Report of the Select Committee On the House of Refuge 1852
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Many are sent to our prisons, and there associate with the old and hardened convict, and soon learning the mysteries of a life of infamy, from those whose years are steeped in guilt; they become the murderers and burglars of our land- or if perchance their tender age awake a sympathy in the minds of fi jur}-; or, as is often the case, the suf- ferer by their depredations, through a false charity, interpf)ses be- tween the offender and the law, in hope of a future reformation, they are permitted... to go unpunished, and the designs of the law be thwarted; we in a few years are called upon to record the feats of the daring robber, and the successful efforts of the midnio-ht incendiary. States, like individuals, are responsible in the eyes of God for their actions. It is the duty of the State to foster and encourai^e virtue, and to protect her offspring. Although the parent is en- joined by divine precept to ''train up a child in the way he should go," it is no less true that when the parental obligation is avoided by those in whose hands God has entrusted their offspring, the government should endeavor to reclaim the child from misery, rather than permit him to pursue a life of degradation, and eventually fill a felon's cell, or expiate an offence against her laws by an ignominious death.
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