THE MEANING OF HORSE WHIPPING.
There was perhaps a time .when horse* whipping had a sort-of;meaning.-, ol When all gentlemen wore swords.i.to attack a man with a,whip meant that he i did not deserfe steel. Eren efo» nothing, jtm absolutely 'pro Ted.by the asiault, and the person whipped may hare been in « better position than he is at present'; i.He might try his chance in the duel, which; tiioueh quite,, as irrational as tlje pther ©ideal, was not,absolutely a confess settled by brute force. Now, when .anal*'aw out of fashion, horsewhipping* should be punished .with extreme. sererity aiid in some degrading, way.; They,are ; tie most brutal and ridiculous ;of/ai" A? 5 begging the question.. The, *dd,thmir is that they are still sttodeitfil^afteJ a fashion.^; The acquainUnoe* of,,a man assaulted are cpnnneed that he is in the' wrong, and he has no; appekl =and no remedy. It is, of qourse, unnecessary to say that no one 'erer tries to horsewhip W°fe wUo could, if he chose, arise and slay' bim with his hands/'."« *: ■•»
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2991, 16 September 1878, Page 2
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172THE MEANING OF HORSE WHIPPING. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2991, 16 September 1878, Page 2
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