The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-31
A SOUTHERN CURSE IN A NORTHERN
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A painful and indeed horrible story wa
It sent all over the country on Saturday frou
g the environs of Boston, upon which it is "a
Q from agreeable to US to dwell, yet which car
d rles with it lesson too important to be over
looked. young girl, child indeed, jus
s budding from childhood into girlhood, ant
, belonging to the very best class of society il
e Massachusetts,, was assaulted almost within
7 hearing of her fathers house, on her xetur,
> from an afternoon Of pleasant and innocen
exeraise, by negro ruffian, hideously abused
robbed, and left to die in the woods Tn.
l poor girl had strength and will enough left t.
, reach her home and make the maddenine
story known.
hot pursuit was instantly organized, and
to the credit both of the police and of the
J citizens OF Eastern Massachusetts let it be re.
corded, the atrociOus scOundrel who had com.
mltted the deed was arrested before mid.
night. He now lies in Jail. His victim, it is
} SAID, IS likely to recover, and there is, OF
course, every reason to expect that the most
extreme punishment the laws will permit to
be inflicted in such case will ere long over
take him. How wretchedly out of propor-
ton any punishment whatever which the
laws will permit civilized men to intiict in
such case will be to the wrong done by the
criminal, we need not harrow I'D the feel
lngs OF our readers by demonstrating at
length.
1t is literally impossible for the most vivid
Imagination to overstate the blight and
misery brought upon fair young life by such
an Outrage: The pathos with which Charles
Lamb has invested the unhappy fate of Rosa
mond Gray would fall short of the bald,
calamity precipitated in an instant by the
bestial ferocity of a human brute upon ma
lures refined by the most careful culture and
the most genial influences of the highest
forms OF human civilization. Precisely in
proportion to the refinement and generosity
Of his character will be the intensity of the
longing with which every masculine man
on reading of such crime must
feel himself thrill for the exc
cution upon the criminal not of what we
commonly and tamely call 'justice," but of
tnat summary and terrible vengeance which
in such cases is the only appropriate shadow
and image of an absolutely unattainable JUS
tice. We shall not insult the manhood of
Massachusetts by limiting doubt that when
this news became known in any circle of Bos-
ton life not demoralized by the ghoul-like
and emasculating influences Of the vulgar fam
atheism whereof the dead Sumner and the
living Wendell Philips were the fitting types,
men hearing it set their teeth hard and lonoed
for one hour of Kansas with its hasty ropes.
or OF Texas with its peremptory cart and
rifle.
And now with all the men in Massachusetts
who felt this divine rage, this sacred and virile
wrath in the defense of helplessness against |
tiendish brutality, Of gracious and refined |
innocence against foul land groveling crime, |
tlngllng hot in their veins onSaturday last as |
they read the miserable story of Judge Low
ellis outraged home, but do themselves and |
their country the wholesome service of re-
tlecting that this very horrible thing at which
Massachusetts stands to-day aghast, has been
stalking for years past by night and by day
over the length and breadth of all the South
ern States OF this Union No doubt there are
many men at the South, hot of spirit and
slow to learn, who have once and again
since the close of the war manifested
a disposition to deal over-harshly with
the race which they and their fathers
before them, and our fathers before us. as
well as theirs, were trained to regard and to
treat as inferior by the Divine appointment
10 the ruling race Of Europe, OF America
and OF the world. But the vast body of the
Southern whites are Of another strain. Thew
accepted the results Of the civil war honestly
and manfully. They knew that the majority
of the Southern negroes were neither in
themselves savage and cruel, nor disposed to
i've on il-terms with their white fellow-citi- {
sens. But they knew too, as they are in !
III ignorant and long brutalized races, the
over passions are especially strong, and the :
Intellectual forces by which the lower pas =
lions, If they are to be controlled at all, Z
must be controlled, are especially weak in \
ne negroes And they looked forward !
men with peculiar anxiety to the S
Increase at the South OF precisely such intol- 2
rable offences against society as this which
las just desolated one of the best of New Eng )
and homes, when they found that the bands n
i public order at the South were to be sud- b
eniy relaxed BY an ignorant, passionate and :
dishonest political interference of the North =
q the affairs of Southern society. Their bit I
Or anticipations have been more than real g
zed. Naturally enough the consequence has g
cen that maddening outrages have provoked P
gnal and summary chastisements. If the lie
zen OF Massachusetts will but put the case 6;
the south to themselves to-day in the light N
hlch is thrown upon it by this awful Incl b
emit at their own doors, the future NAV easily q
made far better than five years ago It 1
lreatened ever again to be for them. for the y
outh, tor the Republic, and for the negro q
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