Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-06-27

!, ey into our hands, that we cannot count
before him, without suffusing our cheeks
with crlmson2 money too, which we must
pay to merchants and their clerks, while
we stand by and see it examined, with
full knowledge OF its exposed and denuded
embellishments.
Must we then receive our change, in
the same polluted currency. and pocket
this outrage upon all our feelings without
apparent notice?
Where, permit me to inquire, is the
high moral principle, where is the gal
lantry Of your sex, that thus compels US TO
become the Uenders of indecent pictures
or else to relinquish the privilege of trans
acting that business, which most Of US can
best accomplish, and many MUST attend to
| Tor ourselves?
Where is the delicacy, or the moral
principle of those who control this mat
ter? Is there no need of the action of
moral Reform" in this thing!
fOrbear to press upon your notice its
injurious tendency on The minds of young
men-ths topic, full of Interest as it is,
leave with the friends of virtue among
your sex But | beseech you in the name
and 10 behalf of thousands Of my coun
try-women, to hold up to public reproba-
ton an evil from which we shrink, in
/ stinctireiy, as impure-contaminating-
polluting.
And to the authors Of it, in behalf of
our sex, we would saV-Lf that Of which
we complain is the result Of thoughtIess-
ness, we beg you reflect upon and correct
it: as you value our comforts, cease We
pray you, TO trampIe on woman's best
feelings-as the offence is without temp
! ;rtion, let your abandonment be prompt
a.d endurng-and as you would not b.
found at last, TO have scattered frebrands,
arrows and DEATH" even thoughin sport,
see to it that your skirts are clear of this
sin. A WIFE AND MOTHER
From the Jour. Of Commerce.
I1IMOD EST VIGNETTEs.
Messrs Editors-Under this title you
Eave this morning an excellent article By
" 4 WIFE and Mother" from the Cleve
land Observer.
1t is not the first time that woman has
been compelled to resist the depredatiors
! of those who should be her protectors
If there is any class in the community
who should demand specie, it is our wives
and daughters, until we give them a de
cent paper currency.
| Our Presidents, Cashiers, and Direct
ors Of Banks have wives and daughters
; whose delicacy they would not trIfie with
1t may be that they have sons of frmeI
texture than the sons of other citizens
r but where is the youth who does not neec
! every shield possible for his virtue2
Whether the Bank gentlemen or the
! Artists are most at fault in this matter,
will not decide.
} am aware that an Artist long accus
toned to drawing after naked statues
may with plausibiity affirm that he IS no
}, conscious Of impure feelings in viewing
= forms entirely exposed. So 1t may b.
] with The Anatomist and Physician, whose
r professions often bring them where thu
common eye must not obtrude. But be
t cause these scenes to professional Artist
), and others need not be injurious, it doe
It not follow that such forms, even Wlthou
g the least wanton air, could safely be pre-
b scented TO the public gaze.
Y The Old World has tried the expeli
r ment, and is corrupted. Our Bank Not
|, Engravers are men of responsibility, an
: it cannot be supposed that they have In
n tended to promote RIGHTEOUSNESS, but the
l. have carried the matter quite too far.
y 1t is indeed high time for a reform
IS and | rejoice that great responsibility
going to rest upon one man at this me
Re ment in relation to this question.
of 1t appears by the late General Bnnkin
in Act, that the Comptroller OF the State, tn
y Hon. Mr. FIagg. has it in his power
decide what shall be the form Of Note
for Banks under the new Act; and
trust, as the protector Of virtue, that h
= will veto all immodest Vignettes.
A HUSBAND AND FATHER.