Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-06-30

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aud transfer them 10 the columns Of THE !
WORLD for they are as applicable to certain !
grades Of society with us as England. 1t
is to the low and unjust views which prevail
among us especially IN fashionable and
wealthy circles, that corrupt and dangerous
men are often received into the bosom Of
cultivated and influential families, not in
ignorance Of their infamous character, but
in spit Of it, and often to The destruction of
domestic peace and happiness.
"The remarks which from time to time
we have had occasioned to make on the
Social Evil, have elected from some of our
correspondents a request that, while the
softer sex are not sparedin our exposure OF
this vice. the other parties TO the crime
should not 60 free from the condemnation
that belongs to them. Our sympathieS,
they say, are appealed to on behalf of the
unfortunate females who inlest our streets
after dusk. They need it, indeed but this
is only half the work. Let society be so
educat ed that it will scorn, deteSt, and ex-
clude the wretch who has seduced, betrayed
and abandoned weak woman Happy
indeed will the change be that shall pass on
I society when it shall practically concur in
this view of the question. But this con
sderation is suggestive of some reHec
tion. t." f.. t-a
ut would appear to be a vain expecta-
ton that society in general will ever regard !
the guilt Of which we speak equally shared |
by both sexes. Nor can it be denied that |
there is at least some plausible foundation
for thus discriminating. Regarded in its |
purely abstract character, she sin must be
considered the same in the offended parties.
is But obvious as this fact may be. there is no
t. mstery iu the other fact, that female dere.
LECTION has always been more scveraly con-
demned. And the reason appears to be
y this, that modesty, though binding on each
sex, is more emphaticalIy the beauty and
T. glory of the woman. 1t is that in which
2 her whole character, more completely mer-
ges so that the loss of it, if not in itself
> more criminal argues more perverse re.
Y bellion against those principles which nature
n has given her as her ornament and her
!. brightest dowry. Nothing is more obvious
We than that a certain license of conversation
--we use the term in no bad seUse-univer-
sally allowed to the male, would be deemed
utterly Incompatible with the sober, graces
Of the female character, though in point OF
rigid morality no more offensive in the one
case than in the other. The very position,
therefore, of the female seems TO involve
this consequence, that her fall from virtue
brings Wthit a BEAVER retribution.
o. "But let all this be granted does it
3 follow that society is gutless in drawing @
aDide distinction between the two? Here
tv. is the error of which we are reminded, and
it is an error which, viewed under its mild
est aspect, must be denounced as shame
aud scandal to civilized and ChristianZec
Sed community. Worst of all, we may looh
!. upon the higher classes of English society
e ost as most indugenttothis wiekednesS They
seem to have lost all sense of its moral tur
. ptude. Imagine young gentleman pro
! posing for the hand Of the daughter of SOM
p proud and wealthy ariStocrat. There is bu
too much reason TO say that in the majorit.
n of cases where flaw in his pedigree or
ard deficiency in his fortune, would at once b
on fatal to the projected alliance, the know
and ledge that his lcentious habits had blaSte
ieel the peace OF more than one innocent family
X would be no barrier whatever to his hOpeI
i is an indisputa6le fact that III no seuS
Eng does person lose caste in the higher circles
nay that with many he would posiliyeI
m stand on a better footing, as a smart fellO
,,.- of the world.
lone "But what revelation OF human deprav
ty have we in snch fact as this Wha
a calm and contemptnous ignoring Of ever
; on essentially moral principle, every sound an
scripturaI idea OF good and evil, that ma
US who has deliberately brought shame au
rr;, int horat,fnpa tah hla n
400 happy household should 90 at large with OF
IN brand upon his forehead, or the suferip
of any damage to hi; position in life
The victim of his wickednesS may hay
become an outcast from home, friends, al
,s; kindred, may have plunged into systemat
ated and shameless vice as desperate refug
Fl ON starvation; or gone in frenzied mise
to the grave OF a suicide while he, Il
be- cold blooded author Of all this moral al
pre- social wreck, is just as honorable aud r
..,,. spectacle as ever Such is the code
-, society, as compared with the code
alter tier Christianity
and and 1--WE do not see much remedy for tn
ona state of things, except in the increased po
,s. er and fidelity Of the public ministry.
matter how senseless and absurd, how
{. .,. grading and heaiheniSll, may be the ma
= inns which regulate "high life," they wi
bind their victims with adamantine chair
which nothing but the searching power
! Gospel truth will effectually snap asundt
-, In fact, it is one of the main departmer
",nI %r', of an efficient pulpit instruction to hold
in their open and undisguiSed wickedne
those conventional laws which, with certa
classes, are allowed to put direct neg
q ,ss6n IN tive on the panest doctrines of Christi
morality. As long as guilt and villain
how unscrupulouslY INDUCED, in, are aIlo
he ed to be called by their proper names, t
and particular duty to which we now allu
will be needless. But when q differe
standard of morality becomes virtually r,
Horse - - II, - or H. ,ror,t ,,i,
His OguiLtui uhu "ueh OuC VI lHc "OlSt '"
Gray that can hlackpn the sOul is Hiukcd at a
Post :, a -. -
For held OF small account by tue very peTSl
e his - .; r,attare of ;,,Gnitoty leo cou