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Page xxxii
He showed the benefits which the convicts would derive from the kind and judicious care of persons of their own sex . The prison , he maintained , should be made a house of refuge , rather than a place of punishment , where its ...
He showed the benefits which the convicts would derive from the kind and judicious care of persons of their own sex . The prison , he maintained , should be made a house of refuge , rather than a place of punishment , where its ...
Page xlii
The press teemed with abuse of his person and measures . Meantime his political opponents , who had always professed to be more friendly to foreigners and catholics than the whigs , did not fail to take advantage of the popular jealousy ...
The press teemed with abuse of his person and measures . Meantime his political opponents , who had always professed to be more friendly to foreigners and catholics than the whigs , did not fail to take advantage of the popular jealousy ...
Page lix
Petitions for a commutation of punishment were signed by more than two thousand persons , of all parties and ranks . But closing his eyes to every considera tion but the claims of justice and the integrity of the law , and believing ...
Petitions for a commutation of punishment were signed by more than two thousand persons , of all parties and ranks . But closing his eyes to every considera tion but the claims of justice and the integrity of the law , and believing ...
Page lxii
Seward also procured the passage of an act by the legislature , allowing the benefit of a jury trial to persons claimed as fugitive slaves . He defended this right with his usual fervid eloquence , and it was mainly through his efforts ...
Seward also procured the passage of an act by the legislature , allowing the benefit of a jury trial to persons claimed as fugitive slaves . He defended this right with his usual fervid eloquence , and it was mainly through his efforts ...
Page lxiii
ernor to employ an agent for the aid of such persons , securing their restoration to liberty . It was under the provisions of this act , that H. B. Northrup , Esq . , of Washington county , N. Y. , in Jan. , 1853 , procured the liberty ...
ernor to employ an agent for the aid of such persons , securing their restoration to liberty . It was under the provisions of this act , that H. B. Northrup , Esq . , of Washington county , N. Y. , in Jan. , 1853 , procured the liberty ...
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