Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-12-12
NUMBER 50
TINE wBIPPINa.
what other People Think of 1t.

From some of our exchanges we have ex-
tracted the following comments on the recent
legal whippings in this State:-
tFrom the Baltimore American.
A characteristic exhibition Of Delaware
civilization was witnessed on Saturday at
New Castle in that State. Five men were
pillored in the morning., and in the after
| noon ten-four white and six colored-were
publicly whipped in the presence of ''a large
crowd Of men, boys and girls"
~ SfFromthe Philadelphia Inquirsr.Ii
Ten men, six white and four colered, were
publicly whipped at New Castle, Del, on
Saturday, a large assemblage of men, wo-
men, boys and girls Witnessing the humane
exhibition of Delaware Justice. Five men
were also on exhibition in the pillory. The
good old Democratic State of Delaware no.
bly, sustains her character for inhumanity,
and well preserves the barbarism which be-
longs to the days of slavery.
Iprom the Newark lN. J.) Evening courer.t
CIVILIZATION IN DELAWARE. : Delaware
must be nice place to live in--so great is
| the force of persuasion in that State. Satur-
day afternoon last, at New Castle, ten men,
six colored and four white were tied up to
posts and lashed as the law directs. The
exhibition, we are told, was witnessed by a
large crowd of men, boys and girls. Dur
ing the whipping one intoxicated individual
added considerable zest to the occasion by
singing hymns--thus showing that civiliza-
ton down there has not outstripped DIR.
Watts. On the morning of the same day
five men were pilloried at the same town.
Nice place that Delaware.
from the Philadelphia Prcss.l
DELAWARE pilloried herself before the
world last Saturday afternoon, at Whining
ton, Her peculiar modes of procedure
to quote tho words of her Chief Justice, re-
ceived a pointed illustration as the lash fell
on the backs Of ten meu-some OF them
Delaware voters, we presume. Scholars
and students of history who desire to have
reproduced medieval scene, and one of
the darkest of the dark and barbarous ages,
can satisfy their desire almost any beauti-
ful autumn day now, by taking the cars for
an hour OF two and plunging into the inte-
rior Of our neighboring little Common
wealth Another year it may be too late.
From the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph
On Saturday morning, five men were
placed in the pillory at New Castle, and ON
the afternoon OF the same day, ten more,
six of them being black and the remainder
white were tortured with the lash. This
highly edifying process was witnessed by
large concourse of the aborigines, men and
women, boys and girls, mingling in the
throng. The children were in great glee,
and rent with their glad shouts that portion
of the heavens which was SO fortunate as TO
be above them at the time, while drunken
brute reeled about the scene and enlivened
the spirits of the aborigines by the singing
of hymns.
1t takes but little time for a civilized Ameri-
can citizen to express his opinion of the
manner in which the Delawarians arc ac-
customed to yindicate the laws, but we find
ourselves at loss for a word which will give
full vent and force to our feelings.
From the Philadelphia Morning Postl
They still hold to the whipping-post and
pillory in Delaware. We print, today, an
account of grand scourging with which
the inhabitants Of the peaceful village of
New Castle were entertained on Saturday
last 1t is a matter Of some surprise that
| they do not reviye,5own tncre, tne Ola -~i.-t.
boiling In oil, ,say--railroad, telegraph, and
steam engine men. If by some extraordi-
nary process we could send few aldermen,
police officers and councilmen to New Cas-
lie, about whipping time, we should not so
much complain, but considering we cannot
reap any advantages from the system we
have fair swing for our principle, and mildly
pronounce these proceedings outrageous
and disgraceful. Our friends of the Will
mington Commerc,al have dealt the
wretched old system some hearty blows,an
we should be glad to see them follow the
matter up yet more strongly. Delaware is
many pac.s to the rear of its fellows of the
Middle States This whipping saturnalia
might be supposed to have occurred in the
heart of Georgia or Mississippi in the seven
teenth century.
From the N. Y. Tribune.l
FIogging In Delaware.
| One of the most important pecularities of
| the American Union is that each State feels
a kind of moral responsibility for the fair
fame of every other. When we read, there
fore, that in the State Of Delaware they have
forgotten the Year of our Lord, and continue
to inhict tlogging and the pillory as judicial
penalties,it ii is time for those who are outside
that small State to protest against ancient
barbarties which bring discredit upon the
whole country. Only last week there were
ten men publicly flogged at Newcastle. This
is form of punishment which has been
bandoned-except as part of the military
code-by most civilized states 1t is essen
tally barbarous. Where it does not exist in
the United States, it could no more be fresh
! " introduced than the rack, the boots, and
the thumbscrew, or any of the various forms
of torture which are said to have been prac-
ticed in prisons of the Inquisition. If the
legislative authorities of Delaware were to
introduce into the administration of their
criminal law drawing, quartering, breaking
on the wheel, burning, or any other of the
refined innictions of former times-any OF
those punishments which are now classified
as s'cruel and unusual we question IL
the people of the United States, Constitution
or no Constitution, would not be tempted
practically to interfere. Human nature
would get the better of human law.
But from all these penalties, fogging only
differs in degree. 1t may not kill the body
il may not dislocate the joints ii may not
crush the bones II may not scar the flesh
but no man with the ordinary feelings oil
manhood, after having been pnbli,ly whip
ped, will ever hold his head up in the
ncighborhood again. Flogged once, he
will probably be fiogged again and again.
Hc has been hopelessly disgraced, and, as q
member of society, utterly ruined. If hi
makes any effort, it will be All effort to he
respectable in crime, and he will rise from
larceny to burglary, simply that he may
avoid the whipping post and attain the com
parative gcntility Of the State Prison.
The fewer traces we have left of ina
Slavery which has been abolished, the bet
ter. In Rome, the yoke was the emblem o
servitude in the United States, it is tht
whip. While this continues to be flourish
ed in any former slave State, there will b'
social if not legal, moral if not practically
Slavery still. We therefore advise the peo
pl of Delaware to pull down their posts ie
fircwsod, and to sell their whips to the diiv
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