New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-09
SO FAIR AND YET so FRAIL.

Mrs Laura Fair, the woman recently
tried and convicted of the murder OF
Judge Crittenden, in California, is both
tempting and dangerous, according to the
facts developed in her trial, when free to
practice her demoralizing arts and blan-
| diloquence. She is described to be fac
smile of the following picture of harlot,
drawn by Pollock:
OF comely form she was and fair of face;
and underneath her eyelids sat kind of
witching sorcery, that nearer drew whoever
with unguarded look beheld A dress of
gaudy hue loosely attired her loneliness;
her air and manner frank. and seeming free
of disguise; her song enchanting; and her
words which sweetly dropt, as honey from
the comb, most large of promise, still
prOphesying days of new delight, and rap
turous nights of undecaying joy. And in
her hand, where'er she went, she held
radiant cup that seemed of nectar full-and
by her side danced fairy delusive Hope. The
fool pursued enamored, and the wise ex-
perienced man who reasoned much and
thought, was sometimes seen LAYING his
wisdom down. and vieing with the STRIPPING
in the chase. Nor wonder thoui for she
was really fair; decked to the very taste of
neSn ana DIO0d.
The above is most truthful picture of
the one $50 fair and yet so frail," who
won Judge Crittenden the wise, expert
enced man." from his faithful wife, to
murder him in cold blood when the lewd
one found returning sense of true love
and decepcy had caused him to cling to
his wife, Instead of rushing to the arms of
her who had lured him from his marriage
VOWS. The new doctrine of ''soul-love"
pronounced by this bold, bad woman to
be superior to any welded love, is of so
sensual and degrading nature as to be
most obnoxious to the virtuous, refined
and elevated of womankind. The women
who admire the conduct of Mrs Fair and
her "soul-love doctrine are not fit to
become wives, for they are not of the kind
calculated to make home happy; not cal
culated to rear up family of children ii
the way they should go. Such women, if
married, are not apt to be satisfied with
home duties, and, generally, bring shame
and disgrace upon all connected with
them. "Free-love," "soul-love," and
love of duties that have long been re-
garded as appertaining to man only are
conditions that are aspired to by the
itinerant women of the present day.
They are not only ready to elbow men in
all the avocations and duties of life, but
are anxious to lead in the great battle of
life; are clamoring to enter the field of
politics. Nor will they be content, it is
thought, when clothed with suffrage. |
They, to be equal with man, will then
aspire to be soldiers, and armies of we'll |
drilled amazons will no noubt be marched |
to the tented field. That will be grand |
sight in this civilized age. Women are
already becoming as expert with dan
gerous weapons as men, as is proven in
the case of Mrs. Fair, and it is no I'M
common affair to hear of their taking
life.
But the conduct of women like Mrs.
L al LlAOoC WIZ W Ot luG
equals of men in all the duties of life, can
1ot affect the great body of wives, mothers
md daughters of this nation further than
% do personal injustice. This was done
% Mrs. Crittenden, the estimable wife of
he man whom Mrs. Fair SO barbarously
lew in the very presence of both wife and
laughter. Every honest woman will con-
iemn the outrageous conduct of Mrs.
fair toward the wife of Judge Crit
enden. The pretense set up by Mrs.
fair that ''soul-love," as she styled
Ter connection with the husband
# another woman, gave her a SUI
,erior claim to him over that of the
wife, is SO revolving that it at once de-
'rives her of all sympathy from the yir-
uous of her own sex. She may plead