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of which they are the advocates would in the long run be
much cheaper to the country: but I did not gather that these
reformers were opposed to meeting some of the more vi-
olent forms of illness with the cat-of- nine-tails, or with
death; for they saw no so effectual way of checking them;
they would therefore both flog and hang, but they would
do so pitifully.
I have perhaps dwelt too long upon opinions which can
have no possible bearing upon our own, but I have not said
the tenth part of what these would-be reformers urged upon
me. I feel, however, that I have sufficiently trespassed upon
the attention of the reader.

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