Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-03-22
Corporal Punishment Again"
REDEANp March, 1878

REDtAND, March, 1878.
! Mr.. Editor In Difference to your editorial
of two weeks since, ] ask space for the fol-
lowing
"Daring burg!aries by armed men, and high
way robberes took place in the capital itself
every night families were publicly cautioned
not 10 90 ont of town without removing their
furniture TO upholsterers' warehouses for secu-
rity; the highwayman in the dark was
city brakeman in the light; the mail was
robbed at will the Lord Mayor Of London,
was made to stand and deliver on Turnham
Green by one highwaymdn who despoiled
| him in siqht of his numerous Tetinue thieves
shipped of diamond crosses from the necks of
noble lords, &C., &c. In the midst of these
things, the haDgman, ever busy, and ever
worse than useless, soas in constant requsi-
ton now stringinG up long rows Of mis-
cellaneous criminals; now burning people in
in the hand ("Corporal Punishment') at
Newgate 5y The dozen, aud now burning pam
phlets at the door of Westminster Hall; to-
day taking the life OF an atrocious murderer,
tomorrow, of a wretched piyerer who had
robbed farmers boy Of sizpence, Petty
| Larceny").
So says Chas. Dickens, of England in the
| 18th century. Again, little later:
"Dealh is Natures remedy for all things,
and why not Legislation's2 Accordingly, The
forger was put to Death the utterer Of bad
note was put 10 Death the unlawful opener of
a letter was put to Death the purloiner of forty
,biyJ;no, and sixDence (s'petly larcenv,,I was
pnt IN Delth. The coiner Of a had shilling
was nut 10 Death. Not that il did The I,oa
oood IN The ,,au of orey,nt;on-d ,n;obt bo,e
b,en oI,aoa ,,o1fh -,narkino that he fact a,os
ernctlu he reperse-but n cleared Of las IN
this worldly the trouble of each particular
case and left nothing else connected with il
to be looked after.
Aqai,. speakinp Of the cold Bail.v pri.
son 81
AT wa, lannon's for The un;,lorv "a wise
old institution. that inflicted a punishment of
.,h;ch mo one eould foresee he erteDt. also
very bumanizinp and softeniug 10 behold in
action. for the "Whipping Postn another
dear old Institution also. for extensive trans
actions in blood money. anofber Crao1aent of
ancestral ,oisolona. susfenlaticaalLy Lead;no TO
the most Truthful neycenary crimes that could
be committed under Heapen'
This. italics excepted. ! from Chas. Dickens.
who. loving his country much. loved HUI
manity more.
"A novelist Won say9 Yesi But a man
who has con,essedly done as much toward
helpinp Eppland's poor-as much toward
making certain of her laws eoniya;Je in their
action 10 all Glasses. as any man who ever
lived who. usinp his novels as an ins,ru-
ment. reached the hearts Of the general public.
unavoidable by other means and comnelled
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'ne neeu'ul ".sn . " lne Jaw % ue
pomet "uo sp.". s,Tas par VI nls iie ~
ssuuy VI sae pao' .na. ue ~ opon w
.ne presehs, as su,ue i1r .ne .us"le "no
mro,e NO, 'or yeSso'aay a,one, nos ,Oa quay;
,: 'oI 81, ''ne, anu ,'' ~
NV -, - ano leafs dnu Us ~ CO. mel H. '",o' d
OF humanity. "A no'ehst! les nut De II
reme,noeieu mat, !h's eohot'ion OF society Id
the lStn century Is matter OF history
ana here' only SO snort ume since, we mo
condition OF things worse-innnlely worse
than at present corporal punish
ment OF various xmas, togelhsr win OApi,
tai Punishment constant DAILY use, ana