To the Editor of the "New Zealand Spectator." Wellington, October 10, 1849.
Sib., — Your correspondent G. G. has taken a wrong first impression of the article in your con* temporary's paper, which converts the extreme penalty of the law suffered by the convict Rush into an admirable jest. Strangling by the hangman is now strongly opposed by many as a doubtful remedy for the evils it professes to cure. Its supporters allege that the example deters from crime. Their opponents affirm that it only affords a hardening spectacle to the idle, dissolute, and thoughtless, whose thefts, jokes, jibes, and jeers, are its invariable accompaniments. It was reserved for the learned Editor of the Wellington Independent to give the climax to their argument by shewing that even among educated men the exhibition has a hardening and debasing tendency, and for this he deserves the thanks of every friend to mercy, and doubter of the human right to slay. (How about the Otago Newsy I remain, Sir, Your obedient servant, O. .
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 438, 13 October 1849, Page 2
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169To the Editor of the "New Zealand Spectator." Wellington, October 10, 1849. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 438, 13 October 1849, Page 2
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