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 it does not correct, but multiply faults; that it often makes one who was good become bad; and that inſtead of ſucceeding as an example, it has a contrary effect, and will ultimately drive the idle to villainy, and the feeling to deſpair.

I would propoſe that no ſlave ſhould receive more than the legal ſufferance of nine and thirty lathes, (if the whip be thought indiſpenſably neceſſary, but I would recommend the ſubſtitution of ſome other puniſhment ) unleſs it be in the preſence of the doctor, (who