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upon the qualities of individual men ; it must be provided fur by the general system of military and naval rewards and punishments . Now rewards , in the English army , there are none ; for no soldier can rise beyond the rank of a sergeant As for punishments , for the greater military offences only three are possible : 1 st , The offender must be shot ; or , 2 dly , Flogged ; or , 3 dly , Dismissed from the service .
Now this last , which in almost all other armies is a punishment of extreme severity , with us is a reward . The soldier is but too happy to get his discharge , and would commit offences purposely for a very slight chance of obtaining it . Until this is remedied , discipline in the army never can by possibility be kept up but by shooting or flogging . The
men will be either shot , flogged , or undisciplined , until dismissal from the army shall be a punishment and not a privilege : and a privilege it will be until the pay of the common soldier be raised beyond what any taxes which the British people will pay afford the means of , or until , as in France or Prussia , every common soldier shall have the possibility before him of rising to be colonel of his regiment .
Now , as the people of England have neither the passion of equality which distinguishes the French , nor the passion of justice which has hitherto distinguished no nation , this most desirable result will only be brought about through the passion of humanity ; which , by not allowing soldiers to be either shot or flogged , will compel recourse to the only means of government fit for rational beings ; and will secure , at length , for that important portion of the people the privileges of men , by not
tolerating that they should any longer be treated like brutes . We therefore rejoice from our souls that the public loathing at the practice of flogging is becoming too intense to be resisted , and we most earnestly hope that every word which fell from Mr . Eilice on the insubordination of the army is literally true . We trust that the army is , and will progressively become more and more undisciplined , until the time comes when
from sheer necessity , on the failure of all other means of keeping the soldiers in subjection , the oligarchy must perforce loose their hold of what will be the last and most cherished of their monopolies . They will part with it as with their life ' s blood , but ere many years shall have passed over their heads , they may rely upon it , it will be theirs no longer .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1834, page 600, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2636/page/70/
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