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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ...good part of society, is anything but judgment, mercy and justice to the wicked, and the good. The former, who, after a just trial, by a jury of twelve men of judgment and justice have been condemned to an imprisonment for six or twelve months, say two or three times, as the case may be, and are found irreclaimably bad and dangerous to themselves and society, should be put to an easy death. Job. Hi. 17--19. There (in the grave) the wicked (thieves and murderers) cease from troubling (the honest and good) and ffiere (in the grave) the weary (of life) be at rest (from the sorrows and troubles of it; instead of being tormented in prison and flogged into goodness, till they are goaded to madness, and their nerves and sinews of war for the battle of life, destroyed with the cat and bastinado). There (in the grave) the prisoners rest together--they hear not the voice ofthe oppressor (gaoler) the small and the great (ones of the earth) are there, and the servant (or slave) is free from his (tyrannical) master (a merciful death is better than a cruel life). See in the press, cotemporary with the conference at Paris, on Syria;--the revolt of the convicts at Chatham; and in the Times March 18, the awful flogging of little children by order of the brutal magistrates. Mark X. 16--24. John xiii. 32, 33, 34. The Anderson slave case in Parliament. The election and inauguration of President Lincoln, March 4th. The secession of the Southern Slave States, from the United States of North America. The resurrection (of Poland, from the Holy Alliance of 1815, Rev. vii. 1, 2, 3, 9, 17.) On my own base (commencing at Warsaw, Nov. 29, on the anniversary of the revolution 1830--1) with singing the new (Cottle patriotic and religious) ...

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