1Benjamin Austin to Thomas Jefferson, 19 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Convinced that in your retirement, the concerns of your country arrest your attention, & as the most efficacious mode for the punishment of Criminals , has excited the consideration of many important States in the Union, I am induced to enclose a paper containing some remarks on this subject. Being sensible they are “not free from objections,” I more readily Submit them to your candid...