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Updated: May 21, 2025
But there was one thing that prevented it from bein' a very happy though prosperous place, an' that was the coolies who had been hired in Java, for the only men that could be got there at first were criminals who had served their time in the chain-gangs of Batavia.
I was born under the Crab and therefore stand on many legs and own much property on land and sea, for the crab is as much at home on one as he is in the other. For that reason, I put nothing on that sign for fear of weighing down my own destiny. Bulldozers and gluttons are born under the Lion, and women and fugitives and chain-gangs are born under the Virgin.
Even if the old lady's husband had been a convicted felon, it was now long enough ago to enable him to think of him as he thought of the chain-gangs eight thousand miles off as the crow flies or would fly if he could go straight; the nearest way round mounts up to twelve. Anyhow, there was no more in the story than would clothe the widowhood of the upstairs tenant with a dramatic interest.
As for public scavengers humane at least there were none; for that salutary practice of putting rebellious Blacks into chain-gangs, and making them sweep the streets, which might be well done in London with Pickpockets and the like trash, to their souls' health and the benefit of the Body politic, did not then obtain.
"Yes," said Iola, "if we would have the prisons empty we must make the homes more attractive." "In civilized society," replied Dr. Latimer, "there must be restraint either within or without. If parents fail to teach restraint within, society has her check-reins without in the form of chain-gangs, prisons, and the gallows." The closing paper was on the "Moral Progress of the Race," by Hon. Dugdale.
The unwashed houses are filled with unwashed people; and the streets swarm with filthy beggars, and monks asking for alms in the name of the most blessed Virgin. The streets, thanks to the male and female chain-gangs, are kept quite clean. But all else is dirty.
We shall conclude this notice of Port Phillip with mentioning two important items in the estimates of its expenditure for 1842: Police and jails, 17,526l. 8s.; clergy and schools, 5350l.; and, as a commentary upon these disproportionate estimates, which are by no means peculiar to Port Phillip, the words of Sir George Arthur may be added: "Penitentiaries, treadwheels, flogging, chain-gangs, and penal settlements," says the late governor of Tasmania, "will all prove ineffectual either to prevent or to punish crime, without religious and moral instruction."
"From the unfortunate conditions which slavery has entailed upon that section of our country. I dread the results of that racial feeling which ever and anon breaks out into restlessness and crime. Also, I am concerned about the lack of home training for those for whom the discipline of the plantation has been exchanged for the penalties of prisons and chain-gangs.
The son of the Yorkshire blacksmith, the voyager in convict-ships, the chaplain of New South Wales in the days of rum and chain-gangs, was not the man to be troubled by nerves. But even Marsden was wakeful on that night. Thinking of many things thoughts not to be expressed the missionary paced up and down on the sea beach by which a tribe was encamped.
Nothing, I am sure, since the days of the Inquisition or still later, since the terrible punishments visited upon the insurgents of 1848 by the Austrian aristocrats has been so diabolical as the stocks and chain-gangs, as used by Wirz. At one time seven men, sitting in the stocks near the Star Fort in plain view of the camp became objects of interest to everybody inside.
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