THE DELAWARE WHIPPING POST

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2276, 9 November 1889, Page 2

THE DELAWARE WHIPPING POST

Governor Biggs, of Delaware, writing cf a oustom peculiar to his State, says l — " We are old-fashioned people down m 5 D-ilaware, and I presume we ire wiy bohlad the times m * good many tblngf and rather eet m one ways ; and the '", method of dealing with; certain olasßes.of orimlnala is oae of oar ways. Now, I»m .r nvt an apologist for the whipping post, > bcoioee I don't thlnbf that Delaware needi any apologies to be made for hen people or her acts, and if they did they wouldn't oome with very good grace from net Executive But I oan tell you nome faottv > There is not tn the State of Delaware' to-day a sidgle penitentiary. If a man beati bis wife or eetn fiee to a neighbor's barn, or breaks Into a hoase, he isn't shut; op with a lot of other criminals, with full time and opportunity to learn all their tricks of deviltry that he did not know oofora, As ft preventive of orime the whipping poat has a muoh greater tarror than a term ins the penltoniiary,and Ihave never known of a man that Game back for a second dose. He simply leaves the State, Yon may rest assared that if he ataya In Delaware he lives a very quiet life. To be sure, it is a relio of barbarism, but it ia our way. The Hartford "Ooura it" \ says oE this peculiar institution :— " At three o'clock the other morning Albert Gogler, of New Haven, entered the bedroom where hla olglitean y^ar-old daughter Annie was sleeping and be»thec into lnsensibility with a cart whip, beoause she refused to give him the wages she earned. Dr Oonveria, of New Haveo, who made an examination of. the girl's body, Bays of her. " I never (jaw a human being m a more pitiable •ta c from ■ whipping." On Tdeiday, Iprll 15, 1889, Senator Philip Oorblo, of New Britain, daring the oearte of the debate on tbe oelebratad Swift oaie In tht Oonneotloat Senate said, at reported"itL'the ''Ooorant" of the next day:-— **l believe that when a man kills a woman decently he should be hanged decently and m order, bat if a maa beats a woman to death ha shonld be whipped until he ia dead. That m what I believe to be right." We m Oonneotloat have no whipping poifc Sentimentftilsts call It a relic of barbuiim for whioh the present generation has no nead. Albaet Gogler will probably be fined' more or less* He may possibly go to gaol for a few days more or less. It is safe to say that ho will not be visited with a penalty severe enough to deter othei Albeit Goglors from torturing women whenever* and to whatever extent, they may see fit* For men of the Gogler stamp the fit thinf is a meal of their own aauoo, and if the laws of OoaDeoticat allowed the Delaware remedy to the very fullest extent for this particular caae, no tears would be eheo>exoept those of Aloert Gogler."