{"id":11296,"date":"2021-03-22T11:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=3195"},"modified":"2021-03-07T16:09:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T22:09:04","slug":"william-howard-russell-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/william-howard-russell-5\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Be sure you examine the slave-pens. They will be afraid to refuse you, and you can tell the truth.&#8221;\u2014William Howard Russell Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>March 22d.<\/em>\u2013A snow-storm worthy of Moscow or Riga flew through New York all day, depositing more food for the mud. I paid a visit to Mr. Horace Greeley, and had a long conversation with him. He expressed great pleasure at the intelligence that I was going to visit the Southern States. &#8220;Be sure you examine the slave-pens. <em>They <\/em>will be afraid to refuse you, and you can tell the truth.&#8221; As the capital and the South form the chief attractions at present, I am preparing to escape from &#8220;the divine calm &#8221; and snows of New York. I was recommended to visit many places before I left New York, principally hospitals and prisons. Sing-Sing, the state penitentiary, is &#8220;claimed,&#8221; as the Americans say, to be the first &#8220;institution&#8221; of its kind in the world. Time presses, however, and Sing-Sing is a long way off. I am told a system of torture prevails there for hardened or obdurate offenders\u2013torture by dropping cold water on them, torture by thumbscrews, and the like\u2013rather opposed to the views of prison philanthropists in modern days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 22d.\u2013A snow-storm worthy of Moscow or Riga flew through New York all day, depositing more food for the mud. I paid a visit to Mr. Horace Greeley, and had a long conversation with him. He expressed great pleasure at the intelligence that I was going to visit the Southern States. &#8220;Be sure you examine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":66679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-my-diary-north-and-south-william-howard-russell"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Howard-Russell.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}