by
497
of enthusiasm which has but:
limited perception of - very consequences, and is accompanied
by little or no sense of proportion
To
no
co one is the thought-1 painful than to
more
than to myself that under the policy recommended
an innocent man
given up But I feel
may be
to torture and death.
on the other hand
that the same.
in an
possibility inappreciably less degree, is an unhappy insident
of
the
вс
of any practicable system, which admits of extradition at
all; and I have not the
slightest doubt that the only- alternatives to the policy proposed would increase indefinitely
the
crime, and consequently the terror and suffering, among
an enormous
population and
would thus add an incomparably.
larger quantity to the sum human misery.
37.
be
present system, and must
of
far then
from
So far
being justly open to this odious
but