Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1881 — Anecdote of Tom Corwin. [ARTICLE]

Anecdote of Tom Corwin.

When quite a young man he was elected a member of the general assembly of the state of Ohio, and early in the. teteion he brought in a bill for the destruction of the public whipping post. He made an earnest speech in favor of the measure, to which an elderly member replied as follows: “Mr. Speaker, the gentleman is not as old as I am, and has not "seen as mych of the practical operation of the Sstem of punishment which he desires to abolish. When I lived in Connecticut, if a fellow stole a horse, or cut up some antics, we used to tie him up and give him a real good thrashing, and he always cleared ri zht o i*t. y. e n « ver saw anything more I’to the best way of getting rid of the rogues that ever was tried, and without expense to the state/ Mr.-Corwin, whe never foiled to carry his point by a joke, if the argubeen puzzled to account for the vast emigration from Connecticut te the west, but the gentleman last up has explained it to my satisfaction.” It is almost needless to say that Mr. Corwin ’s bill passed by an overwhelming majority. “ ‘ Mina tr and Jackson, Jim, are to have new government