Such are _some_ of the means by which THE PRISON DISCIPLINE SOCIETY contemplates the accomplishment of its object; and I disapprove of them _in toto_. All its views through these means are founded on _theory_, and this theory is opposed by a thousand _facts_. Universal experience attests the fact that nothing but _goodness_ will reform a sinner. Unfeeling and despotic inflictions will make the sufferer an enemy to his race, and in some instances, awe his sinful propensities into inaction, but these things will not--_cannot_ make him love either his God or his fellow beings. The process on which I have been dwelling, and which the Society would call sacred by asserting that neglect of or opposition to it is _guilt_, would make angels _men_, and men _devils_, and devils _worse_. I _know_ that future facts will justify this strong language. I am guided by no theory, but am taught by my own experience. In the course of these sketches, I have occasionally reflected on the conduct of the officers of prisons; and asserted that fit men to govern a prison in such a manner as to make it a penitentiary, cannot be found on earth. The labors of this Society have furnished the following corroborative facts.--SECOND REPORT, pages 7-8. "In the Maine Prison, which has been in operation only three years, Dr. ROSE, the superintendent, stated that three or four cases of malpractice had already occurred among the assistant keepers; such as intemperance, furnishing forbidden articles to convicts, &c., for which they had been discharged. In the New Hampshire Prison, Mr. PILLSBURY, the former superintendent, mentioned, as one of the greatest difficulties in the Penitentiary system, the insubordination occasioned by the frequent changes among the assistant keepers, and the difficulty of obtaining men of proper character for the compensation allowed them. Escapes have been effected in that Prison, either through the negligence or connivance of assistant keepers, and improper familiarity has been contracted between them and the convicts. In the Massachusetts Prison, a keeper was detected, three times in succession, by Mr. SOLEY, one of the Directors, in furnishing bills to be altered, and materials to alter them, to a convict. A warrant was issued for him; but he made his escape. Another keeper was discharged soon after, on suspicion of improper conduct; and in a communication, made by the Directors to the Governor, in the autumn of 1825, and by him submitted to the Legislature, several other cases are mentioned of malpractice by contractors and assistant keepers, and discharge for the same. In Newgate, the Old Prison in Granby, Conn., there has been great complaint on this ground.