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It is asked, do you contend that we ought never to surrender accused criminals to the Chinese? I answer without hesitation, Never.
Why are accused persons surrendered to foreign governments? Do they serve the ends of justice? But how are those ends served when torture is used as an instrument of investigation? Torture fails to extort a confession from a culprit strong enough to withstand its pain, but it is sure to bring from a man who is not strong enough to withstand it, the arrival of a ... which he is ... to a crime ... quiltless. To deliver him to such a trial is strictly to devote him to horrible suffering which, whether his physical forces of endurance or mental fortitude, a further ... to certain punishment, be he guilty or innocent, if he has not been endowed with ...