The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-03-03

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TO place them in position Of earning hoesst live
lihood and 70 recover possible their lest oharsster
In 70 the theory Of Mr. toehrass about capital
punishment the association not Issponabs for those
opinions. though large number NO doubt sympathss
with him that subject Other msmbsr. are opposed
have nothing to do with capital punishnsnt; was
melancholy fact that the efforts Of the association xsre
Ing Itself The arst branch Of rsprsssv: reform va:
through the Operations OF the church hsson vas a..
fore nscessry The second branch education BY the
State and the family In this connection the speaker
cd was detected in bringing her husband and the
time she concealed the bottle In her back Such
was the educstCn carried on In the family and was
Of the rich and wealthy the example was set the
poor In cut glass decantsss He also related =
the platform He yas worthy Of this indulgence BY his
and his crime III temperance, which brought de-
Siri1m scMcss, and sent him q mailman through the
streets The third branch Of repressye reform vas the
enforcement of the temperance principle. On late &C.
cason some ladies in the State Of New Jersey said to
the celebrated Neal Dove who had besn there agtang
the good cause that II he succeeded In his Efforts no
would break up their little Orphan Asylum Let the au-
dence pause consider the deep philosophy Of that
same, and that only abolished, there would BIO no
Feed Of orphan a.ylums or prison sssocia'ons aie
Blaokwes Island though perhaps not worse than
other He T Ten p,ooT there s0u wa, oas
bunk in cell thirty inches in width and long
In this Law two men one Of them with head in d.
recton and the other with his head n the opposite al
One Of these, perhaps, was thief for years, con
fined in the prison. and stepped in crime; the other
a younr bow He need not add another word to the
reading the report the female department Of the As
At the beginning of 1852 there thirty inmates Dur
ing tho year hundred and thirty six had been
ave sent TO the Magdalen Asylum two gone to house,
keeping to the almshouse one to Randala Island,
twelve found places for themselves thirty two left with
duct thty stl in the Home and fifty -four placed In fac
tories domestic service. Thus, many, had been re-
complains that the ladies did get their fair share Of
help from the public They appealed last year for .
their report they sadA building necessary such as
shall be adapted to the wants ef institution with IA
sss not only lot the shelter n ana ,n.'s rue.
to receive but for the performance OF various kinds Of
business in SO way IS conducs largely
that they were appeal in vani At the close Of
pert tho committee acknowledged anonymous donation
Mrs Gsxw then came forward and said-This is rest
less age and an unquet generation The time has gone
length dawned upon the world that men are no longer the
tools Of monarchs, to be used IS playthngs in their
but each man no. isssTsd as ana tho
the ameorson Of the human race In the present day
there is Of sturdy reformers who penetrate into
church and state, and ransaek all things. We cannot
this progress Let therefore be found assisting
and cooperating with it The object which this
the poor and the orphan has often been brought before
you II only Of recent date that the poor prisoner has
as an 81 % r IN. .oa %
poor criminal But it such sinners that Christ Jesus
came to The speaker then went on to show tho
cessity Of taking OF prisoners discharged from
prison. who exposed to all sorts Of because
the world kept aloof from them and despsed them
from falling into pollution II was sad fact that wo-
man. naturally kind shrunk from her erring sister, and
left her to herself lest she should be contaminated while
the other did not thus shun their fallen brethren
Woman 1t seemed could not touch pitch but she should
ds6ed Lid this arise from love OF virtue or shrink
shrink from men who committed crimes Of deeper dye,
but met them equal footing in the drawing room.
What mean theys That are not like ether people.
sinful and degraded II this BIO then would think
shat nothing necessary than to state tho
/ Of the poor outcasts for whom plead. Think
| you the wretched woman who comes out OF prison
obtain an honorable LIVELIHOOD Perhaps she may and
II she does, she has moral strength than the
jory Of those who think themselves ODD Christians
(Appauss) There one important reason why such
had claim their attention and that purely
OF se6sh nature. They had families, and daugh
II impossible to breathe such atmosphere without
pollution more or less any more than it was to come in
for no other reason they were called upon to reclaim
these outcasts or keep them from falling into greater
&rs aoar q Philadelphia. next addressed
The meeting She said she thought that 1t hardly
to cay any more There vas no want Of heart
lie behind things, and advert capital punishment.
these Il. ss sos
thought, she said when l with my ultraisms arose
however, in advertng to the cause, Of crime, he
suggested that legislative enacksnts among these
causes thought therefore, that was encouraged to
give my views Of of these causes and 1t may seem
strange that should be invited here this evening to
speak those principles OF "Down with all prisons"
fvnx,ut IN oil. fIo and 10 fho
PRISON to those o. that bound fey cali them H
penentares though they founded principles Of
revenge. and not upon the love Of God She con-
tended that reformers began at the wrong end Bread
ought to precede Christ fed the multitude with
gave them spiritual instruction. This what
wanted BY the poor, who were too long derauded OF
their labor They must not divorce religion from hu
manty, Lad en- too long done by the church. The
rich had conspired to make them richer and the
poor poorer by law They had also conspired to make
lwar upon negh6oring nation, aud committed murder
10y wholesale. What farce to hang individuals for
The crime here and there vixen the whole ale abomina
zion was sanctioned BY lawi them look the Fugi
hive Slave law and blush, 1t held up patriar
chs institute n-that by which deprived whole
sale Of his labor and woman deprived that belonged
10 her. The rumseler tolerated too by the laws and
this another great cauee Of crime But perhaps the
greatest Of all the crushing Of the nobility Of woman
The wonder not that there much crime, but
that there little Of it; the very existence of
being crushed out Of her the moment she Is married
(Great aughter This not merely her opinion for
Blackstone has laid it down in his Commentaries The
venerable old lady continued in strain Of fsrvor to ad
Focate the doctrines OF QuakersIn and made sarcastic
observations the various religious societies got up
They all began at the wrong end The nature OF holiness
WAS not yet begun to be understood. She noxt ad-
verted TO the delicate in which the licentious
of the had been touched upon by the speaker
who preceded herewith far more delicacy than she
could command. Yes, there revealing and drum
tenness, and chambering and wsntonness. But woman
WAS coming forward artist, and in other employ
ments she exercising her intellect that the quss
lion was whether the brain Of would not soon BE-
oome larger han mans is at present. Caughter) She
read in the papers that there strike at Baltimore
Tho ola Aofi nrav aUad IN nj
and the working dem and than they rocev
Ing She knew not what the free tariff paperthe Tbune
would say 10 this She liked th journal for Its radical
sendencics but she thought il ought to be more
dstent She wanted to see all nonopoes broken down,
,nd the wants OF the people suppcdhrst their physi
al wants. This the philosophy Of Jesus-arst to
ecd the hungry stomach She glad TO find that the
Of true education advancing and that schools
sere increasng-not charity schools, but republican
chobls for the rich and the together where they