158/297 But, what good disgracing and imprisoning a young man who has all along borne a fair character, is going to have, is more than I can tell. Blake won't be able to hold up his head among respectable people when his term has expired." "And will, in consequence, lose his power of injuring the honest and unsuspecting. He will be viewed in his own true light, and be cast off as unworthy by a community whose confidence he has most shamefully abused." "And so you will give an erring brother no chance for his life ?" "O yes. But it would not be kindness to wink at his errors and leave him free to continue in the practice of them, to his own and others' injury. |