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Show 54 I'OK TRAil'UilE OF SL.A VERY. tor Heaven's sake, and for the sake of their wives and children, and for my sake, let the wrath of justice and law be so managed, that their a11imal bodies shall not be tormented, in consequence of my exertions to arrest the progress of their outrageous and unpardonable conduct, equal to the scratch of a pin. Yet I cannot help charging that state jurisprudence, which permits the easy repetition of the crimes of which they have been go1ilty, with being exceedingly defective. It seems to me, that where there is no work-house in a state, such persons should be limited under sufficient securities and penalties, to their own farms, or some prescribed boundaries ;-and, in case they transgress these, to be declared to be outlawed, and liable to be estimated and treated no other than as wolves and tygers, to which they have already assimilated themselves of their own accord." Governor Miller, of North-Carolina, says in his speech alrtady alluded to, "The principle will be conceded, that th<:. end of punishment is the prevention of crimes." Lacerations and mutilations of the human frame, exasperate its occupant in tbe highest degree, and are very likely to excite an obstinate perseverance in crimes, by way of rc .. taliation and spite. Imprisonment, with labor, if it does not reform the disturber of the public peace, by the opportunity of reflection and salutary instruction, it certainly re~ strains his career for a specific time, eflectually. The satisfaction of beholding the yellow man, and the black woman, with her two female infimts, (one of them having been bom but a short time previous to their release,) seated in the stage, under the care of one of th~ senators of the legislature of Delaware, who had attended the court as a witness in behalf of the woman; afforded me a rich reward for thus having performed an indispensable duty, which I owed to their Creator, to them as their neighbor, to the principles of our social and political system, and to myself. Soon after my arrival in the city of Philadelphia, I was presented with the followin~ letter:- POI.TllAITUli.E 01" 6L4V~lY• 55 RuPECTl!tD Fu&No, The Acting Committee of the " Pennsylvania Society, for the Abolition of Slavery, and for the Relief of Free Negroes unlawfully heltl in bondage," having been informed of thy being in this city, have directed me to present thee their thanks for thy benevolent exertions in the cause of the oppressed Africans-in having rescued several free persons of colour from slavery in the city of Washington. It gives me great pleasure to be the means of communicating their sentiments of thy philanthropic conduct. Thy assured Friend, THOMAS SHIPLEY, Secretary to the Acting Committee. Philadelphia, 7 mo. 5th, 18l(i. Da. JEsu ToaREY, JUN. [REPLY.] DBAR &a, Philadelphia, July 25th, 1816. The consciousness of having performed our duty, to our Great Omnipresent Parent, and to our fellow dependents on his bounty, is of itself a sufficient reward, to every one who estimates as he ought, the pleasure inseparable from acts of benevolence. The applause of practical friends of justice and humanity, cannot fail, however, of being additionally gratifying. Inform the Acting Comnlittee of the " Pennsylvania Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery," &c. that I have received with gratitude, and a due sense of its value, the flattering testimonial of their approbation of my conduct, which they have authorised you to present me. May God long preserve your lives, and bless the caus~ in which you have volunteered your labors. JESSE TORREY, J trx . THOMAS SHIPLEY, ~ Sec•.ry oiA.ctiQg Committee, &c. S |