58 AX AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND. 



establish some godly prisons for the next generation ? Surely 

 we may learn something from the statesmanship that is 

 wedded to a church. 



I heard a crusty old bachelor say the other day, growling 

 at the Free School Laws : &quot; But I have no children, and I 

 don t, want to pay for the schooling of my neighbour s brats ; 

 if they were begging for bread, it would be another thing.&quot; 

 The land of free trade has something to tell us about this too. 

 &quot;Nine out of twelve of the inmates of the Poor-houses of 

 Norfolk and Suffolk cannot write their names.&quot;* 



Never forget, citizens of the United States, that the chil 

 dren within a republic are, and must be, &quot; THE CHILDREN OF 

 THE REPUBLIC.&quot; Do your duty to them, or they will not do 

 their duty to you. 



To return to the Hereford jail: I intimated that every 

 thing said in admiration of it seemed necessarily ironical and 

 bitter ; but I do recall one pleasant, and, I doubt not, true 

 word, for it &quot; it is a palace compared with the old one&quot; 



Good ! surely that is good : no one will ask us to go 

 back to packing criminals, and all under surveillance of the 

 law, promiscuously into great stone pens, giving them rotten 

 straw to rest upon, and supplying only the cheapest grub that 

 will offer to keep body and soul together. Few will be in 

 clined to think that the world s prisons hell triumphant in 

 Austria and Naples excepted are not better now than in the 

 day of Howard. Progress there has been, even here, true and 

 substantial progress, thank God ! Progress there must be, for 

 the kingdom of God moves steadily on. This palace-prison is 

 &quot;but a mile-stone on the road. 



What next 1 ? There are some pamphlets before me in 

 which an answer to this question is attempted to be given.f 



* Von Kaumer. 



t &quot;The Principles of Punishment,&quot; by Captain Machonochie, E. N., 



