The human aggressor being just so much worse t rute as his turpitude is rational.

It is said that some are so mentally deficient as to b o appreciate the distinctions between right and wrong. s found to be true, they should be perpetually shut up ppropriate employment compelled to support themselv Some criminals plead idiocy, and others allege n The former should be carefully restrained, and treated manity and tenderness. But both should be narrowly v For crime is conclusive evidence of a depraved and wicke f not so, why is it that fools and madmen are always do hings?

Why is it that they have to be watched, to be ke loing harm, and that they never do anything good? If a criminal is found really to be insane, and sufferin permanent alienation of mind, and not a transient al for trick and fraud, snap the tight shirt over his egs to a rack, shave his head, and deplete his fury. But if he is a cheat, and dares to come to his reaso or shoot him, or bolt him up for life. He cannot be tru

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If the crime be venal, or the offender be stupid, igno reckless, whip or imprison for the first offence; but if h corrigible, or the crime aggravated, upon a second con shoot or hang him, or shut him up for life, without rep pardon.

The wide world should be kept clear for the honest lustrious. Give them a fair chance to work and e necessary means of supply and subsistence for ther and those who cannot and will not work.

3. Upon conviction for fraud, battery, stealing, forge he defendant should be sentenced to heavy imprisonm Eo pay the injured party his just damages; and for all I violence to be publicly whipped. And why not? If beaten you, is it not fair that he should be beaten too? niary damages are rendered for pecuniary injuries and property and character; and why not corporeal punishm corporeal inflictions?

pert and adroit to mob and knock down. To fine or , or attempt to reform a skulking scoundrel who has robbed, and battered you, is a public invitation to ward and bully to steal, burn, and kill.

olish capital punishment, if there is a majority against fe; although it would seem to be absurd and mawkish a wilful and open robber, house-burner, or murderer. safety of persons and property is a priceless jewel, ould not be desecrated or despoiled; therefore, upon a onviction of every offence affecting the safety of either, reprieve or pardon, shut them up for life. The first may have been from accident, ignorance, or excitement; e excuses should not avail for a second perpetration. lic peace demands that such culprits should be held ted as its incorrigible enemies.

city, town, and county requiring protection from ers, should have an experienced, prudent, and resolute officer, to be called

"THE PEACE MARSHAL,"

ver to keep equipped and disciplined for active or conservice, an efficient military force, to patrol singly or by in disguise or in column, by day and night, all highblic places, and other localities; disperse unlawful or us gatherings; silence clamors; subdue turbulence and I arrest all disturbers of the peace and violators of the I deliver them over to the civil authorities. And as es may require to invest and scour all places, and with ut warning, as the emergency may demand, scatter, cut, ot down all mobs and riots by muskets, cannon, or dra

e officers are generally weak and timid; they may serve ocess, or commit persons after they are arrested and ; unarmed and singly, they never have been able to gainst, much less overcome, a mob, with bricks, stones, Their employment, or the requisition of soldiers, a leader, discipline, and permission to charge and fire ch savage and lawless opposition, is a farce. Nothing

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day that St. Michael's church and the market house burned, he would have ordered a clearing of the streets the whole district under strict military guard, and ther have been no riot, mob, conflagration, or murder.

The same course would have been adopted the ne before noon, round St. Augustine's church. A simil ceeding would have been taken a day sooner in Sou A like measure would have been employed early on the the Astor Place riot, in New York; and the result have been that the stores and dwellings of these 1 would have been closed for a few hours or days; but would have been sacrificed, no arsons perpetrated, encouragement would have been given for future rapi murder.

The sacrifice of property and life, and the humiliati cessions of the impotence and indisposition of authori public constraint, by these awful and degrading catas are a blot on the country, which can never be wiped Ages must pass before their encouraging and stimulatin ences will cease to excite and prick forward the outlaw murderer.

The value of the conflagrated property would have armed police for either city for fifty years; and the s down of ten thousand murdering ruffians, much less t and imprisonment of half a dozen, could not atone for of one innocent life.

At any cost-even if it be by the instant destruction o rioter, as if he were a ferocious wild beast-the public pe persons, property, and lives of society should be sacred served and protected; and all violence and rapine, the it rears its hydra head, should be crushed for ever in earth, without delay, compunction, compassion, or remo

CHAPTER XVI.

POLITICS.

-Cabals - Factions-Examples-Venality-Primary meetings-Politicians' ignorance-House of Representatives in 1849and Foote, in the Senate-Primary meetings-Elections-Good terred, &c.-Extracts.

ICAL pursuits have fascinated, misled, and ruined

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patriæ is the ostensible beginning of this captivating on; but it is soon lost amidst the mazes of faction. enuine spirit of patriotism is swallowed up in the exs of party strife, and gives way to passion for victory. factions are led and ruled by hungry cormorants for d plunder; and the loyal rank and file expend their money, and expose their health, characters, and lives, all the boisterous violence, intrigue, and corruptions ssive campaigns, to witness the translation of their aders into places of profit and power. This is the

vest ever cut by the political reapers.

nt of this cordon of orators, torch-lights, and revolufound the indomitable and imperturbable candidates

aid of this heroic band, that no one of them was ever o fight or sweat from heat, to shiver from cold, blush me, or look you in the eye.

are impervious to heat, cold, insult, and shame.

redominating trait in their character is a persevering, ng pursuit and cringing cowardice for office; they spair, but scent up, and howl out for prey, like hunes, till flesh is cast between their greedy jaws. Their ation, treachery, and total disregard of all faith put them footing of common blacklegs; and most of them are or openly professed and practical gamblers.

will spin yarn, weave tape, bribe, swear falsely, forge

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weakly; but desert reason altogether, as one does who his own to go into another country, whereof the laws, c and language are different. The design and centre of is to drive on such a project, and adhere to those who cute it. And therefore nothing must be allowed or arg with respect to these. Hence it is, that in vain you with them; for one may transubstantiate as soon as them; all that their friends say is unanswerable, and th temn and scorn what is said by their adversaries whe cannot answer it; there is no crime they dare not com the guilt seems but small when divided amongst s bearers; they warm themselves, by clubbing into a belief, and they vote themselves into a shadow of infal whilst they cry out against others as slaves to the gove they become really slaves to the faction, their live chains being seen by all except themselves. But th salary with which their bondage is to be rewarded is a from their friends, or it may be the mob, to whom n their appeal lies; and the getting into the governmen they will be abhorred for practicing everything they i decried, and so have that reputation for which they blasted by their own old arguments."-SIR GEORGE ENZIE, Essay on Reason, p. 441.

At every important election in the United States, a crimes are openly and publicly perpetrated, and neve cuted.

At every legislative session, bribery and corruption noonday. Presidents, governors, senators, and memb roll, are dined, supped, complimented with watches, a tended presents, and loans by each other and by can and participate in the most degrading reciprocations phantic servility, intrigue, and fraud.

No measure can be carried without in-door and secret and sordid stimulations. Members are hired a like brokers, to bargain and intrigue for the passage an of laws. The respectable members are always in the m