1James Madison to Thomas J. Wharton, 5 May 1828 (Madison Papers)
I recd. in due time your favor of accompanied by the Report on the Penal Code &c I am sorry that I have not been permitted by other engagements to give to the whole, the careful perusal, which I infer from a very deficient one that it well merits. My attention was most attracted to what relates to the penitentiary discipline, as a substitute for the cruel inflictions so disgraceful to penal...