WELL SAID.
FROM ADDRESS OF REV. A. G. HAYGOOD, D.D.
But back of the courts there must be educational work. There must be among the people a better sense of essential righteousness. There must be a justice that will not and cannot sentence a poor wretch, who steals a coat or a piece of bacon for a longer term than the rich man who breaks a bank and robs a thousand people; that will not and cannot send a poor man without friends or money to prison for a longer term than a rich man with both money and friends who has committed the same offense; that will not and cannot send a Negro or a Chinaman to prison for a longer term than it will send a white man for the same offense. Among the people there needs to be developed a better conscience as to the sanctity of an oath, and the sacred majesty and divine authority of law that knows no conditions of society and no distinctions of race. With such a conscience paramount, even among the leaders of opinion, prison reform will be easy.