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The Daily Dispatch: may 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], The proclamation of a bully. (search)
ame in possession of the article, he said that a white man had given it to him. This improbable story led to his detention, and the fact that the chain had been stolen leaked out. Its owner identified it. The accused was sent before the Hustings Court for trial. Aleck, a slave, was arraigned for going without a pass, and ordered to be licked in the most approved and orthodox style by the sitting magistrate, who generally frowns in virtuous indignation against all petty offenders. Sylvester, a military nigger, arrested for carrying a shooting iron contrary to law, was likewise ordered a tickling. His pistol was confiscated. John Moore, whose troubles with his better half have been adverted to on a previous occasion, was up again — this time at the instance of his wife, who was ready to swear to sundry physical manifestations by the defendant against her person, in contravention of law and a just regard for the rights of society, as at present constituted. As the presid