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the trial
my
Arle
object
was, so at the
li
final in perisition before the lovernor in Commeil it will be, that justice shall be
done,
but if
if justice
shmed re
require the
mi the
Ancrifice of the lives of these unfortunate
Criminals I dan not onemura
onemurage
Excitiincy any Expectation
Mind of Your Excellency
that favor
Can
be shewn them by
Reaso
of their birth - place, for our law recognizes
no distinction between Civilized
Savage,
Asiatic and
Contrary every man,
and
Europian, but on the
who by his misdeeds
has brought himself within the Co
Cognizance
of that law must, so
far forth
Lo
that
the
distinction is concerned, undergo
punishment which has been prescribed.
Your Excellency has in the
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concluding portion of your letter made Some observations with respect to the effect-
to follow
of Capital punishment. You much Kindly Excuse me if I decline to
into what is undoubtedly a difficult
you
question,
engages
and one which at this moment
the attention of some of the most
illustrious individuals in Imope, and
w this reason that when
a man is
Convicted of such a crime as
pirney
and Murder in a bout which derives ito
Authority
Judge
the British brown the
is not at liberty to exercise his discrition but has
pass upon
Death...
no allunative but to such Convict a sentence of
That no portion however of
Excellency's Communication Your Excellency's
may