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Petion's Daughter

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
November
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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ged again, vvhen v.itnees to!d hitti tlint he would not pcrmit him to be fiogeod any more; he hád alreudy been too sevcrcly fi'Liged, nnd lie nnd rnuch irnublc aplying linkeed syrup to his bnck. The boy woa admitted into the jiil ond ffagg'ed in tho fi'st instance, op the order of íiccofder Genois; witness repriüvin ded lus deputy .ëverely for huving penniltcd tite boy lo be so severaly flngged. Armingo, the dcpnty of Plnuchrrd; pworn. - Witness corroliorated the inain facts of Pla'jèhcird's tfflimony. The two nstat ces in whfch the boy woa flogged in the absence bf Plauchard, De Neiifbourg looked on. He, svitness, was cnlled off, and did not sre the lashes given, bot heard thefclroke?, and tliink.they wrre obutit 25 pach time; the whip cuts, tho pnddlle but blackena tlo flesh. [Botli of these iiistrnmrhts were shówri to the jury. Thè pnddle is a long thong, in thn shnpeofa carriaé trace, with a short handle at one end, nnd slit open for about two , reet lhrough the center at the otlier. Tlie whip U a heavy, horse slin thong.] Dennis Corcortm, pvsotti. - HU n tention had beeiï culled to the maUer by a gentleman who requested that he would go nnd see the bov; he wpii', and foui d a crowd around hini in Bayonne 8u Tho bny's ihirt vas raised np, and then hë saw the Jaceratpd condit.on in r which he was. Some of the women cried i bilteily when they saw the co:)(üli"n in which the boy was; ilioold nfgro ih ;vlio.e charge 1 the boy wns, told who his inatfer was, and fur what, and '.vhere he had beenwhipped; - he woull have tlieboy go on lo his masterV, but ' he feemed ntttrly tfnubfej ho supporied liïmí self by a stick in on'e hand, and by leoning or

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Signal of Liberty
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