The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-04-14


no easy task to keep newspaper establishment
in the South in flourisiling condition.
| 90 NuIPPED-Reuben McDowd, a negro,
was tried this morning before Judge Fowle,
upon charge of stealing pair of shoes from
II. Rosenbauni, and the jury found him gull
| tv. His punishment was assessed at thirty
nine lashes on the bare back, which was duly
administered by the sheriff. '-Rateigh, (N.
O. Py0g5eSs, april ?.
| In view of such occurrences as these
| quite common in the South-we think the
civil rights bill has not become Inv day
too soon. A gentleman who was present
and witnessed the execution of the above
sentence writes a friend in this city that it
VAS the most horrible thing ever saw
| The negro was made to take off all his
| clothes. The sheriff then took a cowiide
and gave him thirty-nine lashes, bringing
the blood every time, and using up two cow
hides. / saw another whipped to-day. |
understand that they are going to cut the
ear off one tomorrow, which is another way
they have Of furnishing here 1t is time
that American civilization was thoroughly
puIged OF these relics of harbarism. Ger
taid sections OF the civil rights BILL if APP
piled to the judge who pronounced this SEN
tentc and the sheriff who executed it, would
have a salutary effect upon both. No
prove the necessity Of this measure than the
occurrence related Wash. Chronicle.
The law of this State provides that
all males, both white and black, shall
be.publicly whipped, when convicted of
the crime of larceny. Since our civil
courts have resumed their operations,
persons OF both colors have been whip
ped for stealing. The law makes no
distinction. If Reuben NIcDowd had
been n white man he would have been
punished in the same way. This has
been a custom with our people for many
generations, and if this generation bea
William CASTOR and Nathaniel Macon
belonged We believe that when a
person, black or white, is guilty of steal
ing, he deserves to be whipped for it
and that person who wilfully and
wickedly commits murder, ought to be
hanged. But the people of our State
have no choice in this respect. They
have no penitentiary or houses OF cor
rection, and they must either whip
thieves or turn them loose on society
The decentralization occasioned by the
war has been such. that if the latter
should be done, all the farmers horses
would be stolen, and indeed no species
Of property would be safe. Our peo-
ole are not able at this time to build
houses of correction. They are barely
able to pay their taxes and live. Their
civil courts cannot even pay witnesses
and jurors for their attendance; and we
know that, at the last term OF Wake
County Court, formerly one Of the
wealthicst counties in the State,) there
was not money in the treasury to pay
mechanic for making some pine tables
for one of the officers. We beg our
friends who reside in more favored re-
gions, to bear with us III our poverty.
We are as solicitous as any of them can
be to uphold the character Of &C Ameri-
can civilization" We-regret that some
of our ancient customs, and the poverty
that prevents us from erecting peni-
tertiary OF houses of correction for the
punishment of crime, should subject us
to uncharitable and injurious imputa-
tions. But our laws, so long as they
are in accordance with the Constitu-
ton, and so long as they bear equally
in their punishments on white and black,
do not concern citizens of other States
Our contemporary of the Chronicle
would punish the Judge who directed
this colored man to be whipped, and the
Sheriff for whipping him.. The civil,
rights bill would not do that. The col.
ored man was punished just as a. white
man would have been, and: as white
men have been, recently; and this is all
the bill referred to requires. Il
But the correspondent of the Chroaa-
icze, who has no doubt witnessed many
things more "horrible" than the whip
ping of miserable thief, is shocked at
the report that 4" they are going to cut
the ear off one Tomorrow Well, the
ear has not been cut Off Every body
still has his ears, and some people have
very long ears. True, one of the pun,
ishments for perjury in this State is