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I might have thought it looked like the signal of the abdication of a system; the gondolier who was with me took it up and reviled it as representative of birbanti matricolati, who fed upon the poor, and in whose expulsion from that island he rejoiced. But he had little reason to do so, since the last use of the place was for the imprisonment of refractory ecclesiastics.
Andrea recovered and returned to work; he was in the strike of 1875, threw a stone, and underwent a term of imprisonment. In the year 1877 his native village, Airolo, was destroyed by fire. "Now I have burnt my boats behind me," he said, "there is no going back I must go on." The 19th of July 1879 was a day of mourning.
His history of his imprisonment during the French Revolution in Paris, I found more to my taste.
He had been convicted before Judge Parry of obtaining money by lying and other illicit means, had been condemned to fine and imprisonment and as he refused to pay the former most obstinately declaring that he was penniless he was made to stand for two hours in the pillory, and was finally dragged through the streets in a rickety cart in full sight of a jeering crowd, sitting with his back to the nag in company of the public hangman, and attired in shameful and humiliating clothes.
Yet, year after year, such attacks were repeated, and, even during the last year, imprisonment was suffered by several Officers for leading Meetings where they had regularly been tolerated for some thirty years; but where some newly-appointed dignitary would rather not see them.
A statute recites that "by the yearly Congregations and Confederacies made by the Masons in their general Chapiters and Assemblies, the good Course and Effect of the Statute of Labourers be openly violated ... and such Chapiters and Congregations are forbidden and all Masons that come to them are to be punished by imprisonment and fine" an excellent example of the kind of statute which led to the doctrine that trades-unions were forbidden by the common law of England.
He rolled the writing-table up to the king; he placed the large sheet of white paper in order, and slipped the pen into the king's hand. "What shall I write?" asked the king, who, by the exertion of his night's excursion, and of his anger and vexation, began at length to be exhausted. "An order for the queen's imprisonment, sire." The king wrote.
Ramsdell and Dean were convicted of the assault on George, and sentence of two years in the State prison pronounced against them, the charge of stealing the team still hanging over their heads, in case George wants to press it when their term of imprisonment has ended, which is not probable.
They lifted the chains from my neck and threw them around the neck of ‘Abdu’l-Ḥamíd. That which he did to me was inflicted upon him. Now the position is precisely reversed. His days are spent in prison just as I passed the days in prison at Akká, with this difference: that I was happy in imprisonment. I was in the utmost elation because I was not a criminal.
I mean for debt alone, for mere, pure debt, without charge or suspicion of fraud or falsehood. Sir, it is about that length of time, I think, since you, who now preside over our deliberations, began here your efforts for the abolition of imprisonment for debt; and a better work was never begun in the Capitol. Ever remembered and ever honored be that noble effort!
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