Conceived in Liberty Volume 2 - Ludwig von Mises Institute

his guilt was sentenced to the pillory, and on two successive days was tied
to a cart's tail and dragged around the city, whipped forty-one times, and
then imprisoned until he could pay the costs of prosecuting him. The trial
judge, Robert Asheton, instructed the jury herewith: "It is greatly impudent
and presumptuous for private persons to meddle with matters of so high a
nature; and it will be impossible to preserve the peace unless subjects will
quietly submit themselves to those whom Providence has placed over them
. . . what severity can be too harsh for those who thus despise dominions,
and speak evil of dignitaries ?"*
*lbii., pp. Î0-J1.
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