The New Hampshire Gazette

We received the following, with a request to give it publication. We know nothing of the facts of the case; we do not pretend to uphold any one, in disturbing temperance meetings, yet we are unwilling to deny the young man the privilege of stating wherein he deems himself to have been wronged. The case certainly appears to have been hard for him.

INHUMAN.

After a recent temperance meeting, a young man (the undersigned,) was convicted of throwing a stone at one of the speakers, and fined something like ten dollars; being poor and friendless and unable to pay the fine, he was committed to the county jail. During his confinement, his mother sickened and died; after her decease, one of his relations, poor like himself spent nearly half of a day to get his release to see his deceased mother for the last time, and to follow her remains to the grave; but all that could be allowed him was to see his mother in company of an officer, and then remanded back to his dreary abode. Now, is there a savage tribe on the earth, that would be guilty of such inhumanity? No! our laws are not intended so much to punish as to reform, and if there is anything that will reform the profligate, reclaim the vicious, and fortify good resolutions or prevent man from taking God's name on his thoughtless and angry tongue, it is to see the last remains of his aged mother deposited in the grave.

JOHN RINALDI.