The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1869-08-04
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST H. 1862
from ths New York Herald.E
fhe Fem0. Masculine Element Ii
Massachusetts, Still Lives.

| From ths New York Herald.t
fhe Femo. Masculine Element in
Massachusetts, Still Lives. g
In the early part of March last
we published an occount of q reg
| ular prize fight between two wo.
men in the suburbs Of Boston. The
details of the affair was shocking to
human nature and disgusting in the
extreme. It was to be hoped that
the notoriety given to the abomi-
nable spectacle would have so
| shocked the femo-masculine ele-
ment in the moral region in which
it occurred as to have deferred it
from encouraging another exhi-
bition of the kind. But it seems
that this hope was not to be re-
allied. By dispatch from Spring
field, Mass, received yesterday,
we learn that o prize fight oc-
cured near the city, which was
witnessed by three hundred spec
tators, "one-third of whom were
women"
Without stopping to enquire
into the character of the latter
portion of this delectable audience,
we feel justified, in view of the
number of women's rights female
suffrage and other strong-minded
women's conventions recently
held at the 'tHub," to put a GER
tain Interpretation upon the whole
disgraceful affair. It affords an
other evidence of the downward
tendency of female morality in q
section of the country that has
plumed itself upon it's righteous
ness that has presumed to set
itself up as the exemplar 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 their lips, and instilling
the sentiments Of sanity love and
virtue into their hearts that has
filed the schoolhouses Of the South
with New England school marms,
to teach the>lttle niggers their A,
B, C's and to learn them for the
/ first time who their Maker was,
as we'll as to impress upon their
delicate understandings the now
we'll established axiom that a
white man is as good as niger,
if he only behaves himself" Alas !
that it sbonld be so. Alas ! that
the sentiments of the noble heart
ed matrons of the Revolution-of
the days of the Adamses, the Han
cocks, the Otises-should be
obliged to give way before Attil-
an career of a batch ofbespectacled
old spinsters and burnt-grass wild
ows, who are now endeavoring to
mould the pure thoughts of the
young females of the rising gene
ration into hideous masculinity,
and to encourage them to aspire
to the places and to the preroga-
tives, and to don the toggery Of
those who, with few honorable
exceptions, are entitled 10 wear
the breeches in this our day.
Verify, things are looking bad
for morality in Massachusetts,
Suppose Gilmore sets about get
ting up a jubilee in honor of the
return of morality to New Eng
land? The day may be far dis
tant, but that's no matter. II
shows the necessity Of beginning
the undertaking all the sooner.
Let the rallying cries be mo
more female prize fights in Mas
sachusetts," "Hurrah for the re-
turn Of morality to New England"
Seriously, as the case now stands,
tho authorities should take earn
est and decided steps to stop
these inhuman exhibitions-it is
degrading to beasts to call them
beastly-else the consequences
will be lamentable not only to the
morals of New England men but
to the virtue of the New England
women Of the period. Amen