Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-12-10


There are class of people who are al
ways talking about their neighbors, and the
faults, vices and imperfections of their neigh
bors. They are never satisfied unless they
are minding the. business of their neighbors.
Their advice is all iortheir neighbors. They
have no sympathy except for the negroes of
Carolina. They live by lampooning the
Southern Shareholders. They are never SO
happy as when they can excite the prejudice
and hatred Of their devotees, against the So
ciety and institutions of another country
They seize upon gross exaggeration in NOR
ais, some unusual case of suffering, and there
upon weave a tale of horror, the moral of
which teaches that we are better than our
neighbors. Mrs. Stowe is the type Of this
class. She has genius, and has exercised it
to excite the prejudice and hatred of her
eountrymen, against their own brothers and
sisters. She never wrote novel with the
scene laid at home. She never pictured the
suffering and vice at her own door.
Had the corruption which is disclosed in
the following exposure in the public schools
of Boston, happend IN some southern city,
how the heart Of Mrs. Stowe would have
been shockedl ~
"From the Boston Times, 25th. nv
Corruption of Pupils IN one Of oar Pub
lic Schools.-Disg,tsting Deprauity.
/" 1t is no pleasant duty for us at any time,
to publish to the world the sins Of those who
violate the social and moral laws by licetiops-
ness but we do not remember that we ever
had more unpleasant task to perform than in
giving the following account of the comup-
ton of several girls pupils in one of our
Grammar Schools, and the depravity of those
who corrupted them. .iarsq m d
About week since, one Of the monitors
of the first class in a Public School for girls,
at the North End, happened by chance to
find written note on the floor OF the school,
which she read, and was so astonished at the
contents that she handed it to her female
teacher. The note was written by one OF
the pupils to another in the same class,
and revealed lin language too indecent for
publication) the astounding intelligence that
the writer of the note and five of her school
mates, girls between the ages of II and Is
years, had been seduced, and were in the dali
y habit of visiting certain places and indulg-
ING in the lowest conduct.
"The disclosure was most startling to the
teacher, and she instantly sent for the moth
ers of the depraved girls. AS soon as they
arrived an examination of the children
was made in an ante-room, and the girls
made full confession of every thing disclos-
ing the manner in which they were first in
duced to corrupt themselves, and their mo-
tives for continuing their disgusting licen-
tiousness. AS the girls related the deeds
which they had performed (deeds too shame
full and beastly to be mentioned), the an
guish of the mothers was most terrible; and
could they have reached the corruptors
of their children, their curses would have
blasted them-beasts as they are-forever.
g The six girls were subsequently taken to
their homes where further and separate inyes-
LEGATIONS were made, and it was pretty salts
factorily ascertained that five of the girls
had been introduced to their debauches, and
influenced by the sixth girl 1--WE have her
nancy, who, we are informed has been rear
cd among vile associates, and is naturally
inclined to vice. The girl has been dis
missed from school.
"Of the men, or beasts, who have corrupt
ed these girls, robbed them of their good
names, and thrown such blight upon the
the hopes and happiness of their parents,
what language is adequate to describe them
or to sufficiently condemn them. 1t is q
burning, blackening disgrace upon the city for
such men to live in it. And yet, we under
stand, the matter has undergone semi-of-
fetal investigation, and the conclusion arriv-
ed at is, that the whole affair had better be
hushed up. This may appear wise and le-
gal to others but not to us. We hold that
the men who have seduced these children
from the paths of virtue and then paid them
(the girls state that. they have been paid
about two dollars da week for their disgust
ing prostitution) to continue their sins to the
extent of the foulest pollution, should suffer,
and right smartly too. If three men. two
of them doing business in Hanover street,
and the third hackman in the employ of
one of the other two, are to 90 UNPUBLISHED,
after having corrupted six school girls (by
presents of trinkets and money! and attempt
ed to ruin as many more, then we had bet
ter open the doors of our penal institutions,
and relapse into that semi-civilized state
where men avenge their own injuries without
the assistance or interposition of law" it'al
Reader, this happened in Boston, and not
in Kansas. If it had happened in Kansas, it
,yonId have Hoo, oha rts,,J - al, a.