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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