s anything of a prison, let him
say what he will. Then why select one spot, the chapel on the Sabbath,
as a place where the sight of a woman is to be branded as a most
polluting sin, and no objection raised to her being seen elsewhere
almost daily and hourly? Consistency is a jewel.

If the sight of a woman is so demoralizing to a man confined in prison,
how demoralized must he speedily become on leaving and meeting them
everywhere! And what sinners prison managers in numerous other States
have become through admitting women to moral labors in their
institutions! What egregious sinning on the part of that State which
employs a woman as chaplain of its prison, and she permitted to go
freely from cell to cell in her ministrations of mercy!

In the army, in hospitals, or whatever place men are found needy and
dependent, true women are freely admitted as ministering angels, with no
thought of demoralization. Yes, the world lauds the heroism and devotion
of many of these in poetry and song.

So far as I could learn, the influence of the women in the chapel did
not produce the effect alleged. I inquired of some on this point, at the
time of their leaving, and solicited the real truth. Take the answer of
an intelligent young man, one whom I have no doubt is sincere and
reliable,--"The influence on my feelings were not in a wrong direction,
but wholly to the contrary. I should have been ashamed of myself at
indulging an impure thought towards that lady under whose care I was so
long in the Sabbath school. I rather felt humbled and filled with
gratitude, that she should condescend to take me, a poor, wicked
prisoner, not able to read or write, and labor so patiently and
persistently to help me to what I now am, redeemed, I trust, and made a
different man, largely through her labors. They were her words of hope
and assurance which first stimulated me with the idea of an earnest
effort to rise from what I was."

The fact is, some men have their passions and will think, whether seeing
any of the other sex or not; and more or less are inclined to deeds of
wrong. But, in the opinion of our best minds, the true course to pursue
is, to admit judicious ladies, those of character and influence, to help
in labors of reform.

"Motives of safety required the cell clearing." This was the pretended
reason, but could not have been the real one, according to the warden's
own words. One day, in passing along the cells with company, he
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