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MURDER Child-Murder
We cannot have a more satisfactory proof than in the Crime of Murder, it is the
spread by it on the in lowly?, the Community if not the top of a subject member that is & predictably ought to be regarded,
as a position x that receives? a proof than which nothing can be more satisfactory
than by the viewing each of x two? circumstances separately of calamity apart, concerning? the conduct of the
Law to each when x singly. By analyzing resolving the components [from] into it's two constituent
forces, we shall & beholding each exist itself apart separately, we shall see discover without
illusion to which of them the conjunct affect is principally owing.
In Accidental Staging, + +Or take Chance medley as a man con exceptionable instance — but then here is a nominal? Jennislaent vis: Forfertim tho' not really? exacted: so that the contrast is not so strong. then than Case the Case of a subject to the state is the same
as it is Murder. Yet for this there is no Punishment at all. Why? because it
carries no Terror with it. For no inference arises from the first slaying, at any
future slaying by the same person; nor by any other person from the impunity
of the first.
In the crime of sending Anonymous Threatening Letters, then the mischief is
Terror & nothing else. Yet this is punished x, with as good reason, as it
seems, as Robbery & even Burglary, and with better of than Larceny & many other Crimes
I never met with a complaint of it's being too severe.
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The Political Sanction here is x x not in added to the reception? to the x but comes in habituation? victim of it - If the woman is discovered & not put to death by x of the Law, she will live a in x. If she is discovered & put to death — she will not live in shame — If she is not discovered she will neither be put to death, nor live in shame.
Thus we see the Crime of Child-Murder, as it is called, is a crime totally distinct
from Murder, in it's consequences as in the motive which gives it birth is its origin. It's
past perpetration gives no apprehension affects no instance of any future of persons who entertain apprehension,
or for whom apprehension is entertained. Why? because it does not x
from either of these motives which sobriety I carried into effect in the way of
Murder, gives causes of apprehension. It originates not from either Avarice or Hatred
it originates from the inevitable? impulse of self-preservation, obey'd at the expen
of one being which does not feel the cost.
As in spite of all Punishments it is a crime that must be frequently committed
(as frequently nearly I should suppose as if it had none) & the Punishment therefore must
be perpetually invented, it is one of those cases when the mischief of the Penalty is x x
greater than the mischief of the Crime; & is therefore a proper subject only of ind???
Legislation. [only.]
HOMICIDE - of Infants
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