The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-03-03
THE sEDUoER AND HIS VICTIM.

TH6 ShDUUEh AND Ills VlUTlM.
Elswhere we publish correspond
ence from Jackson county, containing
al. account of one of the most Infamous
transactions on record. 1t is case
peculiarly aggravatfng, and one which
merits the early and prompt action OF
the courts of that section, and We be-
ieve the sterling integrity of that To-
cality will not permit the guilty fiend
to go unwhipt of justice. A careful
perusal of the letters will satisfy the
reader that there can be no doubt of
their truth; andifany proofs were want
ing, events which have transpired
subsequent to the date of the letters
would sufficiently demonstrate their
correctness. A telegram from jack
sonville under date of the 25th ultimo,
s(last Saturday, } states that on that day
a shooting affray occurred on the main
street of that town, between Valen-
tine S. Rolls and James ID. Fay, in
which neither of the parties received
serious injury. It seems that Rolls
approached Fay and accused him of
the seduction of his daughter, and
told him that one of them mcst die
Rolls firing first, the ball striking the
guard of Fay's pistol and preventing
its use. Rolls fired three shots. one
of which passed through the pocket
book in the breast pocket of Fay's
coat, lodging against a rib, but doing
no injury. After the shooting, Rolls
mounted his horse quietly and rode
home.
We learn from private sources that
the people of Jacksonville are highly
1ncensed against the base seducer, and
that the most rigid investigation will
be entered into so as to bring him to
an account for his villainous conduct
But, If the courts of the land shall
tall to vlndicate outraged humanity
and punish the offender, let all decent
people SO treat the inhuman monster
as to drive him from their midst and
cause him to hide his base carcass in
some faraway cline, or in some sink of
lniQuity in our larger cities where his
kind can exc out miserable subsist-
ence for their vile services and gloat
their foul passions without doing yio-
ience to public decency and private
virtue.
And that poor, unhappy grill What
heart so cold but could bleed for her
woes? What eye SO fearless but could
weep for her wrongs? What soul so
ungenerous but could mourn for her
sorrows2 Thus to have her pure
heart won by the honeyed words of
the lascivious wretch until he gained
her person for the basest purpose and
robbed her of that brightest jewel in
the malden's casket-her yirtuei and
then to be driven by her shame
to stable, and there, among the
beasts, to endure alone the cutting
pangs OF virgin maternity; and then
wrapping the offspring cf her shame
In her scanty robes, fee like Hagar of
oia TO die IN the wilderness, where
she was found, crouched down under
the waving, moaning winter trees that
were singing a sad requiHm over her
unhappy fate, with the chill blasts of
wind piercing her scanty covering and
slowly freezing the life out of her suf-
fering bodyl The very angels, lean
ing over the battlements of heaven
must have turned aside and went at
the heart-rending sight, and the fallen
malden's sufferings must have then
won forgiFing sigh from the rery
throne of the Son of Mani
Shall We not cast the veil of charity
and even OF oblivion over her down
1au' and look upon her rather as one
pasely betrayed to commit a sin By her
vile master and pretended lover. than
as one who willingly andg gladly court
90 such sad and sorrowful fatee-
Heaven knows, she was more sinned
against than SHINING, and merits the
most piteous sympathy of every man
and woman having spark Of charity
their natures.
And we trust her friends will deal
with her, gently, and, by kind words
and tender services, bind up her bro
ken heart and make her feel less keen
~ her great wrongs and sorrowful
sufferings.
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