. History of Pike and Dubois Counties, Indiana. ties of the State, too much attention can-not be bestowed to the encouragement and promotion of everymoral virtue, and to the enactment of laws calculated to restrainthe vicious, and prescribe punishment for every crime commensu-rate with its enormity. In measuring, however, to each crime itsadequate punishment, it will be well to recollect that the certaintyof punishment has generally the surest effect to prevent crime;while punishments unnecessarily severe too often produce the ac-quittal of the guilty and disappoint one of the greatest objects
. History of Pike and Dubois Counties, Indiana. ties of the State, too much attention can-not be bestowed to the encouragement and promotion of everymoral virtue, and to the enactment of laws calculated to restrainthe vicious, and prescribe punishment for every crime commensu-rate with its enormity. In measuring, however, to each crime itsadequate punishment, it will be well to recollect that the certaintyof punishment has generally the surest effect to prevent crime;while punishments unnecessarily severe too often produce the ac-quittal of the guilty and disappoint one of the greatest objects oflegislation and good government. * * * The dissemination ofuseful knowledge will be indispensably necessary aa a support tomorals and as a restraint to vice; and on this subject it will onlybe necessary to direct your attention to the plan of education asprescribed by the constitution. * ?* * I recommend to yourconsideration the propriety of providing by law, to prevent moreeffectually any unlawful attempts to seize and carry into bondage. UPKNING AN INDIANA iJUiiEsT. HISTORY OF INDIANA 125 persons of color legally entitled to their freedom; and at the sametime, as far as practicable, to prevent those who rightfully owe ser-vice to the citizeps of any other State or Territory from seekingwithin the limits of this State a refuge from the possession of theirlawful owners. Such a measure will tend to secure those who arefree from any unlawful attempts (to enslave them) and secures therights of the citizens of the other States and Territories as far asought reasonably to be expected. This session of the Legislature elected James Noble and WallerTaylor to the Senate of the United States; Robert A. New waselected Secretary of State; W. H. Lilley, Auditor of State; andDaniel C. Lane, Treasurer of State. The session adjourned Janu-ary 3, 1817. As the history of the State of Indiana from this time forward isbest given by topics, we will proceed to give them in the chronolog-ical orde
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