Page:Wanderings in India, and Other Sketches of Life in Hindostan.djvu/429

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TANTIA TOPEE. 415

and their end is not regarded as an example for the prevention of evil; but so long as they are living, and suffering what to them is far worse than death, the case is otherwise. Be it known, however, that I am not an advocate for the abolition of capital punish- ment in this country for the crime of murder. The gallows, udiciously used, is, in my humble judgment, a very wholesome terror.

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