...felons. The horrors of a prison were greatly aggravated by the unprecedented severity of Governor Horne, who gave strict charge to the jailors to treat them...subdued by sufferings, or changed by oppression." God did not grant him the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. His maxim was,...

...and weeks together !" " Closely confined, and treated like felons, — the jailors strictly charged to treat them with every mark of contumely, and admit...of their prison, to see them or converse with them" — such is Mr. Stowell's summary. But, as has been said, these descriptions apply less exactly to...

...and weeks together !" " Closely confined, and treated like felons, — the jailors strictly charged to treat them with every mark of contumely, and admit...of their prison, to see them or converse with them" — such is Mr. Stowell's summary. But, as has been said, these descriptions apply less exactly to...

...being, as Stowell tells us, closely confined and treated like felons, the jailors strictly charged to treat them with every mark of contumely, and admit...no person within the walls of their prison, to see or converse with them. From the Earl of Derby, to whom he had reported the proceedings of his subordinate,...