Capital Punishment

The following is from n reply of Joh Qmncv Adams lo an invilation to attenr an Anti-Capilal Punishmeiu meeting i Philadelphia: "Gladly wouKl I co-operate wilh nn Society whose object should be Jo proniot the abolition of every lorm, by whieh th lifo. of man can be voluntarily taken b his fellow-creature man. IHhere be an case whicli ín the interc urse of humn society, can possibly justify the act, it tliat sanctioned by the cornmunity for th punishment of enormous crimes. in the progress of the human mee to wards that improvcd condilion of tlirir e. istence to which our Religión tenchos ;i thatthey nre destined, the total abolitio of uil violent e.xtinciion of the lifeoi ma the will and act of his brother, is a mong the blessed promises of Futurit) S'lavery, Murder and Momicide i any furm, are êvils, I fondly hope, to dis appear hereafter from the annals of th human race upoh earth. Every step i this progress that can be made during th remnant of my own life, will be hailed b me with inexpressible delight : and altho the revocalion of that sentence of the A mightv, thal 'wh'oso sheddeth m'an's bloo by nïan shall his own blood be shed. would in my prayers to Meaven, be th last accomplishment of ihe perfectabilit, of man upon enrth, I wonld gladly contr bute lo it, even in advance of some othe forms of homicide more odious in t'hem selves, but, perhaps more dceply rootec in the infirmitici of man's nature. 1 do, therefore, heartily wish and pra) for the success of your efibrts to promol the abolition of Capital Punishment, anc if you can shope ihe lawsof the land to disclaimer of the right of Governmen itselfto (ake from any human being th life gronted him by his Creator, I wouk welcome it as the harbinger of a brighte day, when no indií-idual of the race o man shall losé his life by the act of another."' The Advertiser of Detroit contends for the Single District System; - wel!, let that be insisted on; and let ihe Press of the Staíe demand its ádopíion as the basis of our ïiew apportionment. The grand object, with all honest istoget into á Legislativa body the largest possible amount of the popular sentiment and opinión of every cast and characler. If a county contain some whigs, sónie democrats1, some liberty men, and these are so locally divided, that a Single District System woüíd bring the Representative body threc members; One of each óf these parties; let it bc so. h's the fair play if a right plan ; nnd it is a mere partizan and