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appearance, and the sincere gratitude they manifested.
The following record stands in the Register: ‘M. S. called at my house, and spent an hour with me. He is a member of the Society of Methodists, and I really believe he is a reformed man. It is now more than four years and a half since he was released from Sing Sing; and his conduct has ever since been unexceptionable.’
Another young man, whom I will call Hans Overton, was the son of very respectable parents, but unfortunately he formed acquaintance with unprincipled men when he was too young and inexperienced to be a judge of character.
Being corrupted by their influence, he forged a check on a bank in Albany.
He was detected, and sentenced to the State Prison for two years. When he was released, at twenty-two years of age, he did the best he could to efface the blot on his reputation.
But after having obtained respectable employment, he was discharged because his employer was told he had been in prison.
He procured another situation, and the same thing again occurred.
He began to think there was no use in trying to redeem his lost character.
In this discouraged state of mind, he applied to the Prison Association for assistance.
Inquiries were made of the two gentlemen in whose employ he had been more than a year.
They said they had found him capable, industrious, and faithful; and their distrust
Boston, J. P. Jewett and Company; Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor and Worthington; London; Low and Company, 1854.
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