, should be put in that
position.

25. _Governor and Council memorialized by the prison S. S. teachers and
chaplain._ Sustaining the relation we did to the prison, we thought it
appropriate for us to set forth our views and desires to the Governor
and Council touching the appointment of the warden; not respecting who
should be appointed, but the principles to be secured. Hence, by a
committee, we drew up a paper to be laid before them, giving account of
the religious and educational privileges we had been laboring to secure
to the inmates for the purpose of throwing around them all the
influences possible for securing good order in the prison, and a
preparation, on their part, for going out reformed, and duly prepared to
act the part of good citizens, and also soliciting their honorable body,
that they would so recognize these arrangements and labors of ours, in
their contemplated appointment, that they should not be curtailed, but
permitted to go on, gathering around them such improved facilities as
might be devised from time to time, thus securing the best discipline in
the prison and the highest ends of imprisoning.

We were treated on the occasions with due respect, and permitted to
speak freely on the points as we judged best. Some of the gentlemen
responded in most commendatory terms at what we had been doing,
regarding the influence as highly salutary in regard to order and
general good in the prison.

26. _Prison funerals._ The methods of procedure at the interment of the
prisoners had been various, at times not very complimentary to a
professedly Christian people. But more recently the custom had obtained
of having prayer and remarks appropriate to the occasion, the men being
arranged in the prison yard, after which they were to retire to their
work. In this way we conducted our first funeral after my entrance. At
the next, we observed this form: Had all things ready when the men were
had eaten, say at twenty-five minutes past twelve, and then took them to
the chapel for the usual prayer and remarks, which ended, we conducted
them in file through the reception-room for leave-taking of their
lifeless comrade, the body being there laid out with some little taste,
and then they passed on to the shop. This method is chaste and
appropriate, hinders nothing about the shop labor, and manifests due
respect for the occasion.

The matter of funerals has ever been held as of great importance by all
civili