Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-22
soc,., LIE under 0oeon Anne.

Everybody seems agreed that the literary
and social history OF Queen Aune's reign 10
one Of the few thing. which still remain to
be written; yet nobody undertakes the task.
From a social point OF view there IL, In fact,
no period of history which is at once so we'll
known aud yet 30 little known. From Ad-
disou and Steele we have learned the follies,
foibles and fashions Of that generation;
from Swift we have learned a great deal OF
the daily household life OF the time, and
have gathered that in what we should call
the best society there was found cosrsent 90
Of speech and manners which appears iu-
credible until we remember that the picture
ia certainly a gross exaggeration. What q
| frixhtiul picture might be drawn Of our gen.
GRAFTON, and without the least exsggeration,
OF the things which 60 on daily in our
streets, the millions oil men who never open
| their mouths without an OATH and never
utter a single noun substantive without
| pre6xing one and the same ugly and mean
iugless adjective; the shameless vice which
| hides not its head even al high noon; the
| Eubsnkment, where men are nightly sci
| upon, robbed, aud thrown into the river
| Just as used 10 happen 10 the Fleet ditch;
| the gambling clubs, the suburban races, the
roughs and thieves of this place and that
| place; the coulls in Maryleboue, Soho,
| Whitechapel, into which no decent pc rson
| may venture by day or night; the music
| halls aud their seuseless, stupid, and mis-
| chievous songs; the drinking and The WIFE
| kicking and The starvation. Were all things
| written down picture might be produced,
| true in everything but the proportion, which
would make the London Of Victoria COM
pare not only with the London OF Aune, but
with the Rome OF Nero. As regards crime
| and puuishnent., the sessions for ty-
| ing criminals was held eight times
a year, and there were sometimes
| twenty taken out TO be hanged at Q
| time. Five or six were put in cart To-
| gether. "The execuiioner stops the cart uu.
| der one Of the cross beams Of the gibbet sud
1 fastens 10 that ill.favored beam one end o
the rope, while the other is round the
| wrelch's neck. Thi. done, he gives the horss
lash with his whip; away goes the cart
and there swings my gentleman kicking in
the air." This was momtntary. The writer
goes on to say that il Was left for the friendi
OF the criminal TO put him out OF pain BY
pulling his legs and beating his bresst
Capt Kidd, the pirate, went TO his death
drunk; Tom Cox, q highvHymsn, kicked
chaplain and executioner both out OF tbs
cart; one Anne Greene, condemned fol
found 10 have been slill.borD, was hanged
With the assistance Of Der friend
in the humane msnner above de
scribed, and on being taken to ih'
anstomists, sctually recovered. Thos'
who refused 10 plead were still pressed Il
death. Highway robbers and pirates wer'
hanged in chains. There were good mani
highwsymen about the rosds, and near Lon
don the foo,psds were troublesome. Gyp-ie'
might be hanged as felons after the age o
fourteen. The piIlory was, go to spesk, il
the hight OF its popularity, and the duckiDi
stool was still considered necessary for thu
maintenance OF sound scfpline.-LOndo'
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