New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-19

A Criminal Misrepresei itatiOn

tanned the following announceme int under
the head of deaths:
In this city, sixth instant, very tuddenly
| Eta H., daughter OF Captain Natl ianiei and
| Abbie X. Barstow, of Hanover, Aiassachu-
setts; twenty years three months.
Later reports disclosed the fact That Miss
Barstow was a school teacher in the little
town of Canton, fourteen miles fret IN Boston,
and that the scons of unwashed, unterritied
| Democrats, abused and insulted her, and
finally threw at her a volley of stones. She
| had been suffering from constitutional dis
ease, and the excitement created by this
gross attempt to intict personal Injury as
gravated the disease to such an extent, that
feeling seriously Ill, she took the ears and
| went to her friends in Boston, where she
| died.
The Picayituc. for no good purposes, but
10 pander to depraved taste hostile to
Boston, published an editorial Yesterday
. morning on the subject, from which we
make the following extract:
Eta X. Barstow was young woman of
small figure and feeble health, a type of the
lean, pale underground which rekults from
| the entire neglect of the physical develop
ment in the exclusive culture OF the nerves.
the taste and the brain. Miss E,tta was
| teacher in one of the public schopis of Bos-
ton. sickIv blossom on the trte of New
| England civilization. but with nj uch actlv-
| ity OF mind and no small devel lopment of
viii. She began about the first df Septem-
Der to teach the Pleasant STR let Public
Boys School Of Boston. The BPston boys
of the school had conquered tht lady who
preceded her, and compelled hel' to resign.
| Miss Eta succeeded to the pdsltlon and
being q teacher by vocation. she Resolved to
conduct the school, and rule 1t, as she
thought herself in duty bound.
About one week after her instd dllation she
| rang her morning bell to summon her pupils.
Several boys heard, but did ndt heed the
| tinkling invitation, and refused to leave
their play Whereupon Mis- BarstOw
closed and locked the door ag ainst them,
resolved not to cast the pearls OF lnstruc-
ton before snch unappreciattve swine.
The gentle youths demonstrated 10y throw
| lug brickbats and paving stones through
the windows and against the door, but she
still refused them admittance. At dinner
time, upon leaving the school, four of the
boys pelted her with stones, intiictng III
jures from which she died tile next day.
| Our authority for the facts Of which we
give this brief summary is the Boston
| Transcript.
The writer of this rejoinder is proud that
he was born in Massachusetts. and will en-
deavor to defend Boston by the declaration
that every statement made by the Picdyune
is incorrect, and that it can not quote the
transcript as authority for the facts i'll that
| brief summary.
In the first place, Miss Barstd W was not
type of the lean, pale undergfowth which
results from the neglect of the physical de
| velOpment in the exclusive culture OF the
nerves the taste and the brain. Her home
was III the little country town Of Hanover,
twenty-five miles from Boston, separated
| only by narrow river from Marshteld the
| place where the immortal Webster
! lived and died. The air of Han lover is pure,
the temptations to physical development
! and culture numerous and frequent, and
1 .'sicklv blossoms on the tree of New
! England civilization" do not abound there.
| Miss Barstow was not a school teacher in
| Pleasant street. Boston, and the Transcript
! did not state that she was. On the con
! trary, she was teacher of youth in the
shoe manufacturing town Of Canton, where
| the unterriied, uncouth Democracy dwell
| and bear sway.
| Miss Barstow was not hit by the stones
which the sons of these rough Democrats
| threw. at her as the following report of the
coroner's verdict (the inquest being held in
Hanoverl, which we copy from the Boston
Herad very clearly shows:
| At the inquest held on the body of Miss
Eta ii. Barstow, last Saturday, the verdict
rendered by the COrOners jury was: That
! the deceased came to her death primarily
| of diabetes, but that her death was accele
rated by severe shock to her nervous sys-
TEN. caused by the characterization of her
| pupils. and by the personal attack made
! upon her by John Coffee and others, whose
names are to the jury unknown" The
! AUTOPSY discovered no marks OF violence on
| the head and neck of the deceased and the
| evidence of the physicians was that the ex-
| ctement and fright attendant on the assault
! fastened the death which WAS in all proba-
| bility quite near, the deceased being weak
ened by disease.
The Picoya,ae says further, in the cdito-
rial to which we have alluded:
The life of the deceased was no more
valuable than those of myIiads of New
England .ills. A murder i'll that region.
even when attended with brutal and savage
adiuncts, Is nothing so new as to require
our special notice But the slaughter of
feeble young woman by boys not over thir-
teen years old is something peculiarly
atrocious.
Such is the fruit of Boston culture. 1t
indicates an absolute want of galantry and
respect for woman. 1t shows an entire alb
sence of consideration for feminine weak
ness and feminine character The boys who
perpetrated this crime had no proper feel
ing toward their mothers, their sisters, or
any of the sex. They were perverted and
base in all their impulses and ideas. The
school in which they were reared must be
wicked, hollow, false and hypocritical. The
society capable of such productions must
he essentially perverse and unnatural.
Their crime would be impossible in any
other city than one thoroughly poisoned
with false teaching. In old Athens, the
sacred court of last appeal, the awful Areo-
bagus of unsalaried and unbribed jurlsts
condemned to death and executed little
boy for the cruelty of putting out the eyes OF
a bird wantouly, regarding him as an incur
able monster. unworthy of life and OF most
pernicious example.
Boston is the modern Athens by self
assertion, but with all its loud, demonstra-
tive and Impudent assumption, its boasted |
civilization is retrograde. 1t is whitened |
sepuichre full of denominations. There are |
blasphemous mountebanks i'll her pTlpits, |
corrupt and bribed criminals III her seats OF |
justice. white ylOvcd culprits Ill her market |
nIaces ieweicd harridans in her social cir |
cles. and hypocrites everywhere. Boston |
politics. Boston theology, Boston literature,
Boston philosophy, and Boston morals, are
all ON a level Yet Boston assumes to give |
ideas to the age, laws to the republic, and
moral guidance to the race!