At Halifax, he tried to desert, was caught, brought back and lashed to the "long tom" and received a flogging with the cat-o'-nine-tails.

After we had gotten back there, they took me and gave me another flogging to satisfy the madam.

Very often she would take a position at her window, in an upper story, and scold at her slaves while working in the garden, at some distance from the house, (a large yard intervening,) and occasionally order a flogging.

He said, his heavenly Master called him, and he would go though he expected a flogging.

Did I ever promise any disciple any recompense for his enlightenment and good deeds, save flogging, starvation, and burning?' "'Never, father," said he, 'and therefore thou hast had no follower of thy law save one, and he hath broken it.'

Whipping was so common an occurrence on this plantation, that it would be too great a repetition to state the many and severe floggings I have seen inflicted on the slaves.

I was deeply afflicted to find that he was on the point of undergoing a "law flogging for having run away."

after describing the flogging of a slave, in which his hands were tied together, and the slave hoisted by a rope, so that his feet could not touch the ground; in which condition one hundred lashes were inflicted, says: "I stood by and witnessed the whole without feeling the least compassion; so hardening is the influence of slavery that it very much destroys feeling for the slave.

The missionary had witnessed the floggings at this machine repeatedly, as it stood but a few steps from his house.

Such an accident as this, occurring during slavery, would have cost the negro a severe flogging.

When my father in his calm, quiet way, made up his mind and so expressed it, that he owed one of his boys a flogging, it became, as it were, a debt of honor, what, in modern parlance, would be termed a confidential debt, and he to whom it was acknowledged to be due, became a prefered creditor, and was sure to be paid.

Naturally I learned to lie, a thing contrary to my inclination and nature, and a torture to my conscience, but I had not the courage to meet the flogging, or the firmness to resist temptation and the persuasion of my young companions who rejoiced in a domestic freedom of which I knew nothing.

In payment for my services I received from the farmer two huge pumpkins, charged with which I hastened home, looking forward to my mother's praise and pleasure, but was met by her in the hall, strap in hand, with which she administered a solid flogging, explaining that my father was so angry at my being out at dinner that she gave me the punishment to forestall his, which would be, as I well knew, much severer.

Convinced that the man dare not disobey, he rode forward, and the farmer very soon continued his flogging of the boy.

The man, afraid of the strange armoured figure, told how this boy did his work badly in the field, and deserved his flogging; but the boy declared that the farmer owed him wages, and that whenever he asked for them his master flogged him.

At this juncture came the brutal and as I felt most unmerited flogging of which I have told the story earlier: this precipitated a decision which had been slowly forming from my conscientious worries.

He will never forgive that flogging I gave him.

It meant prize-money for his men, but their captain did not forget their craven conduct of the night, which had made him lose a bigger prize, and with the money they got a sound flogging.

To the Senate of the United States: I have the honor herewith to transmit to the Senate a communication from the Secretary of the Navy on the subject of the discipline of the Navy, suggesting such amendments of the law as may be necessary in consequence of the recent act abolishing flogging; to which I respectfully invite the immediate attention of Congress.

Speaking of the law which ordained the flogging of peasants for taxes, he wrote: "There is but one thing to saythat no such law can exist; that no ukase, or insignia, or seals, or Imperial commands can make a law out of a crime."

An inquiry was instituted, our dereliction was exposed, and we were promised a flogging.

Pious parents until within recent dates have regarded the flogging of children as absolutely a religious obligation, and many a tender mother has steeled her heart and strengthened her arm to give the blows which she regarded as essential to the spiritual well-being of her child.