Skip to main content

John I.D. Bristol to Davis, September 10, 1871

Page 3

Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Advertisement, Page 1 | Advertisement, Page 2 | Newspaper clipping | "War, Ruin, and Reconstruction"

Bristol to Davis, page 3

of the faculty of Destruct-

iveness; and in capital

punishment we at once

recognise one of the great-

est means in the whole

world for perverting the

faculties of Destructive-

ness, not only of those

who go miles to see

men hanged, but of

the whole reading nation.

Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Advertisement, Page 1 | Advertisement, Page 2 | Newspaper clipping | "War, Ruin, and Reconstruction"

John I.D. Bristol to Davis, September 10, 1871, Records of Edmund Jackson Davis, Texas Office of the Governor, Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.



Page last modified: March 30, 2011