remains an unsettled problem, except its future in the South, and here
and there in the North, where the expense of support has been met by
the earnings, show no inclination to adopt measures really leading up
to its eventual abolition as a means and measure in prison discipline.
“Convicts should be constantly employed in intelligent labor or work
having a beneficial object and result. We should all hope that common
humanity, which underlies all hearts, must some day agree upon a system
of labor for all ages and conditions, it has been considered a man’s
common heritage; the most helpful to his restoration to honesty and
virtue.