I will keep my mind open to the last.

But--I should like to say--it would not be any easier to me to throw myself into an agitation for reprieve because this man was tempted to crime by _my_ property--on _my_ land.

I should think it right to look at it altogether from the public point of view.

The satisfaction of my own private compunctions--of my own private feelings--is not what I ought to regard.

My own share in the circumstances, in the conditions which made such an act possible does indeed concern me deeply.