The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-11-25

to learn a trade. She boards among strangers
and is thrown into strange society. She is
affectionate and eonhding, and, like all Others,
feels the need of friend and confdant. And
if there is any one who longs for friend in
whom to contide, it is q motherles5 girl in a
strange city. Her beauty attracts the atten-
ton of man whose heart is not as pure as
hers, and whose motives are not as good.
He gains her confidence and wins her affection.
S looks into his face for sympathy, turns TO
to him for counsel, and leans on his arm for
protection. With her all is sincerity. With
him all is deceit. At length his designs are
accomplished, and he leaves her heartbroken
and alone. She comes to a strange city and
takes up her abode at a hotel. Alone, and un-
protected, she goes to the depot time and
again TO meet the object OF her affection, but
he does not come. At length, becoming salts
fed that he is a traitor, heartbroken and des-
pondent, she lies down and dies And now 1
ASK, who is the murderer, the man or the
maiden? Upon whom will the judgments OF
Heaven rest most severely, and upon whom
ought the maled.ctlons Of society to fall? So
ciety is all wrong in its methods of denuncia-
ton, and virtue will never abound till its base
is changed. When a woman falls, no matter
what her surroundings were, every mother,
and wife, and daughter, looks upon her with
contempt. She is driven from society, loaded
with curses, and hastened down to the dens Of
infamy and shame, to weep her life away,
while the heartless man who stole her atfec-
tions and robbed her Of her innocence, Is re-
ceived into our houses, sits at our tables, walks
with our sisters, and marries our daughters,
and not one word Is said against him. "Oh,
the offence is rank aud smells to Heaven" "
In this case all my indignation is aroused. All
the feelings Of a father and brother come up,
and my sympathies are stirred to their utmost
depth.
If any man, single or married, young or
middle aged, has wlllfully betrayed this maid
en-, and brought her to an untimely grave, as
a father, a brother, and citizen, / say, let the
marx of Cain rest upon himl Let every house
in jackson be closed against him; let every
citizen point the finger Of scorn at him and
wherever his foot shall pollute the soil Of this
State by its aceursed tread, may the earth cry
out, vengeance is mine, and will repay,
saith the Lord" And never letlhim be taken
into society again until he has heartily re-
pented OF his sins, confessed them bsfore God
and man, and brought forth fruits meet for
repentance.
We talk of the corporation Of our city-of
the seventy-fve or one hundred abandoned
women who, like the Cpas, poison all who
come within their reach. We hurl our anath-
enias at them with a vengsance-hunt them
from ono ward to another; and it is right we
should; we cannot say and do too much. But
what about the men who sustain them with
their money and their patronage, and hold
them here in our midst? They walk our
streets with impunity, and sit in our midst
unrebuked. 1t is ali wrong Shall the weak,
kind. hearted, conhding girl, be ruined and
trampled in the dust by the strong man, whom
God made to be her protector-and she bear
the blame and he 90 unpunished2 "Forbid it,
Almighty God" Let the heavier Judgment
fall on the gui tier person. Let every mother
look upon him with contempt Let every sis
ter shun him as she would a viper. Let every
wife spurn him from her presence. Let the
bootblack and picker look down upon him
eontemptuously. Let fathers and brothers
quit his society. And let the pulpit cry:
"Without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whore
mongers, and murderers, and idolstors, and
whosoever loveth and maketh heP'
Mothers, while you teach your daughters to
hate sin, and to walk in the paths Of virtue,
teach them also to look with pitying eye up
on their own sex who fell in their youth.
Teach them to reach out their helping hand to
help them up, and thereby restore them if
possible, considering themselves, lest they al
so be tempted" A kind word helping hand,
may return to the paths Of virtue those who,
had they been surrounded with circumstances
like your own, would perchance, have been as
Yirtuous dnd as good.
Speak kindly, it is better far
To rule by love than fear;
Speak kindly, let no harsh word mar
The good you might do here.
Speak kindly to the youthful ones,
They'll have enough the bear,
Pass through this world as best they may
,Tis full of anxious care.
Speak kindly to the erring ones,
They must have toiled in vain;
Perchance unkindness made them so
Oh, win them back again.
Young men, have you sisters2 o, guard
them csrefullyr point out to them those who
they must fear and shun; and go yourselves
not into the society Of those with whom you
dare not trust your sister; and for the love you
you bear your own; be kind to the sisters of
other men. Deceive them not. Trife not
With their confidence and their affections.
Sod has given them to us to make our homes
pleasant, to smooth down our rougher natures
ind to make this world paradise.
0, when they are robbed Of their innooense,
md their prospects frightened, all heaven
Feaps, and earth groans in agony. God grant
hat we may be gathered to that land where
he hand OF the destroyer never comes for
TesusS saks. Amen. 4S@l EW