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The title of this little book is destined either to appeal the eye or deeply interest the heart, for all who shall read these pages attentively, a good moral will come; yea, I fervently hope that much incalculable good may come of it, or else wherefore breathe we in a Christian land? With any other motive than that of benefiting men, and most of all, for the scourging and scathing of a most iniquitous, villainous system of inhumanity, that would more than match the bloodiest, darkest days of the Inquisition or the tragedies of the Bastille, I pen, publish, and scatter these lines.

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Every branch of science, art or mechanism -- every sect, religious and political, social and moral, seem to have their organs, oral or literary, through which each peculiar tenet or institution is advocated, and guarded against the powerful arms of wrong, oppression and fallacy, -- but who ever read or heard a disquisition on, or against Mad Houses, Insane Asylums. Such an apostle --