The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-09-06
HUNT1NGTON's CIVILIZATION.
A Singing Letter from q Lady on thl
Kelsey Outrage.

Kelsey Outrage.
To TIE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:- !,
we are fond OF Boosting OF our civilization as II
We as q nation, had reached that high state OF
moral and political culture that we may challenged
the admiration ot<he world and call upon all other
peoples to behold our eminence and initiate our
example.
The more civilized a nation becomes the moro
polite, kindly rational 1t becomes II Is humand
in the high, large sense Il Is dominated by the,
higher sentiments pertaining to man as man. and
not by those lower and violent PASSIONS
which men share in common with tina
brute. The individual members OF highly civil
tied nation will be Christ-hke. Order, refinement
ana sympathy will characterize their relations
with each other. Vulgar, sordid greed for wealth.,
selfish ambition for distinction at the expense Of
others Will disappear but the question is too vasti
TO be discussed IN communication SO brief as
design this TO be.
am led to address you first, because OF your
temperate editorial in regard to the Of that!
most unhappy man OF men," young Kelsey OF
huntington !; IT, and because OF the singular dis
ment OF your correspondent or Interviewer. He
asks. 'Dld Charles Kelsey deserve to be tarred and
ieathered ~ and then goes on gravely to afirm
that he did.
1t makes the blood run cold to hear such thing
affirmed in journal claiming to be the greatest 01
the age: q journal renowned for the enterprise or
its proprietor and declaring that 1t Is the exponent
really trnef Can we Be SO little civilized that an
atrooity, which would shame the Dark Ages, can be-
perpetrated IN community, and that atrocity pro-
n0unced by the members OF that c0mnunityI
"Served him r.ghtY" What must be the Standard
OF morals IN that community OF Huntington what
must be the state OF public opinion in that COM
munty OF Huntington, when such ver-
dict Is renderedp What must be the humanity,
Of that people Of Huntington, when gang.
OF cruel, brutal desperadoes can assail An unpro-
tected man and horribly maltreat him, and not q
single man or woman interfere In his defence 2
What can be the kind OF wOmanhood engenderedi
In that town OF Huntington, where an old woman
upon the sunernQs aud cOntumely heaped upon q
human being, and they can look on and aughY
Would any man dare to say to pure true-hearteds
woman, Come see what We have done to please
you" unless they knew she was OF the same mind
Us themselves was one with them in thought.
| feeling and civilization? Would not any true
w0manly woman have been overwhelmed with
| compassion, dumb with horror at that most pitt
| able sight OF human being, no matter who or
| what he was, so tortured on that cold. gloomy.
| November nightf
| This outrage is the comment upon huntingdon
civilization. 1t is not the thing alone tina. speaks
out in this ultimate crime; 1t Is only the climax to
existing antecedents 1t Is the Outspeaking Of
internal opinions: 1t Is the voice OF what had long
before potentially made such crime possible.
said to belong to the best class in Huntington-tO
be Its churchgoers, It's representatives. intelli>
gence culture and morality So be It, They have
given the gauge OF their civilization. Shame on q
people so depraved so stolidly wicked so savagely
cruel In this nineteenth century,
ELIZABETH CAKES SMITH.
PATCHOGUE, L. L. Sept. 4, 1873.