The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-07-02
I'll I'd eno-EFiasouiiiin o Element III
Massa chusetts Still Lives.


In the early part of March last we publish
ed an account OF a regular prize fight between
two women in suburb of Boston. The de-
tails Of the affair were shocking to human
nature and disgusting in the extreme 1t
was to DC hoped that the notoriety given to
the abominable spectacle would have so
shocked the iemo-masculine element in the
moral region in which it occurred as to have
deferred ii from encouraging another exhi-
bition of the kind. But it seems that this
hope was not TO be realized. BY a despatch
from Springfield, Mass, received yesterday,
we learn that prize fight occurred near that
city, which was witnessed by three hundred
spectators, ''one-third of whom were wo-
men,"
Without stopping to inquire into tile char
acter of the latter portion of this delcCtable
audience, VIC feel justified, in view Of the
number of women's rights, female suffrage
and other strong-minded wonen's conven-
tions recently held ut the Hub" to put q
certain Interpretation upon the whole dis
graceful affair. 1t affords another evidence
of the downward tendency of female morali-
ty in section of the country that has plum
ed itself Upon its Righteousness that has pre-
sumed to set itself up as the eXemplar for all
that it is chaste modest, pure and NOBLE in
the feminine character; that has sent mission
aries among the henighted heather for the
purpose Of proifering the cup of grace to their
lips and instiiing the sentiments of sanity
love aud virtue into their hearts; that has
filled the schoolhouses of the South with
New England schoolmarms, to teach the lit
tie niggers their A, Il, C's, and to learn them
for the first time who their Maker was, rs
well as to impress upon their delicate under
standings the now well established axiom
that "a white man is as good rs niger, if
he only behaves himself" Alas that il
should he so. Alas that the sentiments of
the noble-hcarted nlatrons of the Revolution
of the the days of the Adamses, the Han
cocks, the 0tises- should be obliged to give
way before the Attiian career of batch of
bespectaced old spinsters and burnt-grass
widows who are now endeavoring to mould
the pure thoughts of the females of the rising
generation into hideous masculinity, and
to encourage them to aspire to the places and
to the prerogatives, and to don the toggery
of those who, with q few honorable exceptions,
are entitled to wear the breeches in this our
day. Verify, things are looking bad for NOR
atty in Massachusetts.
Suppose Gilmore sets about getting up
u jubilee in honor of the return Of moral
ity to New England? The day may be far
distant, but that's no matter 1t shows the
necessity OF beginning the undertaking all
the sooner. Let the railying cries be, mo
more female prize fights in Massachusetts"
"Hurrah for the return of morality to New
England" Seriously. as the case now stands
the authorities should take earnest and deci-
ded steps to stop those inhuman exhibitions
it is degrading to beasts to call them beastly-
else the consequences will be lamentable not
only to the morals of3be New England men
but to the virtue ofthe New England women
of the period. Amen IN. Y. Herald.