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tion and "work-houses" are unequivocal in their 

 testimony as to the necessity, hence legitimacy, 

 of rendering due punishment to the guilty and 

 offending. No palliating circumstances can mit- 

 igate against this use of law. He may have 

 been intoxicated, he may have inherited a dis- 

 position to steal, he may have been thrown 

 into society, that, but too surely developed his 

 latent iniquity and lawlessness, yet the law holds 

 the offender guilty as a criminal. And this 

 disposition to bring the criminal to account can 

 never be criticised as unfeeling or unnatural. No 

 one can reasonably suppose that the penalty ex- 

 presses a disposition to hate the offender. Love 

 for rectitude, and the protection of the law-abid- 

 ing, may be the greatest necessity in the case. 

 Rev. John W. Haley, M. A., says " Tiie jailor, 

 as he locks the door of the dungeon, feels com- 

 passion for the prisoner, but may not interfere 

 with the course of justice, or endanger the wel- 

 fare of society, by suffering the culprit to escape. 

 We can easily see that leniency to the criminal 

 might prove the greatest cruelty to the innocent. 

 The judge, as he puts on the "black-cap," to 

 pronounce sentence of death upon a human be- 

 ing, is not infrequently moved to tears; still his 

 duty toward the public will not permit him to 

 let the murderer go free. There are other, and 

 far weightier, considerations than the mere emo- 



