The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1869-08-04
From the New York Herald.(
The Masculine El0mcnt II
Massachusetts Still Lives.

MaSSaenuSoktS Stlll LlYCS.
In the early part Of March last
wc published an occount Of n reg
ular prize fight between two wo.
mon in the suburbs Of Boston. The
details Of tho affair was shocking to
human nature and disgusting in tho
extreme. It was to be hoped that
the notorioty given to tho abomi-
nabie spectacle would havo so
shocked tho femo.masculine olo-
mont in the moral region in which
1T occurred as to have doterred it
from encouraging another exhi-
bition of tho kind. But it seems
that this hope was not to be re-
allied. BY dispatch from Spring
field, Mass, received yesterday,
we learn that prizo fight &C.
cured near thu city, which was
witnessed by three hundred spec
tators, zone. third of whom were
women"
Without stopping to enquire
into tho character of tho latter
portion Of this delectablc audience,
we feel justified, in Wow Of tho
number of womon's rights female
suffrage and other strong-minded
womon's conventions rcccntly
held at tho "Hub," to put q cor
tain Interpretation upon tho whole
disgraceful affair. 1t affords an
other evidence OF the downward
tendency of female morality in Il
section Of tho country that has
plumod itself upon its righteous
ness; that has presumed to set
itself up as the exomplar for all
that is chaste, modest, pure and
noble in the feminine character
that has sent missionaries among
the benighted heathen, for the
purpose Of proffering the cup Of
grace to thoir lips, and instilling
the sentiments Of sanity love and
virtue into their hearts that hus
fillod the schoolhouses Of the South
with Now England school marms,
to teach the little niggors their A,
B, C's and to learn them for tho
first time who their Mixer WAS,
as well as to impress upon their
delicate understandings the now
we'll established axiom that q
white man is as good US q niggcr,
if ho only behaves himself" Alas /
that it shonld be so. Alas that
tho sentiments of tho noblo heart
cd matrons Of tho Revolution-of
tho days Of the Adamsos, tho Han
cocks, tho Otiscs-should bo
obliged to give way before Attil-
an career Of batch ofbospoctaclcd
old spinstcrs and burnt-grass wild
ows, who are now endeavoring to
mould the pure thoughts Of tho
young females Of tho rising geno-
ration into q hideous masculinity,
and to encourage them TO aspire
to tho places and to tho preroga-
tivos, and to don tho toggcry Of
those who, with n few honorable
exceptions, arc untitled TO wear
tho brooches in this our day.
Verify, things are looking bad
for morality in Massachusetts,
suppose Gilmore sets about got
ting up jubilee in honor Of tho
return Of morality to New Eng
land ? The day may be far dis
tant, but that's no matter. It
elbows tho necessity Of beginning
the undertaking ill tho sooner.
Let tho rallying cries bo "No
moro female prize fights in Mas
sachusetts," "Hurrah for the rc-
turn Of morality to New England" 4"
Seriously, rs the case now stands,
tho authorities should take earn
est and decided steps to stop
these inhuman exhibitions-it is
degrading to boasts to call them
boastly-elso tho consequences
will be lamentable not only to the
morals of Now England mon but
to tho virtue Of tho New England
women Of tho period. Anon
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