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I have no hesitation my mind, and I have
in plasing my opinion on record that a very important public safeguard had
been withdrawn when the system of
branding ceased to be adopted.
consult my
5. Stad I only to rron judgment the stringency of the mealuri now under discussion would
have been very much increased. For my own part I would prefer to se every criminal who had shewn
an inveterate habit of crime, branded
in some conspicuous place, and-
deported
the Colony. from
only objection I have heard urged against this treatment; viz:- that it deprives
The
the branded man
from his locus
penitentie ought to have little weight
of
the class which supplies the bulk
our criminal population. Nothing is
better established than the
fast
that
by far the greater numbers of these pursul crime as a profession. Senderness of any sort shes to these semi brutalized beings is not only misplaced, but is construed by them into a sign of weakness, inducing them to resume their courses. upon their release with more audacity
the locus than before. The theory of penitentie would I think be spudily
dispelled by a glance at a
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