Human vivisection : three short letters on juridical slaughter / by Henry Maccormac, M.D.

  • Henry MacCormac
Date:
[1876], [©1876]
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Credit: Human vivisection : three short letters on juridical slaughter / by Henry Maccormac, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    the young is responsible. I say it is disgraceful to us, disgraceful to the town of Belfast, that such a being should be reared among us. But, he is not the only Daly, and, moreover, multitudes of un- heeded, uncared for children are this moment, in Belfast, in preparation to become the Dalys of the future. All children, then, should be subjected to the most careful compulsory culture. And, meantime, I submit that Daly ought not to be put to death. II. Capital punishments, enacted by our savage an- cestors, along with some other dreadful things, are remnants of a barbarous age. The day will be sure to come when-they shall be looked upon with the abhorrence with which we now regard the bloody “ customs ” of Dahomey. You are not hanged, said a judge once to a condemned sheepstealer, in reply to his piteous remonstrance, for stealing sheep, but that sheep may not be stolen. The argument of this oracle in scarlet was invalid as it was heartless. Capital punishments do not deter. That they do not, let the dreadful rollcall of crime at the present time declare. The bloody code, however, is much miti- gated. We all remember the cases of Dodd and o Fontleroy. This very nineteenth century, a young woman, whose husband, her sole support, had been torn away by the pressgang, was hanged in open day, the milk running from the poor things breasts, and for what. Because the frenzied starving creature, babe in arms, had gone into a bakers shop, and, taking