Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-08-26
GRIMES.

4 KECa NfAAS
cd, or to point put the deepest wrongs
in society, we may find ourselves IN
doub, as to the selection, or we may be
ma, with a "hush" from Madame Pro-
priety. W. believe that if our clergy
men, all Of them, would speak plainly
in warning and reproof of the Crimson
Crimes, those which have been duly
c~atalogued as such, they would be doing
far more good than in dealing in gen.
eral, discursive talk about the wicked
ness of this world. 1t is not true, as is
sometimes alleged, that the false mod
esty-barrier has been broken down so
that the worst sins of RIGHTEOUSNESS can
be publicly named and condemned by
those who should describe and denounce
them. But we rejoice and know that
some men have from the pulpit aud
through respectable journals braved an
unworthy sentiment Of "modesty," so
called, and for the good Of the people
spoken the most needed words Of truth
in regard to certain crimes that have,
in America, in a comparatively recent
period, grown to be amazingly prevalent.
Il has been asserted that in old Mas
sachusetts, even, the State that once
Justly boosted Of the superior average
morality of its people, the crime Of child
murder is very common; that the native
English race is actually dying out and
being supplsnted through the work of
the a~bortionist. 1t is said nov land
the census shows it, to be rarely the
case that a Yankee family Of this gen
Grafton, in New England, consists Of
more than four children, while the ma
jority Of families do not consist Of more
than two children, and n or both
Of these offspring of impaired constitu-
tioual vigor by reason Of injuries to the
mother, caused by the effects Of forced,
premature deliveries. 1t is well known
that two generations since, the average
family in New England and the Middle
States was not less than six children,
and the growing households were
not infrequently composed of so many
as fourteen healthy children. There
has been no mistaking the cause Of this
decrease in the number Of American
children, born to each family, for the
truth in this respect has been long
known to the medical profession, the
honorable members Of which have vainly
protested against the murderous prac-
tice to which we now allude. The for
eign element in the East is becoming
largely predominant, in represented
blood of vigorous youth. Rev. DR..
Todd, Congregationalist, attributes this,
in great part, to the instructions or
charges given by the Catholic priests in
regard to the crime indicated in the
giving of which, says DR.. Todd, "they
have shown'a courage and christian
faithfulness which should make our
Protestant brethren Of the pulpit blush
for shame"
But if this crime 'p~revails" in the
Atlantic States, what may be called its
prevalence on this Coast? A large num-
Der of leading physicians in San Fran
cisco, and Doctors Of very extensive
practice in this State, have told us that
applications are made to them almost
daily for instructions and prescriptions
to procure abortion. And they daily
hear the exclamation from women who
are accounted "most respectable" and
who are church members az will not
have any more children if can helpit,"
or, al will not have any children"
And from the fact that few who make
such remarks fail to prevent farther &C
c~essions to their families, is reasonably
presumed by the physicians referred to,
that they whose request We have named
find a quack, or obtain information,
that enables them to accomplish their
announced purpose. It ought to be
said here, to their great and lasting
credit, that regularly educated physi-
clans, with few exceptions, utterly re-
fuse to aid in the killing of unborn in
FAINT children, when the life of the moth
er does not depend upon procuring pre-
mature parturition. And hence it is
that beaStly quacks, men and women,
have had the monopoly in this deyilish
business.
DR.. Todd well remarks, that the moral
sense of our people must be raised to an
appreciation and coudemning of this
crime as Murder; and that the doctors
and doctrssses who give aid or encour-
sgement to the practice should be dealt
with under a severe criminal statute.
It would be impossible to here euumer-
ate the long train Of evils that inevitably
follow such a wicked habit among the
people. Says DR.. Bigelow at cannot
be concealed, that unless this nefarious
practice is exposed and abandoned, the
Norman Saxon element will DO eradi.
Gated from the land" Said an eminent
physician of San Francisco quite re-
Gently: al believe that if tho truth was
known to the whole Of our people as to
what extent this crime [abortion1 OBJ
tains in this city, the popular moral
sense would be so startled and shocked
as of itself to influence a great abate-
ment of the evil. If I were to say in
what proportion of professedly Christian
families voluntary abortion is regularly
practicable save from the immediate
effects of which, regular physicians are
called to atteud-I should probably be
denounced as a slanderer."
The crime Of enticing young girls in
to deus Of prostitution is n which the
law in the majority of the States takes