Lesley.] ^g^ [November 6. 



tions," &c., rend the report, which he had written ; and his admi- 

 rable style is manifest throughout. His interest in this and 

 various other plans to extol and strengthen the colonization 

 scheme, was inspired hy a genuine anti-slavery sentiment, and 

 never lost its zeal. lie Avas elected Vice-president of the State 

 Society in 1863, only eight months before he died. 



Mr. Foulke became a member of the Philadelphia Societ}'^ for 

 Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons in July, 1845. In 

 the following November he appears as one of the Acting Com- 

 mittee ; and in May, 1846, as one of the visiting Committee for 

 the Eastern Penitentiar3\ From that time he was indefati- 

 gable in his attention to his assumed duties. He studied the 

 subject of Prison Discipline profoundly. He allowed no state- 

 ment for or against the peculiar Pennsylvania plan of Separation 

 to escape him. He examined into the results obtained at Peni- 

 tentiaries conducted under other kinds of discipline. He assist- 

 ed his friend Haviland, the Architect, in devising improved 

 ground plans, elevations and arrangements for new gaols. In 

 all that he wrote on the subject, and it was not a little, one must 

 respect the well studied statements of a thorough bred law3^er, 

 the well balanced judgments of an unprejudiced investigator, 

 and the ardor of a benevolent heart. 



Most of his papers on this subject were published in the 

 Journal on Prison Discipline and Philanthropy, a quarterly 

 journal of ninety-six pages, two numbers of which had appeared 

 when he was appointed, April, 1845, its editor. He edited four 

 numbers and then resigned, because of other duties. These 

 papers afterwards appeared as separate pamphlets, to be distribu- 

 ted to those who felt an interest in the cause. 



In March, 1846, he presented for adoption b}' the Acting Com- 

 mittee a memorial to the Legislature asking for the passage of a 

 law to seciire accurate returns of facts from all the county jails, 

 to serve as a basis for a full Annual Keport of Criminal Statis- 

 tics. In the autumn of that year he made an extensive tour in 

 Pennsylvania and Maryland, to visit county prisons, and pub- 

 lished a report of their discipline and condition, which attracted 

 general attention, and produced some needful legislation in the 

 right direction, but not until after voluminous correspondence, 

 and his personal exertions at Harrisburg. Nothing but that 

 tact which characterised him in all his undertakings could have 



