The vital problem of municipal reform is not the shattering of the ring, the overturning of the boss, the gagging of a few loud tongues.

He retired, gagging and coughing.

He might have had to resort to the crude method of tying Hill up, gagging him, and leaving him in the flat.

Mr. Palfrey's resolution was also lost; but the boldness with which Giddings and others avowed their opinions, and the freedom of speech which they used on the subject of slavery, afforded abundant proof that the gagging system which had prevailed so long in Congress had come at last to an end.

On entering the rooms, we perceived that the poor girl was lying on the ground, while one of the men was endeavoring to stifle her cries by either gagging or suffocating her, though in the way he was doing it, the latter would have soon been the case.

The queer-smelling smoke drifted across to Sinclair; for a moment he was on the verge of attempting a quick leap and a tying and gagging of the Oriental, but he desisted.

These quarrels, apparently, drove him from his native land; but his successors took warning from his exampleone of them indicates very plainly, that he has no desire whatever to incur an involuntary gagging like his colleague Naevius.

One or two of the Crows put up a good fight, and managed to squirm away from the gagging boxing-gloves and let out a yelp; but the heavy door of the gymnasium kept the secret mum, and there was something so surprising about the ambuscade in the dark that the Dozen soon had the half-dozen securely gagged and fettered.

"NOT SO MUCH 'GAGGING,' MY LAD.

Those who did not swallow all that the English tories chose to pour down their throats, took the pillules Napoleons without gagging.

Thomas N. Slave Auctioneer Gagging of slaves Galloway flogging Jo.

Mr. Hawes, of Ky., now essayed to restore tranquillity, by gagging the uneasy multitude; but, alas!

Why, then, we ask, with such authorities and precedents before them, do the slaveholders in Congress, regardless of their oaths, strive to gag the friends of freedom, under pretence of allaying agitation?

Pinckney's Gag was passed May, 1836, by a majority of 51 Hawes's Jan. 1837, 58 Patton's Dec. 1837, 48 Atherton's Dec. 1838, 48

No less than 49 northern members of the administration party voted for the Atherton gag, while only 27 dared to record their names in favor of Johnson's; and of the representation of SIX States, every vote was given against the rule, without distinction of party.

The following twenty-eight members from the Free States voted in the affirmative on the recent GAG RULE.

When the right of petition shall be broken downwhen no whisper shalt be heard in Congress in behalf of human rightswhen the press shall be muzzled, and the freedom of speech destroyed by gag-laws, then will the slaveholders announce, that TRANQUILLITY IS RESTORED TO THE PUBLIC MIND!

Thomas N. Slave Auctioneer Gagging of slaves Galloway flogging Jo.

Mr. Hawes, of Ky., now essayed to restore tranquillity, by gagging the uneasy multitude; but, alas!

This led to the scheme of stealing his own mother to be his instructor, which they effected in the most masterly style, binding and gagging her in her own house, and carrying her from a populous hamlet in the fair forenoon, without having been discovered.

As far as he was concerned they would not have had to take the precaution of gagging him, or of bandaging his eyes, or of binding him.

A horrible gagging sound betrayed his efforts for breath.

" Griffin repeated very much what he had said before, merely changing the language, and received the same gagging sounds for an answer.

A LAND OF SUBSTITUTES XIV THE GAGGING OF LIEBKNECHT XV PREVENTIVE ARREST XVI POLICE RULE IN BOHEMIA XVII SPIES AND SEMI-SPIES XVIII

If that is really so, why does the Deutschland's cargo consist mainly of these three commodities? CHAPTER XIV THE GAGGING OF LIEBKNECHT