The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-03-09

,cGplHl .\>.rNl'lN Hl'!>' N' u'""V !" !
know that Tie nights and demands OF
he people shall NOT -" treated with
The Whipping Post.
The Cuu!irr-.lourlAl has an a'tF'r
on the sub jrct of whipping posts tor
nct1y crimes which tcals into Shic">
that sickIy sentimcnta(ity which re-
CARDS such punishment as barba'
rous and degrading to manhood. 1t
argues that all punishment is degra
ding and that if it were not so II
would be no punishment. 1t is de-
grading to bc confined in Jail. 1t is
degrading to be sent to the penltcn-
tiary and dressed up like harlequin
in striped clothes. 1t is degrading to
he expelled from a public body or
impcacled in high office. The whole
effort of the law is to degrade Offend
crs After citing the degrading and
severe punishment inflicted on c''m'-
nails by imprisonment in dirty jail,
dcbarrcd from intercourse with trends
and relations, probably chained and
nut on bread and water; and the
case of the ohstrcpcrous convict III
. the peritcntary whose back is ba'ed
! to the strap, or if he attempts to es-
cane is shot down by the vigllant
quad, the article continues as fol-
lows:
All that ia right but if a vasa-
bond thief steals pig, or q brace of
chickens, or the family's stock of ba-
con, or an overcoat, and it is propos-
cd to give him a moderate tiogglng
under judicial sanction, sentimental
persons raise their hands in holy hor-
ror, and all the jailcrs JON in a howl
over the prospective loss of the petty
thiefs winter board.
In this humanely administered
commonwealth how many mothers
,, slippers will this day spank the ten
, der hides of umuly little boys? How
many fathers, prompted by a stern
| sense of duty, will take their son to a
remote part of the dwelling and ap
c nv the rod How many bad boys
= in all our schools will be called out
$ from the impressed auks of tho class
e to feel the instructive straps! For
: that matter, how many mothers will
II rise M in the might of maternal in
: dicnatiur and box the ears OF lmpu'
II dent daughters And for that mat
It ter, again, how many drunken, bru
IL tai husbands will bully and strike
}. their delicate wives and the law not
particularly trouble itself concernin!
e #? Leaving out the wife whipping
8 for the remedy of which a specia
J. whippng-post onsht to be set up il
t every city. town and county in TIN
y country--no one bnt the extrem
s. sentimcntalists will say that the ba'
5 boys ought not to be Aogged, and tn
50 impuaent girls have their ears gent.
Or boxed. In all the famous schools
ID England the strap is freely employed
ne and the English men are as BRAY
at and fine specimens of manhood as til
c. world produces. All our great me
es were hogsed when boys and the he
,ocs of the revolution were frequent
" tied up to the gun carriages an
logged at the command OF their com
pany officers. Our va|ient Washing
ton himself would have received a
r. historical togging if he had not SUI
I'M priscd his father into indulgence b
ia, unexpectedly telling the truth abo'
is, the cherry tree. Al! history unite
- with present experience to tell
of that there is nothing especially ba
IN, barous aud iuhuman in the span!
tic ing slipper, the slapping hand, Il
OF rod or the strap.
ms 1t is only when we reach the snea
nd thief that our tender senslblAltl
III oyerrun our common sense. v
10 daughters may have an unwont
tn pink in their delicate ears, our lit
ing boys may not care to sit down, tn
md bic brothers may endeavor tor a q
er to prevent contact between TN
ISL backs and their coats, but the hi
pi- of the sneak thief must be preserv
Observation-Disclosures must be no ma
p to mar the manhood of his imma<
ned late and noble back. That is
'th- stuff and nonsense. 1t has no fou
'ra- dation in humaneness. 1t is MOTH
" moro than the fearful apprehensl
nay that when we fog a thief we
and strike a voter.
, '"s The object Of punishment is
men nrevent crime. There was once
1oI' hibited in London, among other
"o- riosities from the East, some tigu
+t \" showing how the thugs disposed
anT the victims they intended to rob:
Wy ", a week the London thugs had ado
;a" 1 ed the garote, and peaceful Lone
" '..a merchants found themselves cho|
we we into REIMBURSEMENT of their peck
W. books. Arrest after arrest was m
I b"t g sar ing" was not abated: T
some public bcnefaclor bethou
him of the whipping-post. Hal
dozen or less English thugs y
the souudly tlogged, and garot'ns "
.nate out of fashion more rapidly tina
, the came in. In Kentucky the pre-
form punishment for petty thlevlng
be. not prevent the crime Every &C
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