The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-04-18
THE WHIPPING pposF. 20
ANDERSON, S. c., April Il

the article of "Ciyis" IN your paper OF
April 4, cas- an eloquent and sharp expose
of f:thes erpensire and laundering manner
inwhich the State Furnishes her convicts.
s..[t is also timely. Much complaint has
been heard, in our own State, as to the
soft punishment with which the govern;
ment has rewarded villainies in-the Pen
.itentiaty. IF these letters of eCiyis"
shall have some effect towards making
crime pas for Itself rs well as making
It's penalties more efficient, a step towards
very desirable Improvement will have
besn attained. s. st Eist5
But the stsimple, primitive, inexpensive
and powerful c0rrecsor which he propo-
ses rs 3 money-saying penalty, to wit,
the ss@hipping post, win hardly meet
the necessities Of the case. Ths gradual
increase Of time puniahments over those
in which the State inaicts sharp and
crrt penalty, and is done with the often
de-, aeeus to show an experiences Of
g.; :, y,r 4 ~ form s. q !,
q. bosh a, t forr, stor,. ard less
e,-,ss.;,a 80 h.o.-.s t;me o;yes r,or., bane
= ha,, ,ss !, rscS,sr;;,;,. rs ssntrol
tbsn q. oi;cI byt t;;na z, ,p,,,nalsy
sInce.piysstii, ysictin his liberty
: / s,s;n s,,si Moreoyer,;thas y transgressor has
fo1fsitsd ais psrsohaal ems Liberties 10 5tbe
State, which gives to it the right to
atiliye3 his timei in labor. mol, only to
. sqpset b, thcs expenses Sof his Punishment, m
hut a. ia, as possible, to repair the dam
sc,s. s, s,ff lb;s crime There can scarcely
s,hs e J, more economical penalty than con-
Sv,;ck VIC labor for all ordinary transgre.sions,,
and sst.erscan hardly be one sbettarscal-
cfiiated to restore ss a y man to the State than
assessan ,l sionver m or shoTssr, of industrial
( oTsssssinsrion daily hab;tuatinp the person
osussfill lemployment Indeed, we can
not s,e vhvthe state shonla impose uuon
bsr orderly 81 citizens the e e expenses e of long
consnement after tr;al.and conviction in
!, any cases but those in which. it would be
psrbsd:ent to risI an escape. The
.crafistiots Of the penalty could be ef.
fected by the time4of work if mot by the
Kinds and amount ,f itIexacted:
Rnt a more ser;ous d;fficulty in the
nenaity nroposed by aCiy;sn ia that It
.nnoishes mora thar, the. State intends or
has . sripbt 10 Z, ip,,n;sb The sentiment Sc Of
tb;, cni,ntrv has fairly repudiated it, and
tbe government has silently consented
by not inAictipp it. The country has
renuiiated il not because it has ar,y $ sym-: NJ:
natbv for, rascals but because IS ii has ,.I en-
;ynom;py which reacts s, .t,, deleteriouslv on on
-,,tu,o of a. sn;..;n: 81,
-. . r;,,a..s l,,.s ',ss:I;;,,sTs o.t,a :.
-. &, 49, ~, 49,, .osc;;
issty saIl. nsn,lt;ss az, understood h be
;rno,,in;on. bnt tbsrc ara som, ,sn,cb 40
vb;npinos brandiinrS s. !. mutiiatinssl which
hrrt,l;,e Tho bnman being crushing all
valuable onaI;t;esss s,,yib which the State does
M ,;ntsnd & to do and has NO RIGHT To do
,stots has ~ s;;s,bt 10 destroy tbe
,,I Tho ,o;ao.;on 81 ,hosa n.,alt;.. :.
as.,,,na :, tbs r,oud,;r tondernee: ,nf the
,a.on.a tha s.sSs bas fsS;n,o a a, I,
,bstssr s ,av, of commanding Justice. of re.
y. cs;n,eg and sSoye sS ali soe ec,,no. S,
m;;ziioc = c;tiaen. existence. =
The nen;tentiaries isnda iails of the
n;neteenth century have NO doubt been
-, considerable softened by the beneficiary
;nst;tnt;onsofthe ape asvlums a1linsbuo1nses
aan5li;nf,rn,ar;e,ss. ,tby inn movements in pub
En hsI;; a mos and nr;;yata DWELLINGS, bv the
relatiye advance in the comforts of living
and not least by the moral pepsibilities
OF 81 the generation. enc II was scarcely posi-.
blethat.all these agencies would not have
relieved the condition of the convict
sybose neaaltys was simple confinement.
No civilized State would. or could con.
ssstrnet a Roman duppeon-a hollow globe
Of Stone masonry beneath the ground,
with ONLY san air.holes sat the top-or q
Bastiles siiAh cells i9sfeet beneath the
surface, or such an awful pit as that
which shot down far into the earth,
saaderathe ,yery shadow ofithe Vatican.
The ;oeopls swo,;ids tear: down such strue.
tures Of fill M such cayerps as sool, as
tbev we're made. The French in 1889
tore down their own Bastile. a structure
n,,;cs began 3 10 he built in the fourteenth
.rTts,. S..,.- ,..o,t,sd;.,
censu . ne osaee 'a.ioS 1on'l ac'e'
her ciyliization oy remaining nef relac-
tory citizen back to the miseries of an
absbJste fpenai code And as the State
cenno. remand her nen;tentiar;es and