has :
cen: distant. Whether we shall have .
ause g, be personal with otAers concern. !
d III the government, and direction of the \
.'eniaentiary must depend upon them. y
I,ga yslsi : Y~ai4iazat sfsesAa3 e :
; When we said that "neither the fear
{ DULLES or a monied monopoly could ]
as from ON purpose to expose cru. ,
ty and wrong, We meant precisely what
ie said, We did o mean that the les.
ses: in their personal o.. private character /.
ere a monied monopoly. An individual D
ad falsely accused us Of misrepreseming l.
i'm, and in a bullying manner declined r !.
Wing US any explanation as t. how we !,
adj misrepresented him. and warned us e
,at he would not sallow us to misrepre- n
snt him. From the whole tenor or his 70
nd he simpressedrus with the belief that N
; thought he could bully US from our ba
MY to the publicssa a m
Some Of our friends, speaking with Us s s.
,on the subject, expressed fears thar In
,nrse we Were orn6sifT0 a powerful mo I