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Excerpt from Speech of His Excellency Levi Lincoln: Before the Two Branches of the Legislature in Convention, June 2, 1828
The admonitions of the past, and with the arrange ments for the future, such disappointments as have been heretofore suffered, whether in the pecuniary results of the employment of the convicts, or in the moral effects of penitentiary discipline, will not re cur, to be the occasion of further distrust in the cor rective power of the Institution, or a tax upon the Treasury of the State. Yet the entire benefit of the change may not, at once, be realized. Until the completion of the new Prison, which under the strenuous exertions of the Warden, is rapidly car ried forward, the pernicious influences of a corrup ting intercourse are not to be prevented. The sol itary cell alone, can withdraw the depraved offender from a hardening correspondence with kindred vice, and by cutting off the sources of extraneous excite ment, leave his mind to the occupation of reflection, to the reprovings of an awakened conscience, and to the successful application of means for his refer mation and moral improvement.
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