The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-01-13
gAa WAlpplng roa. Is. the Peai.satiary


Tb< Hssiminsier Democratic Adpocase
tHenfy Vanderford and VIM. II. Wander
ford Esqs-. being the editors) warmly
eommends Delaware in that she ssprefers
10 bare the backs OF villains, score them
with the cat, and tnrn them loose with q
conyicss's jacket, to locking them up in
pani.Aatiary 10 be supported for years at
the expense Of honest taxpayers, who are
thus required TO labor not only for the sup
part ef themselses and their families, but
3oicoa haaat the subject Is attracting some
known and intelligent gentleman [ y Of
Prince Georges county suggests to the
Legislature the re-estahlishmentofth whip
ping post, which wss once Maryland as
well a. Delaware iastitulion.n
We are Of the opinion that tho man who
IN this age demands that flogging be again
incorporated into the criminal statues, to be
inflicted az . penalty for crime, has the
germ Of barhaFity in him which under fav-
orahie circumstances crops out into ku-
Klnxing. The boys who grow up in daily
contemplation of the whipping post and are
educated to look upon its shocking cruel
ties with indifference can easily be persaad
cd 10 Cog negro whenever political ext
geney or the maintenance Of the superiority
Of the ahite man suggests raid. South
carolina trained Ave or six generations Of
sons IN the use Of the s'cat, - and she now
has the satisfaction Of seeing portion of
she hast brood sent TO prison for exercising
the cruel arts which she taught them.
Tho above precious moroccan is from
tho Baiti1sors Apsericaa, Charles G..
Fulton & Son being the editors. If
she Anericaa had published the article
sntire from which the above extract was
taken for comment, We should probably
have given the matter no further atten-
ton. But there is too much fairness
10 such course 10 expect il from that
journal- Il seems scarcely competent
20 treat any subject without varying it
intc that of the ku klux or the negro
Goa the latter subject, especially, it seems
TO be afflicted with a monomania. The
mysterious workings Of the editors eere.
bral development seem to eonjure up
only phantasies of ebony complexion.
We shouldn't wonder ifthe rays Of light
IN falling upon his retina took only a
dusky hue. He sees nothing, it seems,
save through dark lens, else he would
have been able to see that white as well
as black conSicts fare alike under Del
aware's peculiar and much abused iu-
stitution. To talk of the shocking
craelties" Of the whipping post towards
uen who break into your domicil at
dead Of night and rob you of your hard.
earned treasure, is simply bOsh. No
man who defilcs his lips with such cant
unless be be made Of pigeons. milk, but
would chastise the thief upon the spot,
u taken 10 fagraati deiicto. Add who
viii question the propriety Of his
doing so? How, then, can the propriety
Of the act be called into question when
the State steps 10 and does FOR him what
he would have done himself? Il is the
duty Of every man TO protect his own
isterssts Is we'll as the interests of so.
ciety from these stealthy, velvet footed
midnight marauders, who have forfeited
~ sympathy save ia the breasts of those
Who cherish for such cattle 'a fellow
feeling which makes them wondrous
kind" or who INDUCES in q morbid
seusibility which initiates against the
bert interests Of society.
The american seems to NANTES. a
ihaly horror of the lash. Does it arise
fsom the conviction that thieves are so
multiplied, add especially official thieves,
Gthat the people are everywhere awaking
TO the necessity Of briaging them to
soondign punishment The Innocent,
.-however, have nothing 10 fear.
The american assamesfhat boys who
grow up in The daily contemplation Of
fhe whipping post are hardened and
depraved until they are wont to use the
whip with cruelty themselves. BY a
parity Of reasoning, the boys who grow
up 10 the daily contemplation of the
penitentiary, will become 50 depraved
as TO be ready to commit offences war-
thy Of incarceration Ia that institatien
1.-THE Aosericas believes in such logic
as this, il ought to be alarmed for the
safsty Of its own boys, especially if there
he any among them OF erratic turn
That such hypothesis is faIlaeious, i,
Is only necessary to show where IL leads
10, to make il apparent to all.
As TO the sons of South Carolina,
Nho The american alleges have been
sent 70 prison for the exercise of the
.ssasl art Of the cat, and over which il
ssems to gloat, we would say that none
of them have our sympathy who have
.deseysed their fate. hut how many
of them have deserved itg Have moi
.sonie Of them haen arrested for alleged
.afences committed before the passage
Of the kn,klux act, upon the testimony