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Establishing A Raw

Establishing A Raw image
Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
May
Year
1842
Copyright
Public Domain
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The dnvers oí hack! B(cabs in Ijondon are said Co have a cus Bhich they cali establhhiitg a raw. Wk? brt'kpn down borses, who can only bi Spt in motion by the most eevere siimulii }ond to effect this they cut or bruise or ch Bfekin fromsome epot convenient to b Pnnd this is kept Hiill of ihe driver consista in snappinor til Kf liis tliontr into Bwhioh every partiMg in the animal is roused to action. It is ccrtainly a very cruel process towards iiiib brute, bnt it furnishes a capital Br the treatment ofa Hfressorp whosp concienïed by any orc'inary appliHPOii such heinps we must land then yon can rrach their minds. I waí led to lh8 remark, by obsern the Globe of Satitrday a Ion and elabórate article, eopird from the Richmond En qnirpr, coniplainuig that the two abolition reporters in Congress are in the habit of abusingr the Southern memhers of the House, by calling them ne ro drivers and overseers, elavetrader8 and slnvebreeders. Of conree, there is no compiaint of anv injustice in tbis uompnclature. Tlierp could be none, for they are slave buyers and slave breederp, and they net üke negro drivers and overseers. They eomplain therefore, aa the tlnef cnmplained ol the pillory, not because he did not deserve it but because it hurt his feolingg. In this case it ehóws that tney have 'teelings, and that those feelings have been reached, or, in othe words, we have estnblished a raw, so ver uore, too, that a mere flourish of the whip thongh but in sport, makes them roar with agony. Now that we have tried its efficiency we shall be much to biame unless we n t only keep open this raw, but if it shonld lose sny of its sensibility, or fail of doing up our work, to establish olhers aa occasion ïuay require. The Enquirer says we cali Speaker White the overseer of the House. It is a great mistake; we neer called him so. Wc have saic that on certain occasions he did certoin things with the air and tnanner of an overseer, but he is not the overseer of the House; he is not eren the

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News