Substance of a Speech on Transportation, Delivered in the House of Lords on the 19th of May, 1840B. Fellowes, 1840 - 119 pages |
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Substance of a Speech on Transportation, Delivered in the House of Lords Richard Whately (Abp. of Dublin. No preview available - 2020 |
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Page 17 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant ; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation ; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Page 95 - These, and many other instances, to which it would be long now to refer (but they were upon his notes of evidence in cases tried before him), had brought him to the conclusion that there is an overwhelming defect of religious principle in this colony. If he was wrong in this conclusion, his reasoning upon it would fail, the Jury would judge of this; but if he were correct, then it was a state of things which warranted him in calling upon them by all the means in their power to improve it. He could...
Page 60 - Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire.
Page 96 - ... men were, and what they had been ; placed under the guardianship of a convict overseer ; that they left their huts in any number, armed or unarmed, as they pleased ; in short, from the evidence he had upon his notes respecting the conduct of the...
Page 19 - I question much, however, whether many English labourers live better than our convict servant here, whose weekly ration consists of a sufficiency of flour to make four quartern loaves at least; of seven pounds of beef; two ounces of tea, one pound of sugar, and two ounces of tobacco, with the occasional substitution of two or three quarts of milk daily for the tea and sugar allowance.
Page 95 - These persons, and one Campbell and the deceased Kerr, lived near Liverpool, and kept an unlicensed still, and a house to which the gangs of prisoners in their neighbourhood resorted for drink, and they were cattle-stealers (it was no slander to call them such, since they have been convicted of it).
Page 95 - ... a false charge of felony set up against the principal witness. In another case, as many as ten or eleven persons had successively abused the person of a woman ; of course consent in such a case was impossible to be presumed ; but what must be the state of moral degradation of those persons who could consecutively follow one another in the commission of such an act. These, and many other instances, to which it would be long now to refer (but they were upon his notes of evidence in cases tried...
Page 95 - Kerr, and his deposition after his death was given in evidence in this Court in favour of the same prisoner, when Cowan was subsequently tried before one of the other Judges on that charge, and was the main ground of his acquittal. The conclusions to be drawn from such a case are manifest ; and the Judge stated, that he was sorry to say, and those who heard him could bear him out in what he said, that this was not the only case which had recently been before the Court, in which there was the strongest...
Page 94 - ... in motion towards the several courts of justice ; and the most painful reflection of all must be, that so many capital sentences and the execution of them have not had the effect of preventing crime by way of example.
Page 93 - He had requested a return to be made out by the chief clerk of the court, of all the capital convictions that had taken place during the last three years, and he thought, when he stated the number to them, they would feel he was fully justified in the course of observations he was about to make :