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Updated: May 11, 2025
There hobbles Goody Foster, a sour and bitter old beldam, looking as if she went to curse, and not to pray, and whom many of her neighbors suspect of taking an occasional airing on a broomstick. There, too, slinking shamefacedly in, you observe that same poor do-nothing and good-for-nothing whom we saw castigated just now at the whipping-post.
He was conscious that he must keep himself in hand; the stocks and the whipping-post were ever ready for the rebellious apprentice, and a single hasty act might imperil his whole future. But as he lay awake that night in his attic bedchamber he resolved that this should be his last week's work in Messer Hugolin's tan-pits.
It was considered so bold an achievement that its fame spread far and wide. The Spaniards began to tremble at the prowess of a Prince whom they had affected to despise. The very fact of the passage was flatly contradicted. An unfortunate burgher at Amsterdam was scourged at the whipping-post, because he mentioned it as matter of common report.
The pillory is certainly a terrible and cruel punishment, and, while I heartily favor the whipping-post, I think this savage punishment should be abolished. "Since writing the above, I have heard that a colored woman was convicted of murder in the second degree last May, and on Saturday the 17th of that month received sixty lashes on her bare back, and stood in the pillory one hour.
"Fair?" shouted Phaon, dashing down the dice again, "they are loaded! Lack-shame! Villain! Whipping-post! Tomb-robber! Gallows-bird! You changed them when you pretended to inspect them! Give me my money, thief, or " and he took a menacing but unsteady step toward Agias. The young Greek was ready for the emergency. He knew that Phaon was almost overcome with his wine, and had no dread of the issue.
You will take care of him; I know that, and better than if I were there. Good-by. Mostyn folded the sheet and thrust it into his pocket. Going to a window, he stood looking out on the dusty street. Drays and cabs were trundling by. Had his back been bared to the thonged scourge of the public whipping-post and the blows been falling under the strokes of a giant, he could not have cringed more.
"Why, massa, him great t'ing dat-what big old massa judge send buckra-man to get whip, so color foke laugh when 'e ketch 'im on de back, ca' bim; an' massa wid de cock-up hat on 'e head put on big vip jus' so," said the old negro. It was the whipping-post, where white men, for small thefts, were branded with ignominy and shame. "Are you a slave, old man?" inquired the Captain.
"No lies, no roguery, or I'll have you at the whipping-post," roared the governor. "Speak up. Where are the parties?" "Near about here," stammered Louis, "and you may ask your new turn-coat." I was betrayed! Betrayed and trapped; but he should not go free! I would have shouted out, but Hamilton's hand silenced me. "Here!" exclaimed the astounded governor. "Go call that young Nor'-Wester!
"But you, Billy, don't appear to have suffered much from the fare you describe." "I have had time to pick up again," answered Billy; "but I assure you that for many weeks afterwards I was as thin as a whipping-post."
We advise the people who live in Brooklyn, Jersey City and up-town New York to go on an exploration. Go to No. 1 Broadway and remember that George Washington and Lord Cornwallis once lived there. Go to the United States Treasury, on Wall Street, and remember that in front of it used to stand a pillory and a whipping-post.
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