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Alms House ambitious of future ANNUAL REPORT ANTHONY LAMB appears apprenticeship April attends church attends Sabbath School bad company Board of Managers character child City of New-York Col'd Colored Boys Colored Girls committed Compound Rules conduct County crime DAVID TERRY DEAR SIR disease duties expired feel Female friends future respectability GALEN CARTER give my love happy honest and industrious hope House of Refuge improved in education Indenturing Committee inform inmates Institution instruction ISRAEL RUSSELL JOHN JUVENILE DELINQUENTS kind labor Legislature LEUPP live MAHLON DAY March Matron months moral mother number of children parents past pleased read easy lessons read in books received REFORMATION OF JUVENILE remain respectfully ROBERT KELLY S. S. WOOD scrofula sent September Society STEPHEN ALLEN Sunday School Superintendent Teacher tion trade UNDERHILL visited Vulgar Fractions WALTER UNDERHILL White Boys White Girls whole number write young
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Page 20 - Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him, let him know that he which converteth a sinner from the error of his ways shall save a soul from death, and hide a multitude of sins.
Page 58 - ... place the said children committed to their care, during the minority of such children, at such employments, and cause them to be instructed in such branches of useful knowledge, as shall be suitable to their years and capacities...
Page 46 - The right of parental control is a natural but not an unalienable one. It is not excepted by the Declaration of Rights out of the subjects of ordinary legislation ; and it consequently remains subject to the ordinary legislative power ', which, if wantonly or inconveniently used, would soon be constitutionally restricted) but the competency of which, as the government is constituted, cannot lie doubted.
Page 12 - I think I may say, that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education.
Page 46 - As to abridgment of indefeasible rights by confinement of the person, it is no more than what is borne, to a greater or less extent, in every school ; and we know of no natural right to exemption from restraints which conduce to an infant's welfare. Nor is there a doubt of the propriety of their application in the particular instance. The infant has been snatched from a course which must have ended in confirmed depravity . and not only is the restraint of her person lawful, but it would be an act...
Page 46 - The House of Refuge is not a prison, but a school. Where reformation, and not punishment, is the end, it may indeed be used as a prison for juvenile convicts who would else be committed to a common gaol; and in respect to these, the constitutionality of the act which incorporated it, stands clear of controversy.
Page 46 - The object of the charity is reformation, by training its inmates to industry; by imbuing their minds with principles of morality and religion; by furnishing them with means to earn a living; and, above all, by separating them from the corrupting influence of improper associates. To this end may not the natural parents, when unequal to the task of education, or unworthy of it, be superseded by the parens patriae, or common guardian of the community?
Page 47 - I again take my pen to write you a few lines to let you know that I am well...
Page 46 - It is to be remembered that the public has a paramount interest in the virtue and knowledge of its members, and that, of strict right, the business of education belongs to it. That parents are...