We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute…

We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of successive ages, the just and wholesome law which declares that the sturdy felon shall be fed and clothed, and that the penniless debtor shall be left to die of starvation and nakedness. This is no fiction.

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Chapter 42.

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Can I view thee panting, lying
On thy stomach, without sighing;
Can I unmoved see thee dying
On a log
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On thy stomach, without sighing;
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