New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-10-17
nc cnmprlare sehool onsrase.
From he Boston. coamerelal.l

The school GOun1lbtee Oh ItInDIiuSS AilfS PaO-I |
lsheda defense Of the notorious girl-tloggng case
in one OF their schools, and, from their own state-
ments the affair appears to have been more brutal
than it was at first reported, Ihe facts relied
upon as the justification Of the principal OF the
school and his assistants, stamps them as hrutes
brutes in pantalaons and bTutes in crinoline had
they treated horse in New York as they i
confess to have treated 3 weak, sickly girl
three upon one--after conspiring together how
they should do 1.-THE members of the Society Tor
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals would have
had them prosecnted The report Of the school
committee on this case is q disgrace TO every one
who participated init.
The main points in the history. as given IN the
committees report, are stated by corresp spondent
Of the Transcript, sueeinctly as follows
Mr.. Roberts, the principal, ordered MISS fos, ,
ter to stand up, during the hours OF writing, until
she complied with requirement Of his. IN the
afternoon while the principal was absent, Miss
Sarah M Gray an assistant, saw MISS Eoster WINS
pering, and asked her if she whispered st
Miss Foster said yes
q Miss c. What do you think of Whlsp pering II
She answered u don't know
q Miss GRAY thought this defiant, and sent her TO
the recitation-reom and directed her to hold out
her hand for punishment with rattan, MISS
Foster refused to do so and Miss Gray concluded
to suspend her attempt and wait for Roberts, tell
ing MISS Foster to stay IN the elsatlonIroenl'
Miss Gray and Roberts then held a consultation,
while Miss Foster was ont recess, at which Il
was decided that she must be whipped, as 1t
and have pernicous effect on the particular pu-
pil' It was arranged that Miss Gray should do the
whipping, and, fnecessary. as 1t was 1t
| would be- she should call another. 1t was also az
| ranged that she should exchange the rattan for
| Robet trsoWn instrument; (as appeared atthe public
| examination this lesembled chaise trace two
pieces Of leather sewed together, two inches wide,
thicker at the butt than at the handle, and about
1 eighteen inches long
= Accordingly after the recess, Miss Foster was
again caiiedsinto the room, and, after some talk
/ the contest was renewed-Miss Gray striking and
| Miss Foster resisting. Not being satisfied with
/ her success, she called Miss Hodges VINO was
4 standing BY ready for that purpose, to aid her.
/ Miss Hodges seized aud held the hands while bliss
4 Gray continued the whipping. Fhe mingled
i sounds of tile struggling. blows and screams at
tracted tile attention of Roberts, in another room,
j ana as they also toccasioned derisye laughter on
the part OF some Of the boys, the principal or
dered them to perform amerching movement
4 to the music Of the piano, while he himself re.
4 paired to the scene. He seized Miss Foster and
3lheldher with such violence that her mother test
fled that for four days she bore upon her person
the marks of the struggle. He directed Miss Gray
ITO punish her till her cries stopped it was done
Roberts still holding her. He then left the room
I The two others remained. Miss Grey, not sat
4 sfiedwith what had already transpired, said sht
musbbe obeyed equally with the principal IN h
J, absence, and insisted upon whipping her again
and did so It was the third and last time. Mis-
!, | Foster was subdued; she submitted--she held on
. her hand The committee characterize the blow
+ as moderate; snot severe light and declare
that there was no improper motive on the teach
ers' part Such are the facts detailed in de
scFiption occupying more than four pages ot INT
. defense They are not all that appear in the re
8 port of the former examination which have nov
: been denied by the committee; that Miss Feste
was strapped from the middle to the corner OF tht
room; that Miss Hodges confessed she tried Il
: cover Miss Fosters mouth with her hand; tina
f Miss Foster had been a sickly girl and had in con
$ sequence been absent from school three-quarter
i of the time for year-a point that the COMMITTED
" forgot to mention in their attempt to make th
= class in which she was tell against her; tha
Roberts, standing in loco PARENTS, when tn
4 boys were hearing the screams OF agony Of thel
t fellow pupil, told them he would give them diff
/. ferent kind of nlusie-H
What an exhibition is here given of a combina
ton of brute strength against young lady, wht
was first whipped and subdued by q man, assisted
by two 6rmales, and then whipped again by ont
of the females, on her own responsibility to asser
her own dignity End the case occurred at the
South and the outrages thataFe here unblushinglJ
confessed to have been perpetrated in any of tht
Southern cities, the same committeeman woulC
have exhausted language in pity for the poor suE
ferer and in denuneiation Of those who inflicted
the barbaEity.
It Is said the committeeman uphold the doing
of the master and his female furies, because it
essential to sustain the discipline of the school
The POSITIONS pretense. 1t is q fraud. The.
deny the force of the reasoning in any other case
They are mostly, If notall, radicals and seven OF
j of the ten are clergymen, who, while they wear
lpatience with their romantic grefs over suppose
outrages in intersections ofthe country, are guilt
o Of lending the sanction of their names to brutf
/ proceeding which has inflicted permanent njur
I / upon the reputation Of Massachusetts;
/. The committee have ordered 1000 copies c
/ their defense Of brutality to be circulated it
3 participating in publishing their own shame.
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