eGold - A Nation's Heritage

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… many [police] having been accustomed to that system of convict discipline, it was not in their nature to perform their duty quietly without bouncing, bullying, and swearing at every one: to ask a man quietly whether he had a license was quite out of the question, it must be accompanied by some low-life expression, making, of course, respectable men extremely indignant, and if they remonstrated, they would handcuff them, and swear they resisted them in the execution of their duty.