38 



i 



it on the ground*. Unwind the chain around 

 his neck, and drag him by it. Sir, I mast insist 

 on your literal compliance with my instructions 

 here, and that you shrink not from the labour 

 (for it is a labour) of thus dragging him back. 

 He is a criminal now; and may readily become 

 one of the most desperate order: this unbridled 

 violence will lead to deeds of blood ; and then 

 - ah, Sir! they must be extinguished even 

 before they exist, if you mean to spare your- 

 self the slavery, and save him from the horrors 

 of many a future laceration. Lug him then at 

 the chain's end, and rate him all the way with 

 " Ah ! you brute ! how dare you ? how dare 

 you?" in the severest and harshest tone of 

 reproach, in order fully to awaken the sense of 

 crime : stagger him also with a few throttling 

 jerks upon his collar; and thus conduct him, 

 with every mark of your extreme displeasure, 

 directly back to the identical spot where he was 

 when the challenge of down charge was given 

 to him, in order to make him understand this 

 lesson. Sir, it is that of the highest importance 

 in the whole of my system of education; the 

 great hinge upon which all its future retinements 



* We shall return to it presently, at seek dead, after having 

 given the necessary correction, in order to complete the 

 present lesson. 



