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1 Punishment of Death: The Rational Argument 1 (1849)

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     LPUNISHMENT OF DEATH.


 THE RATIONAL ARGUMENT;

            REPRINTED BY PERMISSION,
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                 OF JUL Y, 1849,
   WITH    EMENDATIONS      BY   THE   AUTHOR.


   1. Debate in the House of Commons, May 1, 1849.
   2. Punishment of Death--the Statistical Argument. Re-
printed from ' The.Eclectic Review,' August, 1848. London:
C. Gilpin.
  3. It is not lawfulfor us to put any Man to Death. By the
Rev. GEORGE HEATON, M.A., Assistant Chaplain to the County
Prisons of Gloucester. London: C. Gilpin.
  4. The Sacredness of Life and the Doom of JMurder. By
THOMAS HILL LOWE, M.A., Dean of Exeter.
  5. The Law Magazine. May, 1849. London: Benning.

THE night of the 1st of May, 1849, witnessed one of the
greatest triumphs yet achieved in the British Parliament
for the cause of humanity and good government. Not a
noisy triumph; not a success announced by sound of
trumpet and beat of drum; but a solid, substantial, influ-
ential, moral victory, calling gladness into the hearts of
good men, and forming a rallying point for the philanthro-
pist and the Christian wherever they exist.
  On the evening named, Mr. Ewart, to whom the cause
of criminal reform and general progress owes a large and
lasting debt of gratitude, introduced before the House of
Commons his annual motion for the total repeal of the
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