The prisoners' hidden life, or, Insane asylums unveiled : as demonstrated by the report of the Investigating committee of the legislature of Illinois, together with Mrs. Packard's coadjutors' testimony

/I E> RAR.YOF THEUNIVERSITYOF ILLINOISHISTORICALTHEORInsane Unveiled:AsylumsAS DEMONSTRATED BY THEof the Committee of theReport Investigatingoflegislature Illinois,WITHTOGETHERBYMRS. E. P. W. PACKARD."Ye shallknow the truth."CHICAGO:PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR.A. B. Printer' 139CASK, Monroe St1868.3op.to act of A.Intend according Congress D., 1868, byMRS. E. P. W. PACKAEB,Illinois.Dist Court for the Northern Hist, ofID the Clerkl offioe of thePreface.The of human is the evillegalized usurpation rights greatour social fabric. From this centerunderlying corrupt springthe evils of our social This has culmin-system. corruptionated in the Insane of the nineteenth LetAsylums century.the Government but remove this cause of and theinsanity,*would beneed of such Institutions lessened.greatlyo-So as the mothers of thelong enlightened present dayownare to assert and defend their sim-obliged identity,because the Government fails to so will theirdoit, longQ plybear the seeds of unbalanced which'*7 offspring organization,. waits for" circumstances to intoonly develop insanity.-jjjIt is one of the writer in her narrative to theobject givingto fasten the this as theworld, public eye upon evil, greatcause of the of thegerminating insanity present age.The evil of our Insane liesfj great present Asylum System'in that is there treated as a insteadthe fact, crime,insanitya is indeed a act ofof which^ misfortune, gross injustice.our Government ...