The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-01-13

1As Wesi,Hinster Democratic Adrocats
lHsaty Vanderford and VIM. II. Wander
ford, Esqs, being the editorsl warmly
commends Delaware in that she ssprefers
10 bare the backs Of villains, score them
with The cat, and turn them loose with a
consicfs's jacket, to locking them up in a
Dsniientiary 70 b supported for years at
The expense Of honest taxpayers, who are
thus raQsircd 70 labor not only for the sup.
port sf themselves and their families, bat
kor 4hs ssgnes Also The Adsocafe re-
1oices 14Aat eka subject is attracting some
sattenfion in Maryland, and that a we'll
known and intelligent gentleman ~ Of
Prince Georges county suggests TO the
Legislature the re-establishmentofth the whip.
ping post, which was once a Maryland as
well a. Delaware iastitulion.n
We are Of tho opiaion that the man who
IN this age demands thai aegging be again
incorporated into the criminal statues, TO be
inflicted as q penalty for crime, has the
germ Of barbsrity in him which under Ev-
erahle circumstances crops out into Kn-
kiaxing. The boys who grow up in daily
contemplation Of the whipping post and are
educated 10 look upon its shocking cruel
ties with indifference can easily be persuad-
ed 10 dog negro whenever political ext
geacy or the maintenance Of the superiority
OF the schite man suggests raid. South
Carolina trained Eve or six generations Of
sons in the use Of the t'cat, !" and she now
has the satisfaction Of seeing a portion of
the last brood sent TO prison for exercising
tths cruel ars which she taught them.
The above precious morceaa is from
the Baitinsors Ameriedn, Charles G.
Fulton 4 Son being the editors. If
che american had Published the article
entire 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
In such course 70 expect il from that
Journal. Ii seems scarcely competent
% treat any subject without warpiog it
INTO that Of the ku klux or the negro.
sOa the latter subject especially, it seems
70 be afflicted with monomania. The
mysterious workings of the editors cere-
bral development seem to conjure up
only phantasies Of ebony complexion.
We shouldn't wonder ifthe rays of light
an falling upon his retina took only
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 conyicts fare alike under Del.
aware's peculiar and much abused TO-
stitution. To talk Of the shocking
cruelties" Of the whipping post towards
men who break into your domicil at
dead Of night and rob you of your hard
sarned treasure, is simply bosh No
man who dsflcs his lips with such cant,
unless he be made of pigeons. but
would chastise the thief upon the spot,
II taken in aa9raRti dsiicto. Aud who
Will question the proptiety of his
doing sol 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? 1t is the
DUTY Of every man TO protect his own
intsrssts IS we'll as the interests of So
oiety from these stealthy, velvet footed
midnight maraaders, who have forfeited
al sympathy save ia the breasts Of those
Who cherish for such cattle ia fellow.
feeling which makes them woudrors
kind" or who INDUCES 10 a morbid
sensihilty which initiates against the
best interests Of society.
The american seems to manifest
lholy horror of the lash. Does it arise
fsom the soavietion that thieves are SO
multiplied, sad especially official thieves,
THAT the people are everywhere awakiug
to the necessity of bringing them to
.eondigu punishment The Innocent,
however, have nothing to fear.
The American assames,that bows who
grow up in The daily contemplation of
Ale whipping post are hardened aud
depraved until they are wont to use the |
whip with cruelty themselves. By
parity Of reasoning, the boys who grow
up in the daily contemplation of the
penitcntiary, will become so aeprayed
as to be ready to commit offences war
thy Of incarceration in that iustitutien.
II the american believes 10 such logic
as this, it ought to be alarmed for the
safety ofits own boys, especially if there
be any among them OF erratie turn
That such hypothesis is fallacious, it
is only necessary to show where 1t leads
TO, to make il apparent to all.
As to the sons Of South Caroliaa,
who the American alleges have been
sent 10 prison for the exercise Of the
.szasl art of the cat, and over which il
seems to gloat, We would say that none
of them have our sympathy who have
-dsserred their fate. But how many
of them have deserved it? Have not
some Of them. been arrested for alleged
.atiences committed before the passage
Of the kn,klux act, upon the testimony
Of men unworthy of belief9 We hove
the authority of Mr.. Blair, if reported
correctly, for saying they have. Doubt
less the Anlerieaa will say otherwise,
and we must not question its damask
reputation for veracity, (scarlet, per.