The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1817-03-17

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sent brother officer to inform her she
must quit his residence, and take lodg- /
sDgs in vain she demonstrated (; in
vain reminded him of her former puri-
~, and the promise that betrayed it.
She was literally turned out at nightfal,
to find whatever refuge the God of the
shelterlcss might provide for her /! De.
serted and disowned. how naturally did
she turn to the once happy home whose
inmates she had disgraced, and whose
protection she bad forfeited! How ma.
turally did she think the once familiar
and once welcome avenues looked
frowning as she passed !! how natural
ly did she linger, like a rcposeless
spectre, round the memorials of her
living happiness! Her heart failed her
where parents smile had ever
cheered her, she could not face the
glance OF shame, or sorrow or disdain !;
she returned to seek her seducer's pi-
~, even ill the morning. Good God |!
how can disclose it ! The very guard
had orders to refuse her access even
by the rabble soldiery she was cast into
the street, amid the nights dark hor-
rors, the victim of her own credulity,
the outcast of another's crime, to seal
her guilty woes with suicide, or lead a
living death amid the tainted sepul-
Chres OF Promiscuous prostitution
Far, far am from sorry that it was so.
Horrible beyond thought as is this ag-
gravation, l only hear In it the voice of
she Deity in thunder upon the crime.
Yes, yes, it is the present God, armins
the vicious agent against the vice, and
terrifying from its conception of the
,turpitude to which it may lead But
what aggravation does seduction need?
Vice is its essence, lust its end, hypoc.
ricy its instrument, and innocence its
victim. Must detail its miseries
Who depopslstes the home of virtue,
making the child an orphan, and the
parent child!ess Who wrests its
crutch from the tottering helplessness
of piteeus age Who wrings its hap.
piness from the heart OF youth Who
shocks the vision of the public eye I
Who iniects your very thoroughiares
with disease, disgust, ohscenity and
profaDeness Who pollu,es the harm.
less scenes where modesty resorts for
mirth, and toll for recreation, with
sights that stain the pure, and shock
The sensitive Are these the phrases
of an interested advocacy Is there
one amongst you so fortunate OF seclud.
ed as not TO have wept over the wreck
of health and youth, and loneliness, and
talent, the fatal trophies of the seducer's
triumph? Some form, perhaps, where
every grace was squandered, and every
beauty paused to waste its bloom, and
every beam of mind, and tone Of m elo-
dy, poured their profusion upon the
public wonder; all that parents pray
erycouid ask, or a lovers alteration fan.
-cy; in whom every pollution looked so
lovely, that nature would have made
her more than human Is there an
eplthet too vilL for such spoiler Is
there an epithet too sevree for such de-
prayl,y? know not upon what COM
pIaisance this English seducer may
calculate on jury of this country
know not, indeed, whether he may
not think he does your wives and
daughters some honor by their con-
tamination. But know we'll what a
reception he wSuld experience from
Jury Of his ewn country. / know, that
in such general execration do they
view this crime, they think no posi-
ale plea palliation. Ne--not the ma
Inred age of the seduced not her
previous pCotrACted absence from her
parents; not Leyity approaching al.
most 10 absolute guilt not an indis-.
erection in the mother, that bore every
colour of connivance and in this,o OPT
nicn they have been supported By all
the venerable authorities with whom
age, integrity, and learning, have adorn-
cd the Judgment seat.
Gentlemen, come armed with these
authorities, in the case Of TuIIidge v.
Wade My lord, it appeared the per-
son seduced was thirty years of age,
and long absent from home yet, on a
motion 10 set aside the verdict for ex-
cessive damages, what was the Lam
guage of chief justice Wiimotl t" /
regret" SAID he, that they were not
greater though the plaintiff S loss did
not amount 10 twenty shillings, the Jury
were right in giving ample damages
because such actions should be encou.
ragged, for examples snke" Justice
Give wished they had givea twice the
sum and in this opinion the whole
bench concurted. There was a case
where the girl was Of mature age,