How the Union Was Carried

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How the Union Was Carried
J G Swift John Gordon Swift Macneill
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After various means being tried in vain to force him to confess where he had concealed them, he was placed upon the picket. There he had not remained half a minute when he told where five hundred might be found, and there they were found accordingly. " Lord Moira, in reply to the noble lord, said : " That was not the only instance in which torture had been applied to extort confessions of guilt. In a vast variety of other cases it had been resorted to to compel persons to 1 March 22, 1798. " Pa...rliamentary Debates, " vii. P. 755.
2 "Parliamentary Register, " viii. P. ' 301.
:! Woodfall's " Parliamentary Debates, " i. P. 544.
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criminate their neighbours, and in these cases the appli- cation of the torture was not for half a minute only, but for whole hours, and that at repeated times. On con- fessions so obtained it was impossible to form an accu- rate and wholesome judgment. " 1 This was not the first occasion on which Lord Clare defended the use of torture, nor was the instance of the blacksmith the only case of torture within his knowledge.


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