A FEW THOUGHTS SUGGESTED.
Is this Marshall Lunatic Asylum a slave depot to hold poor unfortunate men and women, and send them on to eternity without a moment's warning, prepared or not, and no one accountable? Money is the root of all evil. And these sins are sins of ignorance, not to be winked at.
Herod laid hold on John, and bound him and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, for naught but telling the truth.
And the king sent and beheaded John in the prison. And his head was given to the daughter of Herodias, who danced before the king and his guests on his birth-day. Is no one accountable for his death?
And John's disciples went and told Jesus.
And I often tell Jesus how attendants kill poor lunatics in Troy Lunatic Asylum.
And I have been and told Governor Dix, of New York State, how they bound and pounded me, without cause, and strangled me. I carried the accursed harness into the executive chamber, hoping that Governor Dix would protest against such treatment; and I still hope.
I have exhibited to Mayor Kemp, of Troy city, the accursed harness, and revealed to him the cruel treatment the lunatics undergo in Ida Hill Lunatic Asylum by the Cain family or their children.
I have told the president of the institution how badly I was treated when bound by Isabella, hoping to influence the government by setting before them the facts as I saw and realized them.
I have lectured privately and publicly with all long suffering upon the subject of asylum life; though it be sown in weakness it may be raised in strength to the good of poor sufferers and redound to the glory of God.