The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-01-19

MnoOIei IL ls Cne eloquence Of Pendleton
Gne solld sense of Herndon, the dry wit O
Iayior OF Loudoun, the progressive idea:
oI afeene, or the black virulence of Moss
snat Is ventilated, a visitor is always sure o.
glslativc junta. -.
Yesterday the subject that claimed atten
tlon longest and attracted the creates,
| crowd was s.ah -. e,'"'''
THE WHIPPING-PosT.
The bill under consideration was one of
fered by Mr.. Greene. of PETERSBURG. seve
raj days ago, and called up on this Occasion
on motion OF MIR. Massey. 1t reads as fol
lows: .-......s :, >'0 AZ
" Be 1t enacted Iy the General Assembl,,
That all laws providing for the punishment
OF citizens OF this Commonwealth by stripe,
be, and the same are hereby repealed.O
MIR. Greene spoke in favor of its passage
He regretted that he was not in his sea
when the bill was first considered, as b,
might now be forced unwillingly to 90 owe
some of the ground already taken by otbe
Senators. 1t seemed to him that the whip
ping-post was relic of the dark ages, AMI
certainly i'll this day of refinement it shoul,
be abolished. 1t could not be regarded witt
any degree OF pleasure, being at varianc
with the ideas OF humanity now prevailin
throughout the civilized world. To see
man tied up, stripped to the waist, an,
whipped
NAN MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD
was this a sight for the nineteenth century
we lnfllct punishment in order to max
men better; but when we take man, iii
him up to post, and inflict this brutalzin!
punishment, we only raise in his breast bit
f,1 win inf; Joko
resentment, and he does not think any eff
fort Is made for his improvement. He il
not made better, but far worse.
WHIPPING SAILORS.
The speaker then referred to the punish
ment of sailors by stripes. This, he said
had been abolished, and the consequence
was that our navy is in far better condi
tlon than ever before. He thought that thi!
system of punishment was aimed ut Il class
and he should be glad if it was allowed tC
remain in vogue-at the end of the year Ia
know how many white and how man,
colored persons had been subjected to this
brutal infliction. 1t had been said that thi:
mode of punishment was intended as much
tor the white men as for the colored men o.
this State, but
THIS WAS NOT TRUE;
50 laf as ne knew, the colOred people were
the ones to suffer most in this matter. II
would serve, if it was continued, to drive
away the great labOring class Of our people
from the State. 1t was not those who re-
NAMED IN the cities that it would effect
but those who were tilling the ground-in
word, the working class of the people.
1T IS RELIC OF SLAVERY,
and if, as he believed it to be unanimously
admitted, slavery has passed away with its
blighting curse upon Virginia, in Gods
name let all this go away with it. Let this
barbarism, the whipping-post, 90 too He
regretted that he was not able to present
his views in better shape, but he had been
otherwise engaged since the introduction
of this bill. He believed it would increase
the commission of acts in violation OF the
laws Of the land.
HOW 1T IS IN PETERSBURG.
In the city which he had the honor to
represent (Petersblrg the class who had
suffered this punishment were mostly boys.
He preferred some sort of reformatory
school for the punishment of persons who
were thus guilty. He could not agree with
other senators, who said it would be q
measure Of economy. To his mind it would
be the contrary. In conclusion, he
thought this was the only relic of barba.
rism that remained in Virginia, and he
hoped that both Houses of the General As
sembly would unite with him in doing away
with this brutal relic of the days OF
slavery.
AN ADVOCATE OF STRIPES.
General Terry gained the floor, and said
that he hailed from section of the State
whose people claimed to be the equal in
of any in the world, and whose
Judge was as good and pious a citizen US
ever wore the ermine, and who, he be-
lieyed, was the first to put this system into
operation since the close OF the war. He
had seen that the Senator clasSed as barba-
riSm
BOTH WHITE AND BLACK MEN WHIPPED.
He wished our statute books were like
those reported of the Old North State in
other times, where there were but two pun
ishments-Whipping and hanging the
whipping for the minor offences, and the
hanging for the greater ones. He was re-
minded of circumstance which had oc-
Cured in his own county. A colored boy
had been arraigned, tried, found guilty, and
sentenced to be whipped and imprisoned:
The prisoner arose in his seat and asked
that few more stripes be ordered and his
it would be the pleasure of the Senate to
let the law remain as it now stands.
WHIPPING BETTER THAN IMPRISONMENT.
Dir. Patterson said that this law was re-
vised in '65 or '66, and was made for the
white man and not for the black. He would
like to know from the Senator's on the other
side which was the most degrading, to be
whipped and turned loose at once, or to be
confined in Jail for period of almost inde-
finite length Whipping is terror to evil.
doers. Revive it everywhere and we will
soon be rid of this class Of petty offenders.
white man 1t was made. As for his county
(Patrick), but one man had there been
under the existing law, and he
was white man. Even in the schools the
white boy suffered alike with the black.
FLoGGING IN SCHOOL.
Mr.. Greene interrupted the Senator, and
asked him whether he knew OF any blood
ever to have been brought in school by
foggng.
Mr.. Patterson replied that in the good
and pure city Of Boston, where the religion
that Is taught is as good and pure Us that
taught by the Lord Jesus, he had recently
read the accounts which went the rounds
Of the newspapers Of q girl having been
TO DEATH BY HER SCHOOL TEACHER.
Senator Teamoh desired to ask Mr.. Pat
terson If he would be willing to have his
son tied up and whipped.
DEFENDS UPON CIRCUMSTANCES. i
Mr.. Patterson replied, "Yes;" il his son
stole, he would deserve it. As to slavery, he
found il here when he was born, and while
he did not approve of il, he did not know
how to get rid of 1t. The first woman that
he ever saw was black woman. She was
hisnurse, and almost raised him, and next
to his mother he loved her. BE had grown