The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-18
An OUTRAGE.
Young Ladies Not safe on Our Streets.
The Negroes Excited and Threaten Ven.
gcance.

We have received a communication, which
we append below, detailing the circumstances
of the cowardly attack on one of the young
ladies attending the Upper High School. per-
petrated by several negroes on the street, and
this in city noted for the absence of any
thing looking in the least like any trespass
upon that respect due those Of the fairer sex.
We confess we feel our gorge rise at the Pc
rusal Of the letter. A modest girl, unattended,
and thinking only of her studies, was quietly
vending her way homewards, when she was
rudely addressed by negro, in terms so in
dicative of his fendish desires as to show how
villainous his intentions might be did not fear
of merited punishment deter him. Hardly
has this brute been passed ere others o. the
same class are met, and the timid, shrinking
girl is again subjected to another insult.
This Is very serious matter. Nowhere in
the civilized world more than in New Orleans
is there q higher regard or more knightly
homage paid to woman, and we are safe in
saying that there is hardly single citizen
here who would not willingly lay down his
life in the defense Of their honor. Knowing
this, we take this occasion to tell these vii
famous dogs that they may expect short
shrift if they are ever detected insulting
ladies on our streets. Let every street be
patrolled, business closed, and the wheels Of
government stopped, but what our wives and
daughters can in perfect security go where
they want and when they want.
The young ladies of the Upper High School
are deserving of much praise for their initia-
ton of this movement against mixed schools,
and it behooves us to shield and protect them
from any dangers or insults on our thorough
fares. Let this matter be looked after and ac-
ton taken at once.
To the Editor of the Bulletin:
Dear Sri wish to inform you of an oc-
currence which took place on jackson street
to-day. have young relative attending
the Girls Upper High School. As she was
returning home about noon, when jackson
street is very lonely, she was insulted five
different times by negroes-each time by diff
ferent parties. To convince you that it was
no childish sensitiveness which made her
imagine an insult, will enumerate few Of
the circumstances and leave you to judge.
First, as she was crossing on the corner Of
Jackson and St. Charles, she saw two negro
men standing on the corner. As she Jared
them one of them remarked, "Ah here's
my gal, and the other said, with a wrathy
expression, 90! if I could only get my
hands on her."
She very quietly passed them by, appear
ing not to notice them, but had not gone far
when she was met by another burly negro,
who actually took the trouble to cross the
sidewalk for the purpose of jostling her rude
ly against the fence. And still little further
on she passed two negro women who ap-
peared to be discussing the rejection Of the
negro girls at the Upper High School, and as
she passed they clenched their fists and, with
blazing eyes, remarked "There goes one Of
them"
The child became SO frightened and weak
mot without cause, you will admit, alone as
she was,, that she had to stop at the house of
an acquaintance long enough to recover
strength sufficient to go home.
1 ask you in the name of humanity, ought
this to be tolerated in a city like New Or
leans? suppose the young ladies of that
school have become objects of hate to the me-
groes for their very spirited refusal to admit
the negro girls into their school on last Mon
day Nevertheless this ought to be published
Just to warn parents and guardians of the risk
their daughters and sisters run in going and
coming from school unattended. Hoping you
will give this place in your valuable col
umns, an, most respectfully
INTERESTED.