44 and the making of dub$ 9 (or skeleton keys) there
'• would not, in a year after my liberation, be a wealthy
• 4 store, in any sea port in America, bat what I had
" entered ; and J should make an instant fortune, by
" stripping them of their valuables." I believed the
tillian : — and felt firmly assured, that he would
crucify a nation, to serve his hellish, views .—Hi*
wishes were gratified with respect to the employ-
ment ; and perhaps his proficiency, in his new to*
cation, will be amply certified, in the course of a few
months, when his sentence shall have expired. I have
not the smallest doubt, but that the fellow will keep
his word ; and that society will have an opportunity
of thanking the Inspectors of the New-York State
Prison, for their kindness, in furnishing its walks,
with experienced rogues, and with pick-locks of
their own special making. The Inspectors, how-
ever, with a sagacity deserving of immortality, have
made the happy discovery, that " no great evil"
can result from the employment of the convicts, at
the making of locks, combs, ploughs, fee, for this
plain and extremely satisfactory reason, because of
44 the great diversity of employment" It will cer-
tainly afford every Shopman, as well as Housekeep-
er, a pleasure to know of this matchless discovery ;
because, he can now, quietly, roll himself up in his
blanket or his'sheet, and refresh himself, after the
toils of the day, without tbe fear of being aroused
by some desperate midnight plunderer, who has



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