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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been withdrawn when the system of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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