Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-05-20
PUBLIC OPINION.
Is Delapare Right, and all The Rest Of
The World Wrongf
Can 10000 People Ancrd 60 Have
rs 900, 900 of their Fellow Ctti-
sens Think III OF Them

z6nh 10 W. . AAHss-s / .
Everybody knows that we tell the truth
bout the pillory and whipping-post. We
,port all its doings, accurately, and then
70 leave the people of Delaware and the
eople outside to think Of ii as they see pro-
er. Now listen to some of the expressions
hat came in response.
First, we clip tho following from one OF
he most able and respected religious news
,apers in the country
THE METHODIST SAYS;
"Whippins is an economical punishment
nasmuch as it saves the expense OF a decent
ail. And so the negro man or wench who
steals ham or robs hen-roost must be Ia
rerated with the Sheriif's scat nine-tails."
We have ourselves seen white man SEN
fenced, in Delaware, for larceny TO imprison-
ment and thirty-nine lashes. And yet the
Judge was u gentleman and a Christian, and
seemed unconscious of the barbarity OF the
law which he administered. Yes, rebuild
the pillory but the culprit who will stand
there, first, last. and always, a spectacle TO
the country, will be-Delaware.
THE PHILADELPHIA PRESS COMMENTS
ssDplaware, with the eyes of all the world
upon her, erects and inaugurates bran new
whipping Ten persons were publicly
thrashed at New Castle on Saturday"
THE PHILADELPHIA TELEGRAPH SAYS;
" With the eyes OF an en-
lghtened nation upon her, Delaware VIII
crack her whip in the face of civilization.
The whipping-post and pillory OF New Gas
tie county will be brought into operation
again, for tho purpose OF driving her offend
ers into Pennsylvania, and crowds OF inn0-
cent school children will gaze admirngly on
the spectacle Afforded them by the sufferers
shrinking under the lash of the executor,
and will gain some ideas Of justice and hu-
mainly that cannot fail to produce good
effect on the future of Delaware. AS If in
defiance of the condemnation that has been
universally bestowed upon the miserable
| business outside of their own State, the
| Delawnrans have decreed the erection OF 0
new whipping post in the jail yard at New
Castle, and have apparently determined thai
this relic Of savagery shall be pcrpetratet
| for all time. Such an outrage ON public
decency, however, cannot long be maintain
| ed in opposition to public opinion, and w
believe that the day is not far distant whei
even Delaware will be shamed into discard
ing St, Pilory's day from her calendar.
TIE NEW YORK TRIBUNE SAYS:
"The whole country has, for some time
been beseeching the State of Delaware |,
abolish the pillory and whipping-post.
not for its own sake, then at least for III
national reputation in other parts of tn
world, and especially in Timbuctoo and til
Canniba Islands But the Delaware tribes
SO far from fraternally needing these re
quests, have just set up II brand new POS
and pilory at New Castle, the old ones hay
ing become rotten and dilapidated. We eA
pect to hear pretty soon that the judicli
authorities have established a sweet an
lovely rack in the prison; that u few oil
steel boots for torture have been importo
from Scotland; that neat variety of thuml
/ screws and like dainty utensils has bee
manufactured and that State Commssio
will soon proceed to Spain 10 buy up thos
delicate implements of the Inquisition whic
: may have escaped the destruction OF thI
t institution. The barbariiy Of the whipping
S post is of an unenllghtened and unscientii
5 kind. There are hNndreds OF exquisite wa,
/ of making convict howl or faint with i
: tolerable anguish, of which Delaware seen
never to have heard. If torture is still to
: rcsorted to by the Delawares, they shou
. bring 20 the aid of their fine natural feroci
. an adequate knowledge of the mechanic
IS powers, and of human capacity f
d suffering"
d TIE NEW YORK HERALD BRIEFLY SAYS:
$ We denounce as barbarous the punis
id mcnt of criminals at the whipping post 81
ne in use in Delaware.
THE BALTIMORE AMERICAN sAYs
+~
i, Although this savagcry has been univ
sally condemned and exccrated outside
III Delaware, yet II new whipping post |
been erected in the Jail yard at New Cast
the old one having been worn out by CO
slant use. The force OF An indignant pun
nc opinion will one day shame Delaware II
IN aholishing these baIbartles and burning
he the whipping post and pillory.
THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER SAYS
Little Delaware Is stubborn like u child
ur n pet. Far behind her sisters in human
fe. she has grown FESTIVE at reproof of this lat
, fault and disdains TO amend her ways.
- institution, however well grounded, can Il
~ Withstand the pressure of public opin
brought TO bear against ii; neither can
whipping post and the rillory. But
ri years will have elapsed ere,in their dismi
49, from the penal code of Delaware, that Ii
ny State will have blottcd n disgrace from
zen statute book, and acknowledged that she
art wrong in so long maintaining a form Of p
or- sshmcnt linked with barbarism.
Ion THE PHILADELPHIA BULLETIN SAYS;
the 1t is Il noteworthy fact, that the nun
OF persons submitted to this barpal
punishment was greater than upon any
glu occasion. This, and the fact that
4. commission of crime in the State does
lp.rnuS,. lint y lnr INN IN,
! IN conclusively that the lash is not us ctlec
'hn in the promotion of virtue and good
Ina havior as the advocates of the system We
Nv have us believe, Such result is perfe
ne natural and in accordance with cXpericl
10y The New Castle Sheriff, ON Saturday, fog
some men Numerically, while others ha
felt the blows
e.., The people of Delaware claim for
system that il drives criminals from
'f, State. This is the design Of the ARA
'od' ment by which they are turned out of pr
dressed in lclnn's garments. Perhaps
the is the result. But where do tho Drlaw
HAT trained outlaws go! Why, to this
F,9r where they return to their evil nabis
nin arrested placed in our prisons, and suppu
,lch by our tax payers Delaware never |
We victims for her whipping-post and pill
lNd ana, IL the lorMer ones do not return
must breed villains very fast. She i
,on- fact, in the position Of a aurscry for
ave laws, who ure educated and coniirmc
my their mode Of life, and then turned loo
- IN prey upon us. 1t is an economical sy
~, fur Delaware. She is too poor or too
''", sardly to build penitcntiary and 50
ah compuls lis to do double duty in suppo
piy those lGr whom She should have sup
anre prison room aud means of reformation
ii In there was no other reason, this woul
.,.nr sufficient excuse for our protest agains
whipping post and pllory. But we n
i. a better one tor we protest against
Sc cruel and inhuman, and unworthy
aro Christian age and people.
nptc
hcl The steamer Leni Loti, laden with
mat eminent stores, was snaggcd and sun
p n her way from Little Rock 10 New 0rl
on the 18TH The boat was valued at 81: