The book How the Union Was Carried was written by author J G Swift John Gordon Swift Macneill Here you can read free online of How the Union Was Carried book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is How the Union Was Carried a good or bad book?
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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. 7o How the Union was carried. 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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