Excerpt from Remarks on the Hon. Edward Livingston's Introductory Report to His System of Penal Law, Prepared for the State of Louisiana Dear sir _i wished very much to have some conversation with you previous to my departure from new-dr leans, but was prevented by the business preparatory to my departure. Your address to the legislatureil containing strictures on my code, was sent to me by a friend very soon after its publication. I thought, on perusing it, that I had some reason to complain of the manner in which the author, as well as the work itself was treated, and my first impression was. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.