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Excerpt from The Christian Examiner and General Review, 1832, Vol. 12
N ow, were there no other Objection to this strange work Of condemnation, it would to us be sufficient, that it makes null and void, and brings into absolute contem t, nay, the most audacious defiance, one Of the most solemn ofp all earthly pro cedures. What is more tremendous than the sentence, con demning a fellow-mortal and a fellow-sinner to a speedy and dreadful death closing for ever his probation, and driving him to the bar of eternal justice to answer for Offences, which, even by this awful earthly retribution, may have been unexpiated! Yet in proportion to this fearful solemnity, which even no stranger can contemplate without being moved, is its absolute futility, and worse than futility, when it is known before hand, that, ih the vast majority Of cases, it is a mere fiction Of law, a form Of words, passed indiscriminately upon har dened r'obbers, who deserve any punishment short Of death, and upon boys and children, who scarcely know what is meant by crime.
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