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Of what class too shall the new Supervisors be. Men of equal figure with the
former? Circumstances being so different none such may be found willing to accept
the office: or if there are, they may want time or exertion for the task. Shall they be
of inferior respectability. Here again the change is from better then to worse. What
a difference between the function of those new Commissioners and those of the former!
The former, after choosing the spot were to direct the establishment that was to be built
upon it. The new ones, when they have made their choice, have put an end to their own existence.
What an office for any one but some very particular connection of the proposer's to
undertake! What thanks or satisfaction can they hope for from their trouble? Short lived
instruments at any rate: tools as they may expect to be called if they yield to his choice,
exposed to his enmity if they resist it.

The difficulties which press against the necessary alternative, of vesting the choice in the
Proposer on one hand, or in the hands of third persons on the other, form a dilemma which
would have occasioned no small degree of embarrassment to the author of the Contract plan, had
a spot for it been as yet to choose. From these difficulties, whatever they may be he has however
all along had the satisfaction of looking upon it as absolutely freed, by the happy accident of a
choice already made for the same purpose, by authority perfectly competent and above all objection,
and under circumstances that take away all possible ground of imputation as well from the
Proposer on one hand as from Administration on the other. It was no choice of his, it was no
choice of their's: of the odium, of the blame, if there were any, not a particle would fall either
upon them or him.

Will the connection of his Penitentiary Plan with the original one, will his right to graft
the one upon the other be disputed? — He hopes not: surely not with justice. The object as far as
they both go, will not be disputed to be the same. Whatever that plan does, this does: to say
nothing of so much more which it does, and of which at that time there was no conception.
This is but a project: — certainly any more than every other measure till it is tried. This
it is true, is but a project: but what was the other more? Had the new plan fallen at all
short of the old one the identity would have been in so far questionable. But will it be
treated as doing less or nothing, when it does the whole and so much more? Will he be
denied the use of the old foundations, only for having given such enlargement to the Super-
structure? Will a track so much trodden in be departed from, and that only to encounter
difficulties?

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