ON THE
PUNISHMENT OF DEATH.
While events so momentous to the welfare of Europe; while scenes, that excel all the imagination of an Asiatic ever painted to our minds, were passing daily before our sight, we might find excuses for not paying a minute attention to the wants of our domestic and internal policy. But now that all these stimulating scenes have passed—now that legitimate authority has been every where restored, and that on the wide surface of the earth no trace is left of all those convulsions which once seemed to threaten destruction to civilization and liberty, we should indeed be inexcusable, if, after having, with so much anxiety and perseverance, been intent on the interests of the world, we did not pay a little attention to the few dark spots of our own internal government. For though, without doubt, England is the nation the most fortunate in its domestic government; though, owing to the wisdom and continued perseverance of our ancestors in
