After that, C.R. frequently sent five or ten dollars to his mother, through the same channel, and paid her rent punctually.  He refunded all the money the Association had lent him, and made some small donations, in token of gratitude.  Having behaved in a very exemplary manner during four years and a half, Friend Hopper, at his earnest request, applied to the Governor to have all the rights of citizenship restored to him.  This was readily obtained by a full and candid statement of the case.  It is entered on the Record, with this remark:  “C.R. has experienced a wonderful change for the better since he first called upon us.  He said he should always remember the kindness that had been extended to him, and hoped he should never do anything to make us regret it.”

He afterward opened a store, with a partner, and up to this present time, is doing well, both in a moral and worldly point of view.  Five years and a half after he began to reform, Dr. Russ, of New-York, sent a discharged prisoner to him, in search of work.  He wrote in reply, as follows:  “I have obtained good employment for the bearer of your note; and it gives me much pleasure at my heart to do something for him that wishes to do well.  So leave him to me; and I trust you will be gratified to know the end of charity from a discharged convict.”  A week elapsed before the man could enter on his new employment; and C.R. paid his board during that time.

A person, whom I will call Michael Stanley, was sentenced to Sing Sing for two years; being convicted of grand larceny when he was about twenty-two years old.  When his term expired, he called upon the Prison Association, and obtained assistance in procuring employment.  He endeavored to establish a good character, and was so fortunate as to gain the affections of a very orderly, industrious young woman, whom he soon after married.  In his Register, Friend Hopper thus describes a visit to them, little more than a year after he was discharged from prison:  “I called yesterday to visit M.S.  He lives in the upper part of a brick house, nearly new.  His wife is a neat, likely-looking woman, and appears to be a nice housekeeper.  Everything about the premises indicates frugality, industry, and comfort.  They have plain, substantial furniture, and a good carpet on the floor.  Before their door is a grass-plot, and the margin of the fence is lined with a variety of plants in bloom.  He and his wife, and her mother, manifested much gratification at my visit.”

In little more than two years after he began to retrieve the early mistakes of his life, M.S. established a provision shop on his own account, in the city of New-York, and was successful.  He and his tidy little wife called on Friend Hopper, from time to time, and always cheered his heart by their respectable appearance, and the sincere gratitude they manifested.  The following record stands in the Register:  “M.S. called at my house, and spent an hour with me.  He is a member of the Society of Methodists, and I really believe he is a reformed man.  It is now more than four years and a half since he was released from Sing Sing; and his conduct has ever since been unexceptionable.”