Punishing The Modern Day M'Koshesh Etzim

From a really long time ago:

"Now while the sons of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering wood on the sabbath day. And those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation; and they put him in custody because it had not been declared what should be done to him. Then the Lord said to Moses, "The man shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp." So all the congregation brought him outside the camp, and stoned him to death with stones, just as the Lord had commanded Moses." (Bamidbar 15:32-36)

From the publication announcing the Anti-Sabbath Convention of 1848 - Not so long ago

"The right of every man to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience is inherent, inalienable, self-evident. Yet it is notorious , that in all the States, excepting Louisiana, there are laws enforcing the religious observance of the first day of the week as the Sabbath, and punishing as criminals such as attempt to pursue their usual avocations on that day, avocations which even Sabbatarians recognize as innocent and laudable on all other days.... should they vanture to labor even for bread on that day, or be guilty of what is called 'Sabbath desecration,' they are liable either to fine or imprisonment."