The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1903-02-13
Old-Fashioned Whippings.
Delaware Convicts Given Lashes tor
Their MIsdeeds.

l
i Green Bank, Del, Feb. 7.-Jo-
seph Simpson, Of Centervllle, N.
T., was given the lash today.
Simpson had robbed a number of
farm houses, and upon conviction
was sentenced to forty lashes and
and ten years Imprisonment. The
lashes were administered today.
Simpson suffered excruciatingly
from the lashes, crying out pite-
ously: "Oh, Lord, save me, Oh
Lord, relieve me from my suffer-
ings," as the cat drew the blood.
Samuel King was also whipped.
He pulled his hands twice from
the pillory as the lashes cut his
flesh.
Altogether ten prisoners were
whipped, one of whom was given
ten lashes for stealing a chicken.
u Delaware was slave state until
Lincoln issued his proclamation of
emancipation and it was an intense
ly democratic state until the re-
publican party forcibly investe
the negro with the privilege of
voting. Through the negro vote
it is now a republican state and its
politics is interspersed with all
sorts of republican antics and in
congruities. The intelligence and
virtue of the little state are held in
allegiance in their efforts to main
tain good government, by the cor
rupt and dishonest practices of its
republican leaders.
From the above telegram it will
be seen that the fashioned
whipping post is still in vogue as
means of punishment in the state
and that a goodly number of
victims are found to use it upon.
The telegram which we print is in
complete in that it does not tell
whether the culprits, mentioned
| are white or black and it affords no
4 insight into the political affilia-
tions of the poor fellows who are
the subjects Of the lash. 1t does
not tell how many Of them are
democrats nor how many are re-
publicans, an commission which re-
tards US in formingtan opinion as
to the benefits that society may
receive from the application OF the
law. If we are left to judge of the
nature of the offenses committed
by the reference to single case of
chicken stealing, we should think
all the cases were for minor Of
fenses in which event the infer
ence would follow that negroes
were the subjects. Another singu
lar feature about the matter is
that one of the victims was citi-
H zen Of New York,-probably a
tramp, whose offense was farm
robbing.
We print this telegram as mat
ter of information to our people
who do not know of half of the
barbarities that are practiced by
the godly and sanity puritans OF
the east, who affect SO much hor-
ror at the treatment which the me-
gro receives in the south. The
whipping post nowhere exists in
the south. The negro down here
, is not punished for half of his
misdeeds-if he were, over half OF
them would be in our peniten-
tiaries. It is a grewsome spectacle
to contemplate-that of a man tied
up to a whipping post and his
flesh lacerated by the lash. 1t is
bad enough to think of a white
, man being thus punished by law.
! But it takes on a tinge of the hor.
rible when we think Of s'poor,
) down trodden nigger," who had.
mt "done nothin' but steal chick.
! Yen,' being subjected to such tor.
ture in state north of Mason &
, and Dixon's line, in which every
"cullud gentleman" votes the re-
publican ticket and thus secures
two millionaire republican sena.
tors and congressman to help
along the trusts aud combines In
: their work of fleeing the people.
} Public Speaking.