An Account of the State Prison Or Penitentiary House, in the City of New-York (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from An Account of the State Prison or Penitentiary House, in the City of New-York

While civilization and refinement were chang ing the condition and manners of focial life, the criminal codes of the nations of Europe retained £1 vindiaive and fanguinary fpirit, the growth' of a rude and barbarous age. Benevolent and virtuous men have and deplored the evils produced ahd per petiiate'd by unequal and cruel punilhments; but the mild voice of reafon arid humanity reached net the thrones of princes or the halls of legifla-i' tors. While the state. 'was agg randized by con i. Enriched by Commerce, or ornamented by'

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