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Leone, or West Coast of Africa, for the purpose of performing the labour 

 necessary for an experimental growth of cotton, sugar-cane, or other tropical 

 productions. As Friends we must not tolerate such a proposition, which 

 might cause criminals to live no longer than honest, virtuous men. Upon 

 the whole, the question may be safely left to competent statisticians, and 

 no doubt such an able man as Mr. Newmarch would settle the duration of 

 life to the thirty-ninth place of decimals, and would rather the globe itself 

 on which he lives should dissolve than allow a criminal to have no longer 

 a duration of life than an upright, honest working man. 



The Whipping Project. 



16. Not a few persons are to be found who commend whipping for 

 brutalized criminals ; and when a citizen has been severely maimed by a 

 person of this class, the evil passions of his neighbours naturally desire 

 to see the criminal well flogged. It is difficult to meet the argument ; but 

 if whipping is allowed, the Friends' trust must be in the doctor, who 

 should receive orders to discontinue the process the moment the pulse 

 rises one beat, or any emotion can be detected. The arguments against 

 whipping are very awkward to be applied, as flogging has proved to be an 

 admirable remedy against attacks upon her Majesty, or in cases of wanton 

 destruction of works of art. Nevertheless, thou hadst better ask those who 

 recommend its application, how far they would like the cat-o'-nine-tails 

 themselves ; and if they would dislike it, why apply it to the garrotter ? 



Conclusion. 



17. Those who read the arguments against hanging garrotters and 

 burglars must perceive that, although the reasons are strong, it will require 

 the greatest possible exertion to prevent the gallows from rearing again 

 its lofty head. London is nightly patrolled by garrotters ; England has 

 a nest of cruel, cowardly assassins, who terrify the peaceable and well- 

 disposed. Men and women have such an antipathy to robbery with 

 violence, that they instinctively desire to shoot their dastardly maimers, 

 or hand the man to a terrible justice. In this great emergency it behoves 

 all Quakers, and other thinking men, to bestir themselves vehemently, and 

 the more fear is exhibited by the public of being killed, robbed, or per- 

 manently maimed, the more will be our merit to protect the ill-doers. 

 When people are killed, or paralysed, or maimed by law-breakers, in the 

 eyes of mankind the robber is thought to be a great criminal ; and the 

 greater the criminal, the greater pet should we make of him. A vulgar 

 public will treat a felon, brutalized by every vice, and degraded by every 

 cruelty and passion, as they would a mad dog, or a venomous snake. A 

 thinking man, however, would supply him with every comfort, and give 

 him food, clothes, habitation, and luxuries, beyond the means of honest 

 working men. 



Friend, there is one thing, in conclusion, that I would have thee never 

 forget, and that is, when a burglar and garrotter is hung, he is never able 

 to rob or kill again, and others are deterred by his example. Remember, 

 when criminals cease, sentiment is done, and Quakerdom and cant must 

 fall. 



